The Indiana Fever have come a long way in the past few years, especially considering the point their franchise was at before that point. The Fever have one WNBA championship, which came in 2012. They’ve also made it to four WNBA Finals, with the most recent being in 2015. That shows the Fever are among the more successful franchises in the league, at least when the league’s nearly 30-year history is taken into account. Indiana lost in the 2026 WNBA playoffs without winning a game. From there, they went 9-25 in 2017, 6-28 in 2018, 13-21 in 2019, 6-16 in a COVID-shortened 2020 season, 6-26 in 2021, 5-31 in 2022, and 13-27 in 2023. They didn’t make the playoffs in any of those seasons and were dead-last in the league standings in 2018, 2021, and 2022. The good news is that being so bad for so long provides the franchise with ample opportunities to get elite players in the WNBA Draft. And that’s exactly what happened with the Fever, as they got Kelsey Mitchell with the No. 2 pick in 2018’s draft, Lexie Hull with
