Caitlin Clark has begun blazing a brand new path only a few months into her freshman season with the Indiana Fever.
In Wednesday night time’s recreation in opposition to the Dallas Wings, Clark broke the Indiana franchise report for many assists in a season in simply 26 video games.
The WNBA's No. 1 draft decide set a brand new scoring main 202nd help of the marketing campaign in opposition to Dallas, and added 5 extra assists earlier than the top of the third quarter.
It has been a sensational first WNBA season thus far for Clark, who has already damaged quite a few information within the large leagues after her distinguished school profession with Iowa.
Earlier this month she turned the primary participant to amass 400 factors, 150 assists and 100 rebounds, in addition to the primary to report a triple-double.
Caitlin Clark continues to interrupt new floor in her freshman season with the Indiana Fever
Clark is at the moment competing together with her arch-rival Angel Reese for this season's WNBA Rookie of the Yr award, and opinions are divided on who ought to win.
Like her teammate, Reese can be having fun with a stellar marketing campaign with the Chicago Sky and is at the moment second within the league for rebounds with 11.9 per recreation.
In the meantime, Clarke is the league's main scorer with a mean of 16.8 factors per recreation, whereas she additionally leads the assists charts with 7.8 factors per recreation.
The controversy continues over who would be the winner, with NBA legend Shaquille O'Neal this week naming Reese as his 'particular' front-runner.
O'Neal, who attended the identical school as Reese, mentioned on ESPN's SportsCenter, “I'm not simply saying this as a result of she went to LSU.”
,[But] I feel she's undoubtedly a front-runner for Rookie of the Yr.
'I give my vote to Angel.'
Regardless of choosing Reese as his Rookie of the Yr, Shaq praised Clarke for his record-breaking season thus far in Indiana.
He additional added, 'Caitlyn is a superb participant, the feminine Steph Curry.' [Clark and Reese] Have finished quite a bit for the sport.
'Caitlin and Angel, due to social media and all of the media retailers, actually introduced the game to the place it ought to have been 10 years in the past.
'That's why I'm very blissful for ladies's basketball, they at all times work onerous and their fundamentals are superb.
'However pay attention, Kaitlin Clark is a superb participant, Angel Reese is a superb participant … however I'm going to offer this award to Angel Reese proper now.'
