The Minnesota Lynx will have home-field advantage in Game 5 of the WNBA semifinals against the Connecticut Sun, in a matchup that may be familiar from last year’s postseason.

The Sun eliminated the Lynx in the first round last season with a win at Minnesota in the deciding Game 3.

The winner of Tuesday’s game will face the New York Liberty.

Connecticut won on Sunday, forcing a winner-take-all showdown. The Sun won Game 1 of that series in Minnesota before losing the next two games.

“The atmosphere there in the first two games was absolutely crazy. I can only imagine what it would be like in Game 5,” Suns forward DeWanna Bonner said after Sunday’s Game 4 win. “We just have to focus on each other and we have each other. … They’re championship fans, they’ve won multiple championships. So you’re hungry for another one. So you know it’s going to be crazy.” “

Minnesota fought for home court all season long in a winner-take-all series.

“You work so hard in the regular season because you want that edge,” said Napheesa Collier, who had 29 points and 13 rebounds for Minnesota in Game 4. “Of course you want to go home for this game, and since it’s us, it really is. “It’s nice to have that home advantage.”

This postseason, Collier has averaged just over 27 points and 9 rebounds while shooting over 40% of her three-point shots. Kayla McBride is averaging just over 12 points and 2 rebounds.

The Lynx are 2-1 in Game 5, all of those appearances coming in the WNBA Finals, most recently in 2017 when they beat Los Angeles. This year the Lynx won their fourth championship in seven years.

Since that win, the Lynx are 1-4 in all playoff games. Connecticut has had more success, going 5-2 in its last seven winner-take-all contests.

“Both franchises were here,” Connecticut coach Stephanie White said. “We have a lot of players in our squad who certainly know what’s important here and today’s performance won’t be good enough.”

“We expect them to make adjustments. We will also make some optimizations and adjustments. … It’s about the players making their plays,” White added. “It’s about the extra effort, the hustle and bustle. It’s about not being rejected and finding something deep within you that just allows you to emerge victorious.”

The first two games in the series had a more light-hearted nature, with physical play and trash talk adding to the intensity. There was less physicality in Game 3, but that changed on Sunday. The intensity increased in the elimination game as players from both teams were physically active and arguments broke out on the pitch after several plays.

The players said it was just playoff basketball.

“I think we were there for the first two games, thank God. So we know what it feels like,” Bonner added. “And we will be prepared for it. We’ll just stay locked up.”

Whoever wins Game 5 has a short time until the final. Game 1 takes place on Thursday in New York.