The Connecticut Sun don't have the kind of star power that the Phoenix Mercury do. So far, they haven't needed it.

After a balanced scoring attack lifted them to their sixth win in seven games, the Sun look to become the first team to reach 10 wins Wednesday night when they visit the Mercury.

Phoenix (2-6) has the top two scorers in the league in Cappie Pondexter and Diana Taurasi, but that duo hasn't been able to prevent the defending WNBA champion Mercury from falling to the bottom of the Western Conference.

Connecticut (9-2), meanwhile, has the best record in the league thanks to a variety of offensive options, none of whom rank in the league's top 13 in scoring.

The Sun had five players score at least 10 points - including two off the bench - in a 74-67 win over Seattle on Monday night. Reserve guard Barbara Turner had 13 points and hit four 3-pointers for her fourth straight game in double figures, and Sandrine Gruda added a season-high 10 points in 17 minutes off the bench.

"We're good enough to have the depth to be able to do that," Sun coach Mike Thibault said. "Our bench has been playing great most of the year. I thought they played really well and we got a spark from almost everybody."

With Pondexter and Taurasi struggling, the Mercury couldn't find the same spark in an 89-79 loss to Detroit in Saturday's rematch of last year's WNBA finals.

Pondexter and Taurasi are averaging 25.5 and 23.5 points, respectively, but they combined to shoot 6-for-37 from the field. Coach Corey Gaines, however, was more frustrated with his club's poor performance on the boards.

The Mercury, second-to-last in the league in rebound differential, were outrebounded 51-41 and gave up 15 boards to Alexis Hornbuckle - a season high for the 5-foot-11 rookie guard.

"We've shot badly and won games before, but they got loose balls at key situations," Gaines said. "Rebounding is not just a skill, it's just a matter of being hungry.

"We're going to work on things. You need the ball to be able to score. If you don't have the ball, you can have great scorers, but without the ball you can't score. So whatever it takes: Get the ball and get it done."

While rebounding was Gaines' primary concern, Pondexter is eager to find her shooting touch after going 13-for-46 (28.3 percent) from the field in the Mercury's back-to-back losses.

"I've been struggling a little bit with my shot. But it happens like that - it's the game of basketball," she said. "Now I've got to get to the gym, keep working hard and believing in myself."

Pondexter averaged 19.5 points and shot 45.9 percent as the Mercury split two games with the Sun in 2007. In the clubs' last meeting July 6 in Phoenix, she hit a winning 14-footer with 2.1 seconds remaining, capping a game in which each Mercury starter scored at least 15 points in a 111-109 in double-overtime victory.

Asjha Jones led six Connecticut players in double figures with 22 points in that contest - the highest-scoring game in the WNBA last season.