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 title even additional into the WNBA report books.
The Fever rookie sat at 202 factors, 76 assists and 64 rebounds in simply 12 video games. She grew to become the quickest WNBA participant to achieve a minimum of 200 factors and 50 assists in league historical past, in response to Bleacher Report through Stat Mamba on social media.
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Indiana received the sport 85-83 over the Mystics. She additionally tied a WNBA record 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 effectively,” Clark stated after the sport. “I really feel like even my misses have been proper there.”
The efficiency was adopted up by studies that indicated Clark can be left off of the U.S. Olympic nationwide ladies’s basketball roster.
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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 school basketball. She was unable to attend nationwide coaching camp in Cleveland after she was invited as a result of Iowa was within the Remaining 4.
During the last two years, Clark has drawn tens of millions of latest followers to the sport. The Iowa-South Carolina nationwide championship was the most-watched ladies’s school 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 acquired at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis and elsewhere.
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As a substitute, the U.S. Olympic roster will likely be loaded with veterans seeking to seize the crew its tenth gold medal, and presumably its eighth straight.
Fox Information’ Ryan Morik contributed to this report.
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