Across the Timeline
LightNews LightNews
banner
acrossthetimeline.com
Across the Timeline
@acrossthetimeline.com
2.4K followers 85 following 790 posts
Stats, facts, and memories from the history of WBB || "valuable guardian of WNBA stats and records" - @maitreyiaa || https://acrossthetimeline.com/support.html
Posts Replies Media Videos
acrossthetimeline.com
A couple of insets from the March 17, 1996, Rapid City Journal.
Newspaper clipping with information on the Class AA all-tournament team, including the selection of a "Nate Tibbetts" Newspaper clipping on CSU's opening round win in the NCAA Tournament, including Becky Hammon's 11 points.
October 5, 2025 at 6:39 PM
acrossthetimeline.com
With the Fever and Aces now set to meet up in the Semifinals, how about a throwback to the 1998 NCAA Tournament where their head coaches matched up in the Second Round?

Stephanie White's Purdue squad overcame Becky Hammon and Colorado State 77-63 in West Lafayette.
Newspaper clipping with headline "Purdue rallies to get past Colorado St." with photo of Stephanie White trying to push the ball up the floor but committing an offensive foul Newspaper clipping with headline "CSU women pressed out of tourney" with photo of Becky Hammon trying to navigate around a Purdue defender
September 19, 2025 at 1:35 PM
acrossthetimeline.com
Back together
Alissa Pili and Lynne Roberts celebrating a win at Utah
August 3, 2025 at 4:11 PM
acrossthetimeline.com
28 years ago today the Los Angeles Sparks and New York Liberty matched up in the first WNBA game.

The Liberty came away with the 67-57 win.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaYb...
WNBA President Val Ackerman tips the ball to Kym Hampton and Lisa Leslie as photographers gather around for the first WNBA game
June 21, 2025 at 12:04 PM
acrossthetimeline.com
19 years ago today the WNBA announced its All-Decade Team:

Sue Bird
Tamika Catchings
Cynthia Cooper
Yolanda Griffith
Lauren Jackson
Lisa Leslie
Katie Smith
Dawn Staley
Sheryl Swoopes
Tina Thompson

Van Chancellor was named Coach of the Decade.
The WNBA All-Decade Team pictured together around the WNBA 10th Anniversary logo
June 13, 2025 at 12:12 PM
acrossthetimeline.com
19 years ago today it was Coach vs. Former Player as Dawn Staley and the Houston Comets took on Candice Dupree and the Chicago Sky.

Then head coach at Temple, Staley had coached Dupree in college just three months earlier. Staley and the Comets got the 71-60 win.
Newspaper clipping with headline "Teacher vs. student in WNBA matchup" with photo of Candice Dupree holding up her Sky jersey during the draft
June 2, 2025 at 11:42 AM
acrossthetimeline.com
New team, new Kelsey Plum?
Screencap of a WNBA play-by-play showing a "Plum 2' Driving Dunk"
May 22, 2025 at 5:06 AM
acrossthetimeline.com
In honor of the WNBA GM Survey, looking back at the 2012 survey and one of the biggest "huh?" responses in league history...
Screencap of the 2012 WNBA GM Survey question "Which player is the best-passing post player?" with one response for "Becky Hammon"
May 15, 2025 at 4:09 PM
acrossthetimeline.com
10. WNBA Game Notes
acrossthetimeline.com/wnba/game-no...
- Aggregated record data for team's next matchup
- Recent attendance data
- Career coaching records overall and vs. next team
- Recent and upcoming statistics milestones
- Aggregated player statistics
WNBA Game Notes for the New York Liberty showing records and attendance numbers WNBA Game Notes for the Indiana Fever showing Coach Stephanie White's record numbers and player statistic milestones and leaderboard positions
May 13, 2025 at 9:35 PM
acrossthetimeline.com
9. WNBA Drafts + Draft Lotteries
acrossthetimeline.com/wnba/drafts....
- Historical WNBA draft data, filterable by year, pick, team, etc.
- Relevant trades
- Future picks tracked through trades
- Historical draft lottery results and simulator
acrossthetimeline.com/wnba/draft-l...
2025 WNBA Draft with picks and trade details Screencap of the current 2025 WNBA Draft picks Screencap of the winners of each WNBA Draft Lottery
May 13, 2025 at 9:35 PM
acrossthetimeline.com
8. WNBA Awards + Award Votes
acrossthetimeline.com/wnba/awards....
- History of WNBA player, coach, and executive awards
- Filter by award, date, team, and individual
- Full history of publicized WNBA award voting data
- Voting data records
acrossthetimeline.com/wnba/award-v...
Screencap of 2024 WNBA award winners Screencap of 2024 WNBA MVP voting results Screencap of WNBA MVP vote-getters by largest single-season share
May 13, 2025 at 9:35 PM
acrossthetimeline.com
7. WNBA Technical / Flagrant Fouls + More
acrossthetimeline.com/wnba/misc.ht...
- List and count technical fouls, flagrant fouls, delays of game, and defensive 3 seconds calls
- Group by individual, team, or game
- Full league history
Screencap of technical foul leaders in the 2024 WNBA regular season Screencap of delay of game leaders in the 2024 WNBA regular season Screencap of flagrant foul leaders in the 2024 WNBA regular season
May 13, 2025 at 9:35 PM
acrossthetimeline.com
6. WNBA National Broadcasts
acrossthetimeline.com/wnba/broadca...
- National broadcast matchup counts
- Filterable by network, channel, and season
- # of nationally broadcast game by season, network, and channel
Screencap of 2025 WNBA regular season national broadcasts by matchup Screencap of WNBA national broadcasts on ESPN TV by regular season
May 13, 2025 at 9:35 PM
acrossthetimeline.com
5. WNBA Transactions + Player Movement
acrossthetimeline.com/wnba/transac...
- Filterable historical player signings, trades, waivers, etc.
- Historical coach and executive signings
- History of player core designations
- Team-by-team player movement and transactions
Screencap of the Across the Timeline WNBA Transactions page showing the latest moves Screencap of the Across the Timeline WNBA Player Movement tab for the Atlanta Dream Across the Timeline WNBA Core Service table showing the latest core service details
May 13, 2025 at 9:35 PM
acrossthetimeline.com
4. WNBA Team + Coach pages
acrossthetimeline.com/wnba/teams.h...
- Overall stats filterable and splittable by many metrics
- Transactions, milestones, and awards
acrossthetimeline.com/wnba/coaches...
Screencap of Las Vegas Aces franchise's overall stats split by head coach and colorized relative to one another Screencap of Las Vegas Aces' 2023 regular season game logs' advanced stats, colorized relative to one another Screencap of Cheryl Reeve's WNBA regular season team stats organized by opposing franchise and colorized relative to the rest Screencap of table of Cheryl Reeve's WNBA regular season win milestones
May 13, 2025 at 9:35 PM
acrossthetimeline.com
3. WNBA Player pages
acrossthetimeline.com/wnba/players...
- Career stats, colorized relative to other seasons and filterable and splittable on many metrics
- Transactions, awards, and All Star appearances
- Career stat milestones (1K pts, 2K pts, etc.)
Candace Parker's player page with career stats shown with values colorized relative to other seasons Candace Parker's player page with charts shown for WNBA regular season field goal percentage Rhyne Howard's career points milestones tab, showing milestone games at 500 points and 1,000 points Rhyne Howard's 2023 WNBA regular season game logs, with advanced stats selected and colorized relative to the rest of the season
May 13, 2025 at 9:35 PM
acrossthetimeline.com
2. WNBA Data Explorer
acrossthetimeline.com/wnba/data-ex...
- Search for player/team games/seasons by stat, team, result, age, and more
- Find player/team game streaks
- Search for players w/ specific stats in the same game
- Search for player/team stats over several games
Screencap of table of WNBA regular season triple-doubles Screencap of table of 5-or-fewer-game season openers by players by total points, in WNBA regular season history Screencap of a graph of players' scoring averages over their WNBA regular season career for last year's top-5 MVP vote-getters Screencap of a table of games ordered by number of players with a double-double in the playoffs
May 13, 2025 at 9:35 PM
acrossthetimeline.com
The WNBA season is just around the corner. Are you familiar with the Across the Timeline WNBA data + tools?

Thread:

1. WNBA Attendance
acrossthetimeline.com/wnba/attenda...
- Full historical game attendance data
- Yearly and by team and/or game
- Filterable by season and more
Screencap of 2023 WNBA regular season attendance broken down by team, with bars colored with the team's primary color indicating relative value Screencap of game-by-game attendance for the 2023 Las Vegas Aces regular season, with bars indicating relative value Screencap of a table of the 16 most-attended postseason WNBA games, with bars indicating relative value Screencap of a table of WNBA regular season averages, with orange bars indicating relative values for the 17 most recent seasons
May 13, 2025 at 9:35 PM
acrossthetimeline.com
Here are the longest (including Lieberman). That 2,150 days for Peters is as of today, so she could easily pass Ify Ibekwe and depending on the number of DNPs could compete with Ashley Walker. Maria Kliundikova not *too* far behind, either.
Table of players by longest stretches between games in the WNBA
May 5, 2025 at 2:34 AM
acrossthetimeline.com
29 years ago today the NBA announced that the Board of Governors approved the concept of a women's pro basketball league, the WNBA.

David Stern: "There was a strong statement of interest that this is a good idea, a right idea. This is another opportunity to grow the sport of basketball."
Newspaper clipping with headline "NBA to consider women's league" with photo of David Stern and Val Ackerman speaking at a press conference
April 24, 2025 at 12:12 PM
acrossthetimeline.com
Hard to compete with the early years
Table of WNBA Draft years sorted by average age of drafted players
April 14, 2025 at 7:56 PM
acrossthetimeline.com
It's really not a competition, given this is the first year they've inducted three former WNBA players in one class. (Table is players only.)
Table of WNBA players who have been selected for enshrinement in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, by year
April 5, 2025 at 11:08 PM
acrossthetimeline.com
If you're looking for a breakdown of all the national WNBA broadcasts as announced (with historical data available), here they are:

By matchup: acrossthetimeline.com/wnba/broadca...

By network: acrossthetimeline.com/wnba/broadca...

By team: acrossthetimeline.com/wnba/broadca...

...and more!
Screencap of the WNBA 2025 national broadcasts by matchup (first link in post) Screencap of the WNBA 2025 national broadcasts by network (second link in post) Screencap of the WNBA 2025 national broadcasts by team (third link in post)
March 20, 2025 at 9:25 PM
acrossthetimeline.com
36 years ago today Veronica Pettry had the 1st official NCAA D1 WBB quadruple-double:

12 points
10 rebounds
22 assists
11 steals

At the time she tied the NCAA D1 WBB single-game assists record and established the high for assists in a triple/quadruple-double.
Veronica Pettry taking a jump shot for Loyola Chicago Newspaper clipping with description of Pettry's stat line vs. Detroit
March 4, 2025 at 1:14 PM
acrossthetimeline.com
8 years ago today Kelsey Plum scored 57 points to pass Jackie Stiles and become the all-time NCAA DI WBB scoring leader.

Plum finished that 2016-17 season with what were then records of 1,109 points that season and 3,527 points in her college career.
Kelsey Plum putting up a jump shot for the Washington Huskies Newspaper clipping with headline "Huskies' Plum breaks NCAA scoring mark" with photo of Kelsey Plum celebrating
February 25, 2025 at 12:48 PM