WNBA 2025 season preview: Team rankings, predictions, more - ESPN

After a thrilling and historic 2024 campaign, the WNBA continued to make headlines throughout the offseason. A new expansion team. A slew of head coach firings and hirings. An unpredictable free agency featuring stunning player moves.

The culmination of all that intrigue comes to a head Friday, when the 2025 WNBA season, the 29th in league history, tips off. Training camps opened in late April and exhibition games started on May 2, but now we get a chance to finally see how all 13 teams look when it counts for real.

ESPN is tracking all the biggest storylines to start the season. After winning their first title in franchise history, can the New York Liberty repeat? Will the Minnesota Lynx book a return trip to the WNBA Finals — perhaps with a different ending in 2025? Can the Las Vegas Aces and reigning MVP A'ja Wilson win their third championship in four years? Will Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever improve on last season's first-round playoff exit? And which eight teams will reach the postseason?

From rebuilt rosters to championship aspirations, we've got everything you need to know about all 13 teams in the league, including ESPN's preseason WNBA Power Rankings — which were determined by Kendra Andrews, Kevin Pelton, Alexa Philippou and Michael Voepel — ESPN fantasy women's basketball analysis and notable numbers from ESPN's WNBA Basketball Power Index (BPI).

Jump to: ATL | CHI | CON | DAL | GS |
IND | LV | LA | MIN | NY | PHO | SEA | WAS

BPI's overall ranking: 1
Chances to make playoffs: >99.9%
Projected wins: 31.2

When we last saw them: After a tortured history of repeatedly falling short of a title, the Liberty (32-8 in the regular season, No. 1 seed in the playoffs) won the franchise's first WNBA championship in