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Toronto finished 11-33, ending with an 81-95 loss at Connecticut on Thursday 24 September. The Tempo play no game until next season, so the offseason is now the story. Nyara Sabally has had arthroscopic left knee surgery and is expected to make a full recovery ahead of the 2027 season. The closing stretch also came without Marina Mabrey, who missed the final four games with a hip injury, and Aneesah Morrow and Brittney Sykes, who were out for the rest of the season. The last five results were all losses, and the club's priority now is health and depth. A full recovery for Sabally would give the Tempo one more healthy forward for next season, when the roster will need every one of them.
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The Toronto Tempo's WNBA season is over: the club finished 11-33 and missed the playoffs after eight straight defeats. The last of them was an 81-95 loss at Connecticut on Thursday 24 September, the Tempo's final game. The losing run began with a 78-88 home loss to Las Vegas on Sunday 23 August, and its last three games, in order, were 69-106 at home to New York on Sunday 20 September, 85-97 at Chicago on Tuesday 22 September and the Connecticut loss. The first item of the offseason is Nyara Sabally's arthroscopic surgery on her left knee, from which she is expected to make a full recovery ahead of the 2027 season. There is no game on the schedule until the next season, and the roster's health is the story that continues.
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Toronto's WNBA season is over, and it finished the way it had been going. The Tempo lost 95-81 at Connecticut on 24 September, their eighth defeat in a row, to end at 11-33, which left them 19 games back of the top of the Eastern Conference. The last stretch was the heaviest: 85-97 at Chicago, 69-106 at home to New York and 85-103 at home to Indiana came before the finale. The one piece of winter news is on the injury list. Forward Nyara Sabally has had arthroscopic surgery on her left knee, and the reported expectation is a full recovery ahead of the 2027 season. No game is scheduled, so the next real checkpoint is the offseason itself: what the roster looks like when the league returns and whether Sabally is ready for it.
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A season is measured by whether a team can compete for wins over its full length, and the Tempo could not reach that standard this year. Toronto finished 11-33 after a 95-81 loss at the Connecticut Sun on Thursday, 24 September, their eighth straight defeat. They ended tied with Connecticut for the fewest wins in the Eastern Conference, 19 games behind Atlanta. There is no game scheduled now; the offseason is under way. The one forward-looking note is medical. Nyara Sabally has undergone arthroscopic surgery on her left knee and is expected to make a full recovery ahead of the 2027 season. The losses at the end came with a depleted roster. Brittney Sykes and Aneesah Morrow were ruled out for the rest of the season in August, and Marina Mabrey missed the final four games with a hip injury. Who is available next year will shape what this team can be.
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Toronto's season should be measured against what a roster looks like with its key players on the floor, and by the end of 2026 the Tempo did not have that roster. The year finished at 11-33, 19 games back in the Eastern Conference, on an eight-game losing streak that closed with a 95-81 defeat at Connecticut on 24 September. The absences explain much of the slide. Brittney Sykes (foot) and Aneesah Morrow (knee) were ruled out for the rest of the season in August. Marina Mabrey (hip) missed the final four games. The offseason brings one encouraging medical note. Nyara Sabally has had arthroscopic surgery on her left knee and is expected to make a full recovery ahead of the 2027 season. The next test is a healthy start to 2027, and whether this group can compete once it is whole.
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The standard for the Toronto Tempo's season should be measured by development and competitive performance, and the closing weeks fell short of both. The Tempo finished 11-33, 19 games behind the Eastern Conference leaders, and lost their final eight games. The last five results were heavy defeats: 95-81 at Connecticut, 97-85 at Chicago, 106-69 at home to New York, 103-85 at home to Indiana and 101-69 at Phoenix. Injuries shaped the finish. Marina Mabrey missed the final four games with a hip injury, Sportsnet reported, and Aneesah Morrow missed the rest of the season with a knee injury, TSN reported. Nyara Sabally recently had arthroscopic surgery on her left knee but is expected to make a full recovery before the 2027 season, Sportsnet.ca reported. The roster decisions this winter are the concrete next test of whether the investment can lift the standard.
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Toronto's 11-33 record across 2026 asks one structural question Sandy Brondello must answer before May 8: how do you build a rotation around players who cannot stay on the floor? Eight players were unavailable for the season's final stretch, including Aneesah Morrow and Brittney Sykes for the entire closing run. The cost showed in the last three games — 235 points scored against 298 allowed, a differential of -63. Kiki Rice delivered 28 points in the 81-95 away loss to Connecticut Sun, and Isabelle Harrison pulled 10 rebounds in the same game. Both performances set a standard the surrounding lineup could not sustain. Connecticut Sun's Hailey Van Lith finished that night with 8 assists and 9 rebounds — the kind of playmaking the Tempo's back-end rotation had no answer for. The next test is whether the roster that takes the floor on May 8 is structurally different enough to make those performances mean something.
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Toronto Tempo allowed 298 points across their final three games — 81-95 away to Connecticut Sun, 85-97 away to Chicago Sky, 69-106 at home to New York Liberty — and the scale of that concession is the clearest measure of where the roster stands. Kiki Rice produced 28 points in the Connecticut Sun game, which is the standard of individual performance the season occasionally reached. The problem is that seven players were unavailable for Thursday's game alone, including Marina Mabrey, Brittney Sykes, and Aneesah Morrow for the full remainder of the schedule, and the scheme around Rice never had enough healthy bodies to function as a coherent unit. Sandy Brondello finished 11-33. Whether the structure she was asked to coach — undermanned, repeatedly — fairly reflects what she can build is the question the organization now has to answer with its decisions about investment and role allocation next year.
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Sandy Brondello closed an 11-33 season and is now headed to the Sport Australia Hall of Fame, per CFJC Today Kamloops. The standard against which that recognition lands is the one this paper set yesterday: the record is the record, and the honour does not rewrite it. What it does establish is that the organization hired a coach whose professional standing is beyond dispute. Brondello's Toronto tenure produced Kiki Rice scoring 28 points in the 81-95 away loss to Connecticut Sun on September 24 — the kind of individual performance that confirms the player, whatever it confirms about the programme. Seven players were unavailable for that game, including Aneesah Morrow and Brittney Sykes for the remainder of the season, so the roster Brondello actually coached was not the roster the role demanded. The concrete next test is whether the front office treats that gap as the investment decision the off-season requires.
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Sandy Brondello coached the Toronto Tempo to an 11-33 record, and that is the standard against which her Sport Australia Hall of Fame recognition lands. Per CFJC Today Kamloops, Brondello will join the Hall — an institutional acknowledgment of a coaching career built across a span that predates her tenure in Toronto. The recognition is earned at the career level, not the season level, and those two things do not contradict each other. What the 2026 regular season showed is a roster that gave Kiki Rice 28 points in the 81-95 away loss to Connecticut Sun with five players unavailable for that game alone, including Marina Mabrey, Aneesah Morrow, and Brittney Sykes lost to injury for the season's final stretch. Brondello's judgment will be measured next on what she builds with that, and how the organization behind her invests in closing the gap between a Hall of Fame coach and a 19-game deficit in the standings.
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Sandy Brondello's club finished 11-33, allowed 298 points across the final three games on the schedule, and gave up 106 in a single home performance against the Liberty. That is the standard the 2026 season produced, and Kiki Rice's All-Rookie recognition — confirmed per iNFOnews.ca — is the clearest evidence of what existed inside it. Rice put up 28 points in the 81-95 away loss to Connecticut Sun, the final game of the year, against a roster that finished the season missing seven players, including Marina Mabrey, Aneesah Morrow, and Brittney Sykes for extended stretches. The question the front office now carries into the offseason is whether the organization will build a role structure around a player of Rice's calibre, or ask her to absorb another season with insufficient support. At 19.0 games back in the Eastern Conference standings, the lottery is the next concrete test of that investment.
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Kiki Rice earned her All-Rookie recognition the way the 11-33 record earns very little — by performing against a standard the roster around her rarely met. Her 28 points in the 81-95 away loss to Connecticut Sun on September 24 landed as the season's closing argument: a guard absorbing a depleted rotation — seven players unavailable for that game alone — and still outscoring every Connecticut Sun player on the floor that night. The standard the organisation set entering an acknowledged rebuild is production from young players that justifies the investment in them. Rice met it. What Toronto's front office does with that is the real question entering the offseason: her All-Rookie selection, confirmed per Medicine Hat News, gives the organisation a verified asset at guard heading into free agency and roster construction. A 19.0-game deficit in the standings is not fixed in one offseason, but knowing where the performance baseline lives — and who established it — is where the work begins.
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Kiki Rice's All-Rookie recognition, confirmed per CFJC Today Kamloops, arrived after a season that asked more of her than any 11-33 record should. Her 28-point performance in the 81-95 away loss to Connecticut Sun closed a three-game stretch in which Toronto scored 235 points and allowed 298 — that's the standard the organization now has to answer to, not around. Seven players listed out for the final game alone, including Aneesah Morrow and Brittney Sykes lost for the year to knee and foot injuries respectively, meant Rice was absorbing minutes and pressure that a healthier roster would have distributed. The All-Rookie selection confirms the individual performance met a league standard. Whether Sandy Brondello's club can build a roster around that performance — one that doesn't require a 28-point night just to keep a score respectable — is the question a 19.0-game-back finish puts squarely in front of the front office this offseason.
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Kiki Rice's 28-point performance in the 81-95 away loss to Connecticut Sun on September 24 is the number worth sitting the season on — not because it salvaged anything, but because it named the standard the Tempo need to build toward. Rice earned her All-Rookie selection, confirmed by the Toronto Star on October 14, and the honor lands in the right context: a franchise that finished 11-33, 19.0 games back, needs to know what it actually has. A guard who produces at that level while seven teammates were unavailable for stretches of the final weeks is a real answer to a real question. The -63 point differential across the last three games, this paper reported on October 13, confirmed how far the roster around her still needs to travel. The draft lottery is the next concrete test of whether the front office turns that losing record into the investment the rebuild requires.
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Toronto's final three games allowed 298 points while scoring 235, a -63 differential that confirmed what this paper said on 9 October — the defensive standard was not held. That is the performance Sandy Brondello's group closed the season on: three losses, none close, with the 69-106 home loss to New York Liberty the starkest of the three. An eight-game losing streak does not happen by accident. It happens when the scheme that is supposed to limit opponent scoring stops functioning, and Toronto had too many nights this season where it stopped early. Seven players unavailable at various points meant Brondello was regularly asking a shortened rotation to execute at a level that required depth. The question the off-season now puts in front of this organization is whether the scheme itself was sound and undermined by absences, or whether the scheme needs rethinking before new personnel are layered on top of it.
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A rebuilding club is measured by whether its defense holds together while the roster is still being assembled, and Toronto's last three games say it did not. The Tempo went 0W-3L in the window, scoring 235 points and allowing 298, a differential of -63. The 69-106 home loss to New York Liberty set the tone, and the 85-97 away loss to Chicago Sky and the 81-95 away loss to Connecticut Sun followed. The 11-33 finish leaves them 19.0 games back in the standings. The scoring held above 80 in two of those three games, so the failure sits on the other end: opponents averaged just under 100. Seven players out is the likeliest reason the rotation never settled, though nothing on record establishes that link. The next test is the opening stretch of the following schedule, where Sandy Brondello's group has to cut points allowed below the 99.3 per game it conceded here.