By Kim Daniel Rubinos

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Indiana Fever star Sophie Cunningham reacted to her team’s 87-85 Game 3 win over the Atlanta Dream on Thursday. Despite the Fever’s injury woes this season, they advanced to the semifinals for the first time in 10 years.In a clip shared on Friday on X by the “Show Me Something” podcast, Cunningham shared her thoughts on Indiana making the semifinals.”I think like the league is so mad that we won ’cause we’re literally not supposed to be here at all,” Cunningham said. “And (it) just like kind of fuels our fire even more, but it was like so fun. First of all, I was sweating my a** off because I was so nervous. … I was so anxious like I could not sit still. I felt like I played with how much I was sweating.”Indiana has six players on its injury report in the opening round. In addition to the five season-ending injuries, Damiris Dantas is under the league’s concussion protocol. The sixth-seed Fever were arguably the underdogs in the series against the No. 3 Dream.Indiana made key plays down the stretch of Game 3. Odyssey Sims, who is on a rest-of-season hardship contract, passed the ball to an open Aliyah Boston in the paint. The three-time WNBA All-Star made the layup and gave the Fever a one-point lead (86-85) with seven seconds remaining. On the other end, Lexie Hull sealed the win with a game-clinching steal.Sophie Cunningham played 30 games (13 starts) in her first season with Indiana. She started the year coming off the bench, but was later inserted into the starting lineup. She averaged 8.6 points and 3.5 rebounds per game on 46.9% shooting, including 43.2% from 3-point range.”It was so bada**” – Sophie Cunningham on watching her team in the winner-take-all Game 3In the same clip posted on Friday, Sophie Cunningham shared that she believed that the Indiana Fever would win Game 3.”It was one of those games, it was such a good W game,” Cunningham said. “I just knew deep down in my gut that we’re going to win. Like somehow, we’re going to win.”The 6-foot-1 guard also compared being on the court and having to watch her team on the sidelines:”I would much rather be playing than having to sit on the sidelines… because it is stressful. … But it was awesome, it was so bada**.”Sophie Cunningham’s Indiana will face the second-seed Las Vegas Aces in a best-of-five semifinal series. Game 1 will be on Sunday at Michelob Ultra Arena in Las Vegas. In the other semifinal bracket, the league-best Minnesota Lynx will face the winner of Friday’s Game 3 between the New York Liberty and the Phoenix Mercury.