Mohegan — Natisha Hiedeman is from Green Bay, Wisconsin, “little old Green Bay,” she called it earlier this week.

“I feel the same way about Connecticut,” Hiedeman said. “I just think this has always been my home coming right out of college. This was my first training camp. This is where I started out. This is where the vets showed me the way.

“The fans, the community, just the support staff, all the way from top to bottom, I would just say that this just feels like home. I’m a very homebody type of person.”

That led Hiedeman, who spent her first season in 2022 as the Connecticut Sun’s starting point guard — a journey which led the Sun all the way to the WNBA Finals — to re-sign with Connecticut as a restricted free agent. Hiedeman signed a two-year deal in February.

Her most recent contributions have been multi-faceted for the Sun (12-3), who face the New York Liberty (9-3) at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Mohegan Sun Arena. The Liberty beat the Sun earlier this season in New York, 81-65.

Hiedeman is averaging 8.3 points and 3.5 assists, finishing with 14 points and five assists in Connecticut’s 96-72 home victory Sunday over the Chicago Sky.

Hiedeman, who has at least one 3-pointer in each of the Sun’s last four games, is eighth in franchise history with 176 and 14th in assists at 310.

There is also a matter of her defense, with Hiedeman locking down Dallas leading scorer Arike Ogunbowale in a matchup on June 4, holding Ogunbowale to a season-low eight points. Hiedeman, who didn’t score in the game, “exhausted herself defensively,” according to first-year head coach Stephanie White.

Listed at 5-foot-8, 135 pounds, Hiedeman is a 2019 graduate of Marquette who was drafted in the second round by Minnesota and sent to the Sun via a draft-day trade.

She was the Big East Conference Player of the Year as a senior with career highs in points per game (18.1), field goal percentage (.440), 3-point percentage (.392), rebounds (210), steals (70) and blocks (19). She set the single-season program record with 93 3-point field goals.

“She can get through anything,” White said, praising Hiedeman. “She doesn’t get hit by screens, she’s able to find her way around and through. She’s quick enough to be able to recover if she makes mistakes. Certainly we’d like her to add a few pounds and be a little stronger but I do think that’s probably the next step for her.

“She’s disciplined. She wants to execute the game plan. She wants to have that responsibility of guarding an opponent, an opponent’s best perimeter player.”

White said she and Hiedeman watched film in the offseason, with Hiedeman gaining an understanding of White’s fast-paced, free-flowing system of offense.

“I would just say it was nice to have a coach that cared so much just to get started early with things,” Hiedeman said. “I know that it’s super-important for the coach and point guard relationship so I think that me, Ty (Harris) and Steph have really close relationships because I feel like everything goes through the point guard.

“She’s calling the plays, going through us and we have to relay it to the team. So I think that the relationship we were able to create earlier definitely helped for when I got here.”

The Liberty, who beat the Washington Mystics 89-88 Sunday in overtime, are led by 22.5 points per game from Breanna Stewart and 17.1 points from Sabrina Ionescu, who scored 31 in the win over Washington.

The Sun got 26 points and eight rebounds Sunday from DeWanna Bonner and a triple-double from Alyssa Thomas with 14 points, 11 rebounds and 12 assists. Connecticut had five players in double figures, including 17 from DiJonai Carrington off the bench.

“We’re getting contributions from everybody that steps on the floor and my favorite stat, 30 assists on 40 made field goals,” White said. “We’re just playing really well together.”

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