Fever's Clark first with 40-point, 10-assist game
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- Caitlin Clark finished with 45 points and 10 assists, becoming the first player in WNBA history to record 40-plus points and 10-plus assists in a single game, and set a Fever franchise scoring record.
- Clark did it in under 30 minutes, going 17-of-19 from the free-throw line and hitting six 3-pointers, including the go-ahead 26-footer with 39.1 seconds left and a 32-foot step-back career-high bomb earlier in the fourth.
- Clark scored 16 fourth-quarter points as Indiana erased a 88-82 deficit, and reached 200 career 3-pointers in just 74 games — the fastest in league history.
- Clark added four steals and two blocks, chasing down Flau'jae Johnson for the defensive stop that directly set up her game-winning 3-pointer.
- Kelsey Mitchell scored 30 points (17 in the first quarter) for her franchise-record ninth straight 20-point game; Clark and Mitchell became the first WNBA teammates with 40 and 30 in the same game.
- Clark played through a back injury that had limited her to roughly 25 minutes the previous two games, and said after the win she intends to play Saturday against the New York Liberty on the back end of a back-to-back.
Why it matters: Clark delivered the first 40-and-10 game in WNBA history on a minutes' restriction from a back injury, reinforcing her status as the league's centerpiece draw heading into a Saturday matchup against the Liberty that carries direct standings implications (Indiana sits 6th, New York 7th) and playoff seeding weight.
