The Dallas Wings (0-1) open its 2019 home slate Saturday, June 1, by welcoming the Minnesota Lynx (2-0) to College Park Center at 7 p.m., presented by Texas Capital Bank.

The home opener offers numerous opportunities for fans to experience all that the Wings have to offer on gameday during the 2019 Season. The Wings will host its first Block Party of the season starting at 5 p.m., two hours before tip. Presented by ACME Brick, Block Parties will happen before every Saturday game. Join us outside of Gate 4 for live music, food, yard games, fun for the whole family and much more at College Park Center. There will be four more Block Parties through the duration of the season (6/15, 6/20, 8/3 and 8/31).

To welcome the Wings back to College Park Center for the 2019 season, each fan in attendance will receive an LED bracelet that will be used as part of the opening night ceremonies.

The Wings are coming off a season where it went 10-7 at home on the year, the second-best home record in the WNBA. This is will be the fourth time the Wings organization has hosted Minnesota in its home opener, the last coming in 2014. Dallas is 1-2 all-time when playing the Lynx in home openers.

The Wings, who opened the season last week in Atlanta, fell in the season opener, but saw a lot from the youngest roster (an average of 25 years, 64 days) in the league.

Third-year player Allisha Gray led the team with 14 points, going two-for-three from behind the three-point line and shooting four-of-seven overall. Rookies Arike Ogunbowale and Brooke McCarty-Williams showed up and showed out in their first taste WNBA action. Ogunbowale collected 14 points, the only starter to eclipse double-digits, and McCarty-Williams handed out a game-high eight assists. Glory Johnson paced the team on the glass, collecting a game-high nine rebounds and Kayla Thornton also added nine points off the bench.

The Lynx come to Arlington riding a two-game win streak, having beat the Sky in the season opener and then topping the Storm 72-61 on May 29. Rookie Napheesa Collier leads Minnesota in scoring at an 18.0 points per game clip and veteran Sylvia Fowles paces the team in rebounds, grabbing 11.5 a game.

ROOKIE, ROOKIE, ROOKIE CAN’T YOU SEE
Rookies Arike Ogunbowale and Brooke McCarty Williams had quite the WNBA debut. Through one game, Ogunbowale is the second highest scoring rookie in the W and McCarty-Williams is tied for third. McCarty-Williams assists give her the most of any rookie so for far this season.

IT WAS DENTYNE, COACH
Coach Agler’s reputation for defense has continued in Dallas. The Wings’ defense held Atlanta to just 76 points, ranking them the fifth best defense in the League after one contest.

CAST IT!
Dallas attempted 24 three-pointers in the season opener against Atlanta, making eight of them. The Wings are the current league leader for both categories. Allisha Gray and Brooke McCarty-Williams shot 66.7 percent from beyond the arc in the contest, ranking them tied for third best in the WNBA so far this season.

ASSISTS AND BOARDS, WATCH YOUR FRAME SHAKE UP
Spearheaded by rookie Brooke McCarty-Williams, the Wings handed out 18 helpers against Atlanta. Placing them at the third most dimes dishes during the young WNBA season. Dallas also pulled down 43 total rebounds, the second most in the league, and a league best 17 offensive rebounds.

HERE’S A FUN FACT FOR YA
Kayla Thornton and Brooke McCarty-Williams rank third and fourth, respectively, for points per game by players who are in the WNBA but went undrafted.

IT’S A BLOCK PARTY!
Five of the Wings six total blocks all come from Wings newcomer Isabelle Harrison. Her five blocks tied her career-best for single-game blocks. Harrison is tied for first in the league for blocks with the Sun’s Jonquel Jones, who has played two games.

ON THE MOVE
The Dallas Wings traded center Liz Cambage to the Las Vegas Aces in return for guard Moriah Jefferson and forward Isabelle Harrison. The deal also included the Wings picking up Vegas’ first and second round picks from the 2020 draft. The Wings made another deal the same day, acquiring Imani McGee-Stafford from the Atlanta Dream for the Wings’ 2020 third round pick. Jefferson, 25, averaged 5.4 points a game in 2018 after returning from injury halfway through the season. Harrison, 25, who took a medical leave of absence during the 2018 season, started 33 contests for San Antonio in 2017. McGee-Stafford, 24, appeared in 29 games for the Dream last season, starting two of them.

WELCOME TO TEXAS, COACH
The Dallas Wings hired two-time WNBA Champion Brian Agler to serve as the team’s head coach on December 18, 2018. Agler joins the Wings with more victories than any other coach in U.S. women’s professional basketball history. Agler brings more than 30 years of coaching experience to Dallas, including 12 years as a WNBA head coach. Before coming to Dallas, Agler was the head coach of the Los Angeles Sparks. Compiling an 85-51 overall record, Agler’s guided the Sparks to four playoff appearances and the 2016 WNBA Championship. Agler’s stint in LA also included back-to-back 28-6 seasons in 2016 and 2017 and a second appearance in the WNBA Finals following the 2017 campaign.

ALLOW ME TO REINTRODUCE MYSELF
The Dallas Wings resigned the duo of Kayla Thornton and Glory Johnson this off season. Thornton, who claimed a championship with the KB Stars of the WKBL before reporting to camp, started 32 of last season’s 34 contests. The UTEP product averaged 9.2 points and 4.0 rebounds, all career-high marks, while shooting a career-best 44.7 percent from the field and 86.0 from the foul line. Johnson, entering her seventh season in the WNBA, has spent her entire career with the Wings organization. She appeared in 29 outings last season, averaging 8.0 points, 6.0 rebounds and 1.3 assists. Johnson’s 1,448 total rebounds give her the second most total boards in franchise history.

A ROOKIE NOW
Dallas’ first round draft pick, No. 5 overall, Arike Ogunbowale (Notre Dame) became a household name when she stunned UConn and Mississippi State en route to the Irish capturing the NCAA Championship in 2018 and was vital to the South Bend squad returning to the championship game the following year. She passed Dallas’ own Skylar Diggins-Smith this season to become the program’s all-time leading scorer. The 2018 and 2019 All-American was All-ACC First-Team in the same years.

TEXAS FOREVER, Y’ALL
The Wings made moves off the court by welcoming Texas Capital Bank as the team’s marquee jersey partner. The community efforts of the two organizations started last month with the revitalization of the Sarah Wilke Youth Center, part of the Wesley Rankin Community Center in West Dallas, and will continue with more community events throughout the season and partnership.