Caitlin Clark’s efficiency within the Indiana Fever’s shut win towards the Washington Mystics was history-making, and after the sport she etched her identify even additional into the WNBA file books.
The Fever rookie sat at 202 factors, 76 assists and 64 rebounds in simply 12 video games. She turned the quickest WNBA participant to achieve no less than 200 factors and 50 assists in league historical past, in keeping with Bleacher Report by way of Stat Mamba on social media.
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Caitlin Clark of the Indiana Fever talks to the media earlier than the sport towards the Mystics at Capital One Arena on June 7, 2024, in Washington, D.C. (G Fiume/Getty Images)
Indiana received the sport 85-83 over the Mystics. She additionally tied a WNBA file with seven made 3-pointers and joined New York Liberty star Sabrina Ionescu as the one WNBA gamers to place up a 30-5-5 stat line as rookies.
“It felt good to shoot the ball nicely,” Clark mentioned after the sport. “I really feel like even my misses have been proper there.”
The efficiency was adopted up by experiences that indicated Clark could be left off of the U.S. Olympic nationwide girls’s basketball roster.
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Caitlin Clark of the Indiana Fever high-fives teammates through the Mystics recreation on June 7, 2024, at Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C. (Kenny Giarla/NBAE by way of Getty Images)
Clark was the No. 1 decide of the WNBA Draft in April after main Iowa to back-to-back nationwide championship video games and setting the mark for all-time scoring in faculty basketball. She was unable to attend nationwide coaching camp in Cleveland after she was invited as a result of Iowa was within the Final Four.
Over the final two years, Clark has drawn tens of millions of recent followers to the sport. The Iowa-South Carolina nationwide championship was the most-watched girls’s faculty basketball recreation and her video games with the Fever are among the many prime in WNBA rankings this season, to not point out the fan help she’s obtained at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis and elsewhere.
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Caitlin Clark of the Indiana Fever passes the ball towards the Washington Mystics at Capital One Arena on June 7, 2024. (G Fiume/Getty Images)
Instead, the U.S. Olympic roster will likely be loaded with veterans seeking to seize the crew its tenth gold medal, and probably its eighth straight.
Fox News’ Ryan Morik contributed to this report.
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