Third round, baby!

The Washington Mystics, the Women's National Basketball League (WNBA) team in Washington D.C., have just done something that no other Washington professional sports team has done for many years -- I'm too lazy to figure out how many -- but a long time.

They're in the third round of the playoffs.  They are one round away from the championship round.

Seriously.  Unfortunately now they have to play the best team in the league, the Minnesota Lynx (27-7).   But this is not the team that had the regular season record of 18-16, because for much of the season, they didn't have Elena Delle Donne.  And Emma Meesseman missed some time too.

And they also have Kristi Toliver, who got the Mystics into the third round on 9-16 three-point shooting against New York.

So I think they have a chance.  Not a great chance, but you don't have a chance if you lose in the playoffs.  And they made it this far, and beyond that, they're actually good.

Good enough?  We'll see.  But breaking a curse as strong as the Washington D.C. championship sports curse requires something remarkable, even miraculous.

Perhaps Mystical will be what it takes.


Toliver’s shooting lifts Mystics to 82-68 win over Liberty