INDIANAPOLIS—Kelsey Mitchell scored 27 points, Caitlin Clark added 23 points and nine assists, and Lexie Hull scored 12 of her career-high 22 points in the fourth quarter Sunday to help the Indiana Fever beat the Seattle Storm 92–75.
With 232 assists this season, Clark broke the WNBA rookie record of 224 set by by Ticha Penicheiro in 1998. Clark, the No. 1 overall pick in the 2024 draft, has scored at least 20 points in five of her past six games. She is averaging 23.7 points on 47 percent shooting from the field, and 11.7 assists over that span.
Mitchell hit 10 of 19 from the field and 5 of 8 from 3-point range, while Hull was 8-of-10 shooting and hit a career-best six 3s on seven attempts. Aliyah Boston grabbed 15 rebounds to go with nine points and a career-high eight assists for Indiana.
Jewell Loyd hit a jumper that cut the Storm’s deficit to 61-60 with nine minutes to play. Indiana’s Damiris Dantas made a free throw about a minute later, Hull hit two 3-pointers 35 seconds apart, and Mitchell added another from behind the arc before Boston hit a short jumper to cap a 14–5 spurt that made it 75–65 with 5:51 to go.
Seattle’s Skylar Diggins-Smith answered with consecutive buckets in the lane to make it a six-point game just 28 seconds later, but Hull again hit back-to-back 3s—this time in a 31-second span—to spark a 15–2 Indiana run. Clark followed with another 3-pointer and then assisted on 3s by Mitchell and Dantas, the second of which gave the Fever a 90-71 lead with 2:24 remaining.
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 just 20 of 54 from the field as the Storm shot just 38.9 percent (28 of 72) overall.
Indiana (13–15), which has matched its win total from 2023 with 12 games remaining in the regular season, has won back-to-back games coming out of the monthlong break for the Paris Olympics. The Fever has won four of five overall and are 10–5 after having won just three of 11 games to open the season.
