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DURHAM, N.C.— The 2020 WNBA playoffs tip off Tuesday, Sept. 15 with three former Duke women's basketball standouts taking the floor with their respective teams.  Jasmine Thomas and the Connecticut Sun, Lexie Brown and the Minnesota Lynx and Chelsea Gray and the Los Angeles Sparks will open action this week.  

Thomas and the Sun will face the Chicago Sun Sept. 15 at 7 p.m., live on ESPN2 in an elimination game with the winner advancing to the second round.  

On Thursday, Sept. 17 in the second round, Brown and the Lynx will play at 7 p.m., on ESPN2 against one of the winners from Tuesday's Connecticut/Chicago or Washington/Phoenix contests.  Gray and the Sparks will also face one of the winners at 9 p.m., on ESPN2 Thursday.  Brown and Gray's contests will also be a one-game elimination game.

The winners of the second round will advance to the semifinals to face either top-seeded Las Vegas or second-seeded Seattle, which will open Sept. 20.  

The Sparks finished with a 15-7 record and earned the third-best ledger in the league.  Gray, a 2014 Duke graduate, averaged 14.0 points, 5.3 assists, 3.7 rebounds and 1.6 steals on the 2020 campaign.  Her 5.3 assists ranked fifth in the league.  

Brown and the Lynx finished just behind the Sparks with a 14-8 record, which was fourth in the league.  She averaged 6.4 points, 1.8 steals, 2.4 assists and 1.9 rebounds on the season.  Brown, who was a two-time All-America at Duke in 2018 and 2017, ranked tied for second in the WNBA with a 1.8 steals per game average, but has not played since Sept. 6 due to a concussion.

The Sun finished the season with a 10-12 record and earned the No. 7 seed in the playoffs.  Thomas has averaged 10.2 points, 4.0 assists, 1.7 rebounds and 1.3 steals on the season.  Her 4.0 assists ranked tied for 13th in the WNBA.  Thomas, a Second Team All-America in 2011 at Duke, has missed several games and been limited to only seven minutes the last two contests she has played due to an injury.  

Duke has featured five former Blue Devils who have won WNBA titles – Alana Beard (2016 – Los Angeles), Karima Christmas (2012 – Indiana), Gray (2016 – Los Angeles) and Tricia Liston (2015 – Minnesota).

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