New York hosts Seattle after Stewart's 32-point game

Seattle Storm (20-13, 8-6 Western Conference) at New York Liberty (27-6, 15-3 Eastern Conference)

New York; Thursday, 7 p.m. EDT

BOTTOM LINE: New York Liberty hosts the Seattle Storm after Breanna Stewart scored 32 points in New York Liberty’s 98-85 win over the Seattle Storm.

The Liberty have a 14-2 record at home. New York is second in the Eastern Conference with an average of 36.6 rebounds. Jonquel Jones is the Liberty's best player with 9.4 rebounds.

The Storm are 8-8 on the road. Seattle is third in the Western Conference with 20.4 assists per game, led by Skylar Diggins-Smith averaging 6.4.

New York is averaging 85.9 points, 7.1 more per game than the 78.8 that Seattle is allowing. Seattle is averaging 5.8 made three-pointers per game this season, 1.0 fewer than the 6.8 that New York is allowing per game.

The teams are playing against each other for the third time this season. The Liberty won the last game on August 31st, 98-85. Stewart was the Liberty's top player with 32 points and Diggins-Smith was the Storm's top player with 26 points.

TOP PERFORMER: Stewart has a 45.9% shooting percentage and averages 20.5 points for the Liberty.

Nneka Ogwumike averages 17.1 points, 7.8 rebounds and 1.9 steals for the Storm.

LAST 10 GAMES: Liberty: 8-2, averaging 85.2 points, 38.8 rebounds, 22.0 assists, 8.1 steals and 4.1 blocks per game on 44.0% shooting. Their opponents average 74.2 points per game.

Storm: 5-5, averaging 80.8 points, 31.6 rebounds, 19.4 assists, 9.4 steals and 5.1 blocks per game while shooting 42.4%. Their opponents averaged 81.5 points.

INJURIES: Freedom: None listed.

Storm: MacKenzie Holmes: out for the rest of the season (knee).

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The Associated Press produced this article using technology from Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.