Tempo at Sun Final Score: Sun Win 95-81

Final: Connecticut Sun 95, Toronto Tempo 81, Thursday 24 September at Mohegan Sun Arena.

Our call won. Before the game this page said: “Connecticut is 6-2 at home against losing teams. Take the Sun at -3.5 or shorter.” Connecticut won by 14, so Sun -2.5 covered. The line that posted, Sun -2.5, was inside that threshold, so it was a bet at that number.

What decided it

Connecticut won the third quarter by 10. Connecticut turned the ball over 12 times to Toronto’s 13, and shot 50% from the field to 34%.

The last DraftKings line ESPN holds for the game is CON -2.5, with a total of 170.5. Connecticut covered as the favourite. The 176 points went over the total.

What comes next

ESPN lists no further game for the Toronto Tempo yet. ESPN lists no further game for the Connecticut Sun yet.

The prediction, as published before the game

Everything below is the page as it stood before the game, kept unchanged as the record. It was titled “Pick the Sun – Tempo at Sun prediction, odds and best picks”.

Connecticut is 6-2 at home against losing teams. Take the Sun at -3.5 or shorter.

No book had a line on this game when I read the market at 16:15 UTC on 21 September, so this piece gives the price I would pay. My number is Connecticut by 4.6. Every figure runs through Sunday 20 September; both teams play once more before Thursday.

The number

Neither team has a winning record, so my figure takes Connecticut’s home games against losing teams and Toronto’s road games against losing teams, and halves the difference between the two average margins.

Connecticut is 6-2 in those eight home games and wins them by 5.1 points on average. Toronto is 4-4 in its eight road games and loses them by 4.1. Half the difference is Connecticut by 4.6.

I play a side when my number and the price are at least a point apart, which makes Connecticut a bet at -3.5 or shorter and a pass at -4 or longer. ESPN’s matchup predictor gives Connecticut 58%.

One game carries more than its share

Connecticut’s eight home games against losing teams include a 29-point win. Without it, the other seven average 1.7, and my number falls to Connecticut by 2.9, under the pick price.

The method counts every game. The reader should know the edge is thinner than the headline number, and that both samples are eight games.

Toronto has won both meetings

This is what argues hardest against the pick. Toronto won 106-102 at home on 10 June and 101-97 in Connecticut on 19 June: two four-point games, both in the first half of the season.

Both teams arrive in poor form. Toronto has lost six straight and is 1-9 over the last ten, losing by 14.9 a game. Connecticut has lost five straight and is 2-8, losing by 15.2. The two are the bottom two teams in the Eastern Conference, Toronto at 11-31 and Connecticut at 10-32.

The total

With no total posted there is nothing to bet. Connecticut’s games have a median total of 167 and Toronto’s 179. Over the last ten, Connecticut’s have averaged 168.6 and Toronto’s 174.7.

The two meetings produced 208 and 198, well over both teams’ medians. Two games prove nothing on their own.

Pick: Sun -3.5 or shorter

Pick: Connecticut Sun, at -3.5 or shorter. My number is Connecticut by 4.6. No line had been posted when this was written, 21 September 2026 at 16:15 UTC.

What would change it: a line of Connecticut -4 or longer is a pass. Without the 29-point win the edge is gone, and the head-to-head is against it.

Toronto Tempo at Connecticut Sun, Thursday 24 September 2026, 7:00 PM ET, Mohegan Sun Arena. Results: ESPN, read 21 September 2026, each final checked against Nucleus where Nucleus holds the game. ESPN matchup predictor read 21 September 2026. Every WNBA game: WNBA predictions.