Hours later Indiana fever has broken out head coach Christie sides On Sunday, the franchise would already have its eyes on Sides’ successor.

Sides, who was hired in November 2022, led the Fever to a 20-20 record in 2024 and the team’s first playoff appearance since 2016. But on Sunday, she was fired in a surprising move then that the franchise seeks to shake things up from the top. down.

Stephanie White, currently under contract with the Connecticut Sun, is expected to take the helm in Indiana, according to Annie Costabile of the Chicago Sun-Times.

Nothing has been made official, but “multiple sources expect White to be Fever’s next coach,” Costabile wrote.

White, 47, has a long history with the Fever franchise. She played for Indiana, her original team, for four seasons from 2000 to 2004 and was an assistant coach with the Fever from 2011 to 2014 before being promoted to head coach in 2015. She led the Fever to the WNBA Finals. that year, where the team lost to the Minnesota Lynx. White would coach the Fever for one more season in 2016, when the team lost in the first round of the WNBA playoffs.

The Fever were reportedly in talks with White even before Sides’ firing, according to Costabile, so seeing White emerge as the leading candidate for the job isn’t a huge surprise.

With the Fever coming off one of its best seasons in recent history, White will have big shoes to fill, as she will be tasked with helping star guard Caitlin Clark develop in the years to come, among many other young Indiana players.