A young Connecticut Sun team upended the WNBA on Wednesday, as the league's last-place squad defeated the No. 5 Seattle Storm 93-83, earning their third win of the 2025 season.

Veteran center Tina Charles — the WNBA's all-time top rebounder and second all-time scorer — led the Connecticut charge with a 29-point, 11-rebound double-double.

Also helping snap the Sun's 10-game losing streak were starters Jacy Sheldon, Bria Hartley, and Saniya Rivers, who added double-digits points of their own to top the tough, veteran-heavy Storm.

"It was great to see a collective team effort," Charles said after the game. "It wasn't just me. Everyone involved got this win for us."

Elsewhere on Wednesday, No. 7 Indiana failed to hold off the No. 6 Golden State Valkyries, falling 80-61 to the 2025 expansion side despite the return of Fever star Caitlin Clark to the court.

After hanging the No. 14 jersey of retired WNBA champion Allie Quigley in the rafters, the No. 10 Chicago Sky logged an 87-76 win over the No. 12 Dallas Wings, buoyed by Rebecca Allen's season-high 27 points off the bench.

Also stealing Wednesday headlines were the No. 2 Mercury, who chipped away at Minnesota's lead atop the WNBA standings, shrinking it to a three-game buffer with a 79-71 Phoenix victory — only the third Lynx loss this season.

Along with a career-high 29-point performance from forward Alyssa Thomas, the Mercury win also marked DeWanna Bonner's return to play, with the veteran forward putting up seven points and six rebounds off the bench after signing with Phoenix on Tuesday.

"Today, she got thrown into the fire, [she] didn't know everything. But she did the things she could control, which is playing defense and rebounding," said Thomas about Bonner. "It's scary to think we're not even full strength yet."

Bria Hartley will miss the remainder of the WNBA season after suffering a torn ACL in her left knee, the Connecticut Sun announced Wednesday.

Hartley suffered the injury during the third quarter of Connecticut’s win Sunday over the Minnesota Lynx.

The guard had just signed a rest-of-season contract with the Sun on July 18 after being cut by the Indiana Fever. Through three games with the team, she averaged 4.6 points, 0.7 rebounds, 1.3 assists and 1.0 steals per game.

It’s Hartley’s second ACL tear in recent years, after she suffered a torn ACL in her right knee during the 2020 season while with the Phoenix Mercury. She was traded to the Indiana Fever ahead of the 2022 season.

WNBA free agent Sydney Wiese put the injury into perspective with the demands of professional women’s basketball in a Twitter thread.

“I think it’s important to talk about everything leading up to this moment,” she wrote. “She came off of an overseas season – had some aches and pains she was working through from that time.”

Hartley’s trade to Indiana then forced her to adjust to a “new home, new environment, new system,” Wiese said. And then, before Hartley could fully adjust, she was cut and signed with the Sun.

“She’s off to the races because we are demanded to perform right away, it’s our job,” Wiese continued. “So now today — she gets hurt. No contact. A step. One step and who knows what comes next. But look at what this human had to process through off the court. It translates. It’s felt. We can’t overlook the off-court weight that plays a major role in this moment.

“The women’s professional basketball world is the most cutthroat profession. That’s a fact. She went from three different team environments in a matter of months, WITH HER SON, to have a job. We don’t talk about the details off-court that play into this thing.”