Caitlin Clark has career-high 35, sets rookie scoring mark in Fever win - ESPN

Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark recalls Seimone Augustus being the first WNBA player she ever met when she went to a Minnesota Lynx game as a child.

On Sunday, Clark set the WNBA rookie season scoring record, previously held by Augustus, and called it a full-circle moment.

«I got my picture with her on my dad's little phone — it was maybe like a Blackberry back in the day,» Clark said after Indiana's 110-109 win over Dallas. «I vividly remember it. I was always a fan of her game and the way she could shoot the ball.»

Clark now has 761 points in 39 games, so there is the caveat that Augustus — who will be inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in October — set her mark of 744 points in 2006, when the WNBA season was 34 games.

Regardless, it was a big afternoon for Clark, who had a career-high 35 points, and the Fever, who secured the No. 6 seed in the playoffs. Indiana is 20-19 and will finish the regular season Thursday at Washington.

«Everybody is definitely excited for the playoffs,» Clark said of the Fever's upcoming postseason trip, their first since 2016. «We're not just happy to be there. We really feel like we can compete with every single team.»

The only team Indiana hasn't defeated this season is the two-time defending champion Las Vegas Aces. The Fever fell twice to the Ace this past week in Indianapolis. But they got back on the winning track Sunday in a game where both teams' offenses ruled.

Dallas, 9-30 and already eliminated from playoff contention, shot 56.8% from the field and was led by 27 points each from Arike Ogunbowale and Satou Sabally.

Clark and teammate Kelsey Mitchell (30 points) each had 6 3-pointers against the Wings. It was the third time in WNBA history that two teammates hit at