2014 Indiana Fever season

The 2014 WNBA season was the 15th season for the Indiana Fever of the Women's National Basketball Association. This was Fever's seventh and final season under head coach, Lin Dunn. In the preseason, Dunn announced her plans to step down at the end of the 2014 season. Their season tipped off on May 16.

Fever star forward, Tamika Catchings missed the first seventeen games of the 2014 season due to a back injury she described as a "pinched disc." During that time without Catchings, the Fever went 8–9. She returned to play on July 5 against the San Antonio Stars in a close 70–71 loss with Catchings contributing 6 points, 7 rebounds, and 4 assists in 20 minutes played for the Fever.

The Fever finished the season with a record of 16–18, which placed them second in the Eastern Conference and fifth overall. In the 2014 WNBA playoffs, the Fever swept the Washington Mystics in the conference semi-finals. In the conference finals against the Chicago Sky, the Fever took game 1 at home but ultimately lost the series 1–2.

Draft

Transactions

Front office and coaching

Trades

Free agency

Re-signed / extensions

Additions

Subtractions / Unsigned

Roster

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Depth

Schedule

Preseason

|- bgcolor=#fcc | 1 | May 6 | Washington | L 63–80 | Natasha Howard (14) | Victoria Macaulay (7) | Briann January (4) | Bankers Life Fieldhouse<br>4,275 | 0–1 |- bgcolor=#fcc | 2 | May 7 | @ Washington | L 80–81 | Marissa Coleman (21) | Natasha Howard (7) | Layshia Clarendon (5) | Capital One Arena<br>2,720 | 0–2 |- bgcolor=#fcc | 3 | May 9 | @ Chicago | L 66–73 | Karima Christmas (16) | Lynetta Kizer (10) | Sydney Carter (3) | ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex | 0–3 |- bgcolor=#cfc | 4 | May 11 | Phoenix | W 75–60 | Natasha Howard (16) | Lynetta Kizer (7) | Clarendon, Coleman (3) | ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex<br>3,194 | 1–3

Regular season

|- bgcolor=#fcc | 1 | May 16 | @ Chicago | L 71–74 | Natasha Howard (16) | Natasha Howard (10) | Briann January (6) | Allstate Arena<br>6,721 | 0–1 |- bgcolor=#fcc | 2 | May 17 | Atlanta | L 88–90 | Natasha Howard (21) | Erlana Larkins (13) | Briann January (5) | Bankers Life Fieldhouse<br>8,275 | 0–2 |- bgcolor=#fcc | 3 | May 23 | Washington | L 63–79 | Maggie Lucas (12) | Erlana Larkins (12) | Briann January (4) | Bankers Life Fieldhouse<br>5,632 | 0–3 |- bgcolor=#cfc | 4 | May 25 | @ Atlanta | W 82–77 | Briann January (16) | Erlana Larkins (22) | Briann January (7) | Philips Arena<br>5,517 | 1–3 |- bgcolor=#cfc | 5 | May 29 | Connecticut | W 79–65 | rowspan=2| Briann January (20) | Erlana Larkins (10) | Marissa Coleman (5) | Bankers Life Fieldhouse<br>6,305 | 2–3 |- bgcolor=#cfc | 6 | May 31 | New York | W 70–66 | Howard, Larkins (7) | Briann January (7) | Bankers Life Fieldhouse<br>7,025 | 3–3

|- bgcolor=#cfc | 7 | June 6 | @ Washington | W 64–61 | Marissa Coleman (20) | Erlana Larkins (9) | Erlana Larkins (5) | Capital One Arena<br>7,155 | 4–3 |- bgcolor=#fcc | 8 | June 7 | @ Connecticut | L 71–88 | Natasha Howard (14) | Erlana Larkins (7) | Erlana Larkins (6) | Mohegan Sun Arena<br>5,105 | 4–4 |- bgcolor=#cfc | 9 | June 11 | Seattle | W 76–68 | Erlana Larkins (17) | Erlana Larkins (11) | Briann January (5) | Bankers Life Fieldhouse<br>7,925 | 5–4 |- bgcolor=#fcc | 10 | June 17 | @ Connecticut | L 67–89 | Lynetta Kizer (13) | Lynetta Kizer (10) | Briann January (3) | Mohegan Sun Arena<br>4,356 | 5–5 |- bgcolor=#cfc | 11 | June 20 | @ Chicago | W 83–75 | Karima Christmas (14) | Erlana Larkins (11) | Briann January (7) | Allstate Arena<br>6,488 | 6–5 |- bgcolor=#fcc | 12 | June 22 | @ Minnesota | L 77–83 | Karima Christmas (18) | Erlana Larkins (10) | Briann January (4) | Target Center<br>8,704 | 6–6 |- bgcolor=#fcc | 13 | June 25 | Tulsa | L 102–107 (OT) | Shavonte Zellous (33) | Erlana Larkins (9) | Briann January (6) | Bankers Life Fieldhouse<br>7,367 | 6–7 |- bgcolor=#fcc | 14 | June 27 | Phoenix | L 76–81 | rowspan=2| Shavonte Zellous (18) | Erlana Larkins (11) | Briann January (7) | Bankers Life Fieldhouse<br>7,762 | 6–8 |- bgcolor=#fcc | 15 | June 29 | Atlanta | L 68–76 | Erlana Larkins (12) | Erlana Larkins (4) | Bankers Life Fieldhouse<br>8.014 | 6–9

|- bgcolor=#cfc | 16 | July 1 | @ Atlanta | W 77–70 | Karima Christmas (18) | Karima Christmas (9) | Erlana Larkins (5) | Allstate Arena<br>5,037 | 7–9 |- bgcolor=#cfc | 17 | July 2 | @ Washington | W 80–77 | Natasha Howard (20) | Erlana Larkins (7) | Carter, Larkins (3) | Capital One Arena<br>7,096 | 8–9 |- bgcolor=#fcc | 18 | July 5 | San Antonio | L 70–71 | Shavonte Zellous (16) | Catchings, Larkins (5) | Catchings, Larkins (7) | Bankers Life Fieldhouse<br>8,531 | 8–10 |- bgcolor=#cfc | 19 | July 8 | @ Tulsa | W 78–76 | Tamika Catchings (23) | Tamika Catchings (11) | Erlana Larkins (5) | BOK Center<br>4,107 | 9–10 |- bgcolor=#cfc | 20 | July 10 | Connecticut | W 72–68 | Tamika Catchings (21) | Tamika Catchings (7) | Clarendon, January (3) | Bankers Life Fieldhouse<br>10,440 | 10–10 |- bgcolor=#fcc | 21 | July 12 | Atlanta | L 74–93 | Tamika Catchings (14) | Erlana Larkins (11) | Tamika Catchings (4) | Bankers Life Fieldhouse<br>8,562 | 10–11 |- bgcolor=#fcc | 22 | July 15 | Los Angeles | L 78–86 | Tamika Catchings (25) | Erlana Larkins (10) | Shavonte Zellous (5) | Bankers Life Fieldhouse<br>7,835 | 10–12 |- bgcolor=#cfc | 23 | July 17 | Chicago | W 82–64 | Tamika Catchings (25) | Tamika Catchings (9) | ' (2) | Bankers Life Fieldhouse<br>8,333 | 11–12 |- bgcolor=#fcc | 24 | July 22 | @ Chicago | L 57–60 | Catchings, Coleman (11) | Tamika Catchings (9) | Erlana Larkins (4) | Allstate Arena<br>5,891 | 11–13 |- bgcolor=#cfc | 25 | July 26 | @ San Antonio | W 75–68 | Lynetta Kizer (16) | Erlana Larkins (8) | Layshia Clarendon (5) | AT&T Center<br>7,649 | 12–13 |- bgcolor=#fcc | 26 | July 28 | @ Los Angeles | L 73–77 | Tamika Catchings (16) | Erlana Larkins (10) | Coleman, January (4) | STAPLES Center<br>6,413 | 12–14 |- bgcolor=#cfc | 27 | July 31 | @ Seattle | W 76–67 | Catchings, Coleman (16) | Tamika Catchings (6) | Tamika Catchings (4) | KeyArena<br>6,179 | 13–14

|- bgcolor=#fcc | 28 | August 2 | @ Phoenix | L 69–79 | Shavonte Zellous (14) | Erlana Larkins (13) | Shavonte Zellous (4) | US Airways Center<br>9,239 | 13–15 |- bgcolor=#fcc | 29 | August 5 | Minnesota | L 64–66 | Karima Christmas (15) | Erlana Larkins (11) | Briann January (5) | Bankers Life Fieldhouse<br>6,556 | 13–16 |- bgcolor=#fcc | 30 | August 8 | Washington | L 61–74 | Shavonte Zellous (13) | Erlana Larkins (8) | ' (2) | Bankers Life Fieldhouse<br>7,089 | 13–17 |- bgcolor=#cfc | 31 | August 10 | @ New York | W 90–76 | Tamika Catchings (29) | Christmas, Larkins (6) | Briann January (5) | Madison Square Garden<br>8,482 | 14–17 |- bgcolor=#cfc | 32 | August 14 | New York | W 76–63 | Briann January (16) | Catchings, Larkins (9) | Erlana Larkins (3) | Bakers Life Fieldhouse<br>8,030 | 15–17 |- bgcolor=#cfc | 33 | August 16 | Chicago | W 71–67 | Tamika Catchings (25) | Tamika Catchings (9) | Briann January (7) | Bakers Life Fieldhouse<br>10,625 | 16–17 |- bgcolor=#fcc | 34 | August 17 | @ New York | L 61–73 | Maggie Lucas (17) | Kizer, Thomas (8) | Maggie Lucas (4) | Madison Square Garden<br>9,432 | 16–18

Playoffs

|- bgcolor=#bbffbb | 1 | August 21 | Washington | W 78–73 | Tamika Catchings (22) | Erlana Larkins (11) | ' (2) | Bankers Life Fieldhouse<br>5,576 | 1–0 |- bgcolor=#bbffbb | 2 | August 23 | @ Washington | W 81–76 | Tamika Catchings (26) | ' (11) | Briann January (7) | Capital One Arena<br>6,124 | 2–0

|- bgcolor=#bbffbb | 1 | August 30 | Chicago | W 77–70 | Briann January (19) | Erlana Larkins (8) | Tamika Catchings (4) | Bankers Life Fieldhouse<br>7,557 | 1–0 |- bgcolor=#fcc | 2 | September 1 | @ Chicago | L 84–86 (OT2) | Shavonte Zellous (20) | Tamika Catchings (14) | Briann January (6) | Allstate Arena<br>6,019 | 1–1 |- bgcolor=#fcc | 3 | September 3 | Chicago | L 62–75 | Shavonte Zellous (16) | Erlana Larkins (11) | ' (3) | Bankers Life Fieldhouse<br>7,705 | 1–2

Standings

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Bracket

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Statistics

Regular season

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Playoffs

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Awards and honors

References

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