Clark, Mitchell set mark for WNBA duo in Fever win
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- Kelsey Mitchell scored 29 points and Caitlin Clark added 24 as the Indiana Fever beat the Toronto Tempo 101-95 on Tuesday for their fifth straight victory.
- Clark and Mitchell have each scored 20 or more points in the same game 16 times this season, a WNBA record that surpasses Diana Taurasi and Cappie Pondexter's mark of 15 such games with Phoenix in 2008.
- Mitchell matched Las Vegas' A'ja Wilson for the longest 20-point streak in WNBA history at 20 consecutive games, but she exited to the locker room late in the third quarter after appearing overheated — the second health-related exit in roughly a year after she was hospitalized for leg cramps during last year's semifinals Game 5.
- Indiana is 12-3 over its past 15 games, the third-best mark in the WNBA behind the Minnesota Lynx (13-1) and Golden State Valkyries (9-2), and Tuesday marked the Fever's 16th 100-point game this season — five more than any other team has scored in a single WNBA season.
- Sophie Cunningham drew a mix of cheers and boos at Scotiabank Arena, with fans cheering when she missed her first free throw — following her ESPN profile in which she said she opposes transgender girls and women competing in girls' and women's sports; later, a banner supporting transgender rights was shown on the video screen during a timeout.
- Toronto lost its 11th straight game, tying the Seattle Storm (twice) for the longest losing streak in the WNBA this season, despite Marina Mabrey's 22 points and Brittney Sykes' 15 in her return from a left plantar fascia injury that had sidelined her since June 16.
- Aneesah Morrow recorded 15 points and 16 rebounds off the bench for Toronto, joining Sharon Manning (1998) as the only players with multiple 15-rebound games off the bench in a single WNBA season.
Why it matters: Indiana's 12-3 run over its last 15 games ranks third in the WNBA behind only the Lynx and Valkyries, cementing the Fever as a real postseason threat built around the league's most prolific scoring duo. Mitchell's overheating exit — her second health scare in roughly a year — is a durability flag for a contender whose ceiling depends on her 24.2-points-per-game workload.
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