The Minnesota Lynx were the champions last season, 2011 was the first season their core of players were healthy and combined with the additions of Lyndsey Whalen and Maya Moore they finally broke an 8 year drought of not appearing in the playoffs and won the championship. their overall record was 27-7 regular season 7-1 in the playoffs, 21-13 ATS regular season, 6-2 ATS in the playoffs,yet the Over/Under was 14-19-1 reg season, 4-4 in the playoffs. They averaged 81.5 ppg but the played the Phoenix Mercury 5 times, 85.8 in the playoffs but played Atlanta and Phoenix two of the leagues higher tempo and higher scoring teams