We like the Minnesota Lynx to defeat the Connecticut Sun on Friday for a number of reasons. Here are some of the more important ones:

Game 2 was a much needed win for the Lynx to get back in this series. Now, they'll look to build on that here in Game 3.

In the Sun's last six games at home against the Lynx, they've only covered the spread in one of them -- 1-5 ATS over those games.

Minnesota really turned it up a notch over the second half of the season. They've won 17 of their last 20 games, including five straight on the road.

On the season, Minnesota owns a 15-6 ATS record on the road. For Connecticut, they had just a 8-13-1 ATS record at home.

Even though this series shifts to the far east coast for Games 3 and 4, Minnesota should try and end this series as fast as they can. They owned the best record in the Western Conference this year.

As a slight underdog, we love Minnesota on Friday. The road side should prevail in this game.

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