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Dates: | September 27 – October, 2012 | |||||||||
Finals Champion: | Indiana Fever | |||||||||
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1st Connecticut | 1st Minnesota | |||||||||
2nd Indiana | 2nd Los Angeles | |||||||||
3rd Atlanta | 3rd San Antonio | |||||||||
4th New York | 4th Seattle | |||||||||
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The 2012 WNBA Playoffs was the postseason for the Women's National Basketball Association's 2012 season. Four teams from each of the league's two conferences qualified for the playoffs, seeded 1 to 4 in a tournament bracket, with the two opening rounds in a best-of-three format, and the final in a best-of-five format.
The Minnesota Lynx qualified as the overall top seed, and the Los Angeles Sparks, San Antonio Silver Stars, and Seattle Storm also qualified in the West. The Connecticut Sun were the top seed in the East, joined by the Indiana Fever, Atlanta Dream, and New York Liberty.
Minnesota won the Western Conference championship, and Indiana won the Eastern Conference championship. The Fever won the 2013 WNBA Finals, winning three games to the Lynx's one.
Connecticut won the regular-season series 4–1:
Indiana won the regular season series 3–2:
The Connecticut Sun won 3–1 in the regular season series:
San Antonio won the regular-season series 3–1:
Minnesota won the regular-season series 3–1:
The regular season series was tied 2–2:
The Minnesota Lynx won the season series 2–0: