Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark continued her chic debut WNBA marketing campaign by breaking one other rookie report in opposition to the Connecticut Solar on Wednesday.
The 22-year-old led the Fever to an 84-80 win in opposition to Connecticut, scoring 19 factors on the night time.
Clark’s haul included her 86th three-pointer of her opening season within the WNBA, serving to her to interrupt a rookie report set by Rhyne Howard on the Atlanta Dream in 2022.
Whereas Howard achieved her report of 85 three-pointers in a daily 34-game season, Clark hit her 86th in her thirty first sport.
It is the newest in a rising variety of record-breaking achievements from Clark throughout her opening marketing campaign within the WNBA.
Clark leads the WNBA this season in three-pointers, having prolonged her complete to 88 throughout the win in opposition to Connecticut.
She has already set a single-season rookie report (224) for assists and has extra assists and extra turnovers than some other participant within the league this season.
Clark was drafted as first choose by the Fever in 2024 after breaking a number of data in her faculty years on the College of Iowa.
Clark broke a 54-year report held by Pete Maravich in 2023 to turn into the all-time main scorer in males’s and girls’s faculty basketball with 3,951 factors.
She averaged 28.4 factors, 7.1 rebounds and eight.2 assists throughout her faculty years and helped enhance the recognition of ladies’s basketball.
Virtually 19 million folks tuned in to look at the Iowa Hawkeyes – Clark’s faculty aspect – of their Nationwide Collegiate Athletic Affiliation closing in 2023.