{"id":7116,"date":"2024-09-14T01:43:07","date_gmt":"2024-09-14T01:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=7116"},"modified":"2024-09-14T01:43:07","modified_gmt":"2024-09-14T01:43:07","slug":"indiana-fevers-caitlin-clark-sets-record-for-most-assists-in-a-single-wnba-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=7116","title":{"rendered":"Indiana Fever&#8217;s Caitlin Clark sets record for most assists in a single WNBA season"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"Article-subline\">Clark surpassed Alyssa Thomas&#8217; mark on Friday night versus Las Vegas<\/h2>\n<div class=\"ArticleAuthor\">\n<div class=\"ArticleAuthor-headshot\">\n<div class=\"HeadshotContainer \">\n<div class=\"Headshot Headshot--medium\">\n<p><a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/wnba\/players\/29362921\/caitlin-clark\/\">Caitlin Clark<\/a>\u00a0added another achievement to her historic rookie season on Friday when she broke the WNBA&#8217;s all-time single-season assist record during the\u00a0<a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/wnba\/teams\/IND\/indiana-fever\/\">Indiana Fever&#8217;s<\/a>\u00a0matchup with the defending champion Las Vegas Aces. Clark surpassed Connecticut Sun star\u00a0<a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/wnba\/players\/2130768\/alyssa-thomas\/\">Alyssa Thomas<\/a>&#8216; mark of 316, which she set a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>Clark needed five assists entering Friday and it didn&#8217;t take her long to get there. In the middle of the second quarter, she took the ball out of bounds on the sideline and hit\u00a0<a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/wnba\/players\/26677896\/kelsey-mitchell\/\">Kelsey Mitchell<\/a>, who had curled open off a series of screens. Mitchell then weaved her way into the lane for a bucket.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">317 assists in the (317) \ud83c\udfd9\ufe0f\ud83d\udd25<\/p>\n<p>Caitlin Clark broke the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WNBA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@WNBA<\/a> record for most assists in a season in her first year in Indy. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Wzz7XaCusx\">pic.twitter.com\/Wzz7XaCusx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Indiana Fever (@IndianaFever) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IndianaFever\/status\/1834746917735071893?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 14, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The No. 1 overall pick is only a few months into her professional career, but she&#8217;s already established herself as the most dynamic playmaker in the league thanks to her pick-and-roll craft and transition brilliance. Last month, she\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/wnba\/news\/caitlin-clark-rookie-assist-record-tracker-fever-star-passes-ticha-penicheiro-for-most-all-time-vs-storm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">broke Ticha Penicheiro&#8217;s long-standing rookie assist record<\/a><\/span>, and her 8.5 assists per game lead the league and would be the highest average ever for a rookie.<\/p>\n<p>Clark had a chance to make history on Wednesday, but she only had six assists in the Fever&#8217;s 86-75 loss to the Las Vegas Aces, which was her lowest assist total in two weeks.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7117\" src=\"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/58-300x224.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/58-300x224.png 300w, https:\/\/usdailys.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/58.png 463w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Clark has always been an incredible passer, but that aspect of her game was overshadowed in college by her long-range shooting. That has not been the case in the WNBA. Clark has already become the first rookie to record a triple-double and set the all-time single-game assist record with 19 in a win over the\u00a0<a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/wnba\/teams\/DAL\/dallas-wings\/\">Wings<\/a>\u00a0on July 17. She also has the Fever&#8217;s single-season assist record and the WNBA&#8217;s rookie assist record.<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body-ad-1\" class=\"gambling-partner-ad\">\n<div id=\"gambling_partner_flex_article\" class=\"ad-gambling-partner-flex-article GamblingPartnerAd lazyload lazypreload\" data-ad=\"gambling-partner-flex-article\" data-ad-unit=\"gambling_partner_flex_article\" data-google-query-id=\"CLna2tKmwYgDFSNTCAQd_-ED9Q\">\n<div id=\"Article-body\" class=\"article article-main-body Article-body\">\n<div class=\"Article-bodyContent\">\n<p>Furthermore, she&#8217;s recorded the fifth 30-point, 10-assist game in league history, broke the record for most games with at least 20 points and 10 assists (eight) in a single season and is on pace to become the fourth player to average at least 15 points, five rebounds and five assists per game for an entire season.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"taboola-60bb6f5f-575b-4aff-ac0b-c2d366e07ed7\" class=\"trc_related_container trc_spotlight_widget tbl-feed-container render-late-effect tbl-feed-frame-DIVIDER\" data-feed-container-num=\"1\" data-feed-main-container-id=\"taboola-60bb6f5f-575b-4aff-ac0b-c2d366e07ed7\" data-parent-placement-name=\"Feed - Below Article Feed - Test\" data-pub-lang=\"en\">\n<div id=\"taboola-60bb6f5f-575b-4aff-ac0b-c2d366e07ed7-sca1\" class=\"trc_related_container tbl-trecs-container trc_spotlight_widget\" data-card-index=\"1\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tbl-feed-header tbl-logo-right-position tbl-ccpa-container\">\n<div class=\"tbl-feed-header-logo\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clark surpassed Alyssa Thomas&#8217; mark on Friday night versus Las Vegas Caitlin Clark\u00a0added another achievement to her historic rookie season on Friday when she broke the WNBA&#8217;s all-time single-season assist &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7119,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7116\/revisions\/7119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}