Kelsey Mitchell scored 27 points, Caitlin Clark contributed 23 points and nine assists, and Lexie Hull added 12 of her career-high 22 points in the fourth quarter on Sunday, leading the Indiana Fever to a 92-75 victory over the Seattle Storm.
Clark set a new WNBA rookie record with 232 assists this season, breaking the previous mark of 224 set by Ticha Penicheiro in 1998. The top pick in the 2024 draft has scored at least 20 points in five of her last six games.
She is averaging 23.7 points and shooting 47% from the field, along with 11.7 assists during this period.
Mitchell made 10 of 19 shots from the field and 5 of 8 from three-point range, while Hull was 8-of-10 shooting and made a career-high six 3-pointers on seven attempts. Aliyah Boston grabbed 15 rebounds, scored nine points, and set a career high with eight assists for Indiana.
Jewell Loyd scored a jumper to cut the Storm’s deficit to 61-60 with 9 minutes left. About a minute later, Indiana’s Damiris Dantas made a free throw, Hull hit two 3-pointers 35 seconds apart, and Mitchell added another 3 before Boston hit a short jumper to complete a 14-5 run, making the score 75-65 with 5:51 remaining.
Skylar Diggins-Smith scored two quick buckets to narrow the gap to six points just 28 seconds later, but Hull hit back-to-back 3s in a 31-second span, sparking a 15-2 run. Clark added another 3-pointer and then assisted on 3s by Mitchell and Dantas, with Dantas’s shot giving the Fever a 90-71 lead with 2:24 left.
Loyd led Seattle (17-10) with 26 points, Diggins-Smith scored 15, and Nneka Ogwumike added 14 points, nine rebounds, and four steals. The trio combined to make only 20 of 54 shots, as the Storm shot 38.9% (28 of 72) overall.
Indiana (13-15) has matched its win total from the 2023 season with 12 games remaining.
The Fever have won two games in a row after the month-long break for the Paris Olympics, winning four of their last five games and improving to 10-5 after starting the season with just three wins in their first 11 games.
