WNBA Power Rankings - Chicago Sky back at No. 1, but playoff picture still coming into focus

We know this much in the final WNBA Power Rankings of 2022 as the regular season enters its last week: No team has thrown in the towel, even the Indiana Fever, who have long been eliminated from the postseason. Everyone is battling to the very end.

The defending champion Chicago Sky, one of five teams that have already clinched a spot in the playoffs, are back on top of our rankings.

The Dallas Wings were the only team with a perfect record this past week, and they have all but clinched a postseason berth.

Five other teams are still in the running for the playoffs.

One of them is the Minnesota Lynx, who got a big lift on Sunday with the return of Napheesa Collier, back after giving birth to a daughter in May. Minnesota's victory over the Atlanta Dream helped keep alive the Lynx's hopes for the playoffs, which they haven't missed since 2010, when Collier was starting eighth grade.

The Fever have lost 16 games in a row and haven't won since June 19, but they pushed Dallas to overtime on Saturday. The Wings triumphed in the extra period, and they now have a .500 record. That's no small accomplishment for Dallas this late in the season.

The franchise has finished at .500 or better just once (2015 in Tulsa) since moving from Detroit after the 2009 season. The team has been in Dallas since 2016 and has reached the playoffs three times but hasn't won a postseason game.

The Los Angeles Sparks had a grueling four-game Eastern time zone road swing this past week and had lost six games in row. But the Sparks somehow managed to get a win at the Washington Mystics on Sunday to keep their playoff hopes alive.

Teams are still playing for home-court advantage in the postseason, and many of the individual awards are likely yet to be