INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Caitlin Clark scored a career-high 35 points and added eight assists to lead the Indiana Fever to a 110-109 victory over the Dallas Wings on Sunday.
Clark, who set a single-season WNBA record with 329 assists, has also set a rookie record with 761 points this season, surpassing Seimone Augustus’s mark of 744 points set in 2006.
The Fever (20-19), coming off back-to-back losses to the two-time defending WNBA champion Las Vegas Aces, clinched the No. 6 seed in the playoffs, which start next Sunday. They will face the third-seeded Connecticut Sun, who won three of their four regular-season matchups, in the first round.
Indiana matched its franchise record for single-game scoring and tied its season high for made 3-pointers. The Fever shot 38 of 76 from the field, 47% from beyond the arc, and 18 of 21 (86%) from the free-throw line.
Clark made a driving layup, stole a pass, and then added another layup off a screen from Temi Fagbenie to give the Fever a 90-86 lead with 6:35 remaining. Teaira McCowan scored inside to cut the deficit to two, but Clark answered with back-to-back 3-pointers and a free throw after a transition take foul, pushing the lead to 97-88 with four minutes left.
Arike Ogunbowale scored a contested runner and a layup to fuel an 8-0 run that brought the Wings within one point with 2:27 to go. Mitchell then hit a 3-pointer off an inbounds pass from Clark, and after Satou Sabally scored in the paint, Damiris Dantas hit two 3-pointers in 25 seconds to give Indiana a 106-98 lead with a minute remaining.
The Fever have split their previous two meetings this season with Dallas, with each team winning at home and scoring over 100 points.
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