Indiana Fever close season with 18-game losing streak
The Fever finished the season with a 5-31 record, tying the WNBA mark for most regular-season losses.
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Indiana Fever fire Stanley as coach after 2-7 start
Marianne Stanley brought a Hall of Fame resume to the Fever bench, but her teams won just 14 games in a little more than two seasons.
Fever take two Baylor players, former Indiana Miss Basketball in draft
The Fever went into Monday night’s three-round draft with seven picks overall and ended up with two players from Baylor and one each from Louisville, Stanford, Jackson State, South Carolina and Indiana University.
Fever trade McCowan to Wings, giving team four first-round WNBA picks
The Fever got the fourth and sixth overall picks from the Wings in the deal announced Tuesday. Indiana already had the Nos. 2 and 10 picks, and would be the first WNBA team to make four first-round picks in the same draft if it keeps and uses all of them.
Tamika Catchings steps down as Fever’s GM, VP of basketball operations
Catchings has not been able to duplicate the success she had as a player in her role as an executive with the Indiana Fever. The team has named former coach Lin Dunn to replace Catchings on an interim basis.
Pacers announce deal that puts a different insurance company’s name on fieldhouse
The 18,000-seat venue downtown is now called Gainbridge Fieldhouse, thanks to a multiyear sponsorship deal between Pacers Sports & Entertainment and Indianapolis-based insurance holding firm Group One Thousand One LLC, the parent of Gainbridge Insurance Agency LLC.
Google signs deal with WNBA to help champion women’s sports
Twenty-five WNBA games will be televised on ABC and ESPN in celebration of the league’s 25th season, with Google as the presenting sponsor.
Fever delay trip for WNBA launch after 2 players test positive for COVID
The women’s pro basketball league announced on Monday that seven of its 137 players have tested positive. Fever officials confirmed two of them played for Indiana.
WNBA plans to play 2020 season in Florida starting in late July
Players would receive their entire salaries for the year despite playing a schedule that’s only about two-thirds the length of the 36-game one that was supposed to start May 15.
WNBA to hold college draft as planned in April, virtually
The regular season isn’t set to begin until May 15, so the pandemic has not affected daily operations as much as other professional leagues. The WNBA, however, has been evaluating its schedule, with training camps slated to begin April 26.
Fever’s Catchings headlines women’s hoops Hall of Fame class
Tamika Catchings won collegiate and Olympic titles before spending her entire 15-year professional career with the Indiana Fever and leading the team to its lone WNBA title in 2012.
WNBA’s 8-year labor deal to hike average salary to $130,000
The WNBA and its union announced a tentative eight-year labor deal Tuesday that will allow top players to earn more than $500,000 while the average annual compensation will surpass six figures for the first time.
Fever name longtime WNBA assistant as head coach
Marianne Stanley, 65, is a member of the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame who won an NCAA title in 1985 and was WNBA coach of the year in 2002.
Indiana Fever fire Pokey Chatman after three seasons as coach, GM
In three years at the helm, Chatman compiled a 28-74 record, including a 13-21 mark this year—an improvement from the team’s 6-28 record a year ago.
Fever to play home games at Hinkle during Bankers Life renovations
The Indiana Fever will play at Hinkle Fieldhouse on the Butler University campus for two-plus seasons while Bankers Life Fieldhouse undergoes its massive renovation, Pacers Sports & Entertainment announced Thursday.
Fever’s Wheeler named MVP in All-Star debut
Scoring 25 points, Erica Wheeler of the Indiana Fever on Saturday became the first undrafted player to win the WNBA All-Star Game’s MVP award.
Expanding roles keep Catchings busy in post-retirement
Nearly three years since Tamika Catchings played her final basketball game, the 39-year-old former star is establishing herself in a variety of new roles, including one as a contestant on “American Ninja Warrior.”
At year 20, Indiana Fever in ‘rebuild mode’
The Fever are coming off a couple of dismal seasons, with just nine wins in 2017 and a franchise-worst six last year. New leadership will be at the helm to try to pull off the turnaround.
IBJ Podcast: Funding the CIB and the Pacers’ 25-year, $800 million deal
Podcast host Mason King talks with IBJ reporters Lindsey Erdody and Mickey Shuey about the legislation the General Assembly passed to help fund a 25-year, $800 million deal with the Indiana Pacers.
Fever, summer events would get boxed out by $360M Fieldhouse project
The Indiana Fever would have to find a new venue in which to play home games for the better part of three seasons, due to the extensive fieldhouse renovation and expansion planned from 2020 to 2022.