The team's fortunes changed in August when they won their first four games of the month and secured a spot in the 2022 WNBA Playoffs.
The Wings announced on August 12 that Arike Ogunbowale would miss the rest of the regular season and the 1st Round of the 2022 WNBA Playoffs after she underwent a iliac crest core muscle avulsion repair.
[1] The Wings went 1–2 in regular season games Ogunbowale missed and the team finished August 5–2.
The last time the franchise won eighteen games in a season was in 2015, when they were known as the Tulsa Shock.
Home court did not prove advantageous, as the Wings lost game three by fifteen points.