Detroit rebounded quickly from Tuesday's loss and beat the Sting in Charlotte last night. Deanna Nolan led with 17.

"I think we wanted this game a little more," coach Laimbeer said. "We didn’t play well against Washington and this was a game we felt we had to win to get back on track."

The Shock went to the line 10 times more than the Sting, and that may have been the difference. "I thought we played equally as hard. They just made more free throws than we did," Sting coach Lacey said. "We had some good looks, but the bottom line is we just didn't put the ball in the hole."