With 232 assists so far this season, Clark broke the previous WNBA rookie record of 224 by Ticha Penicheiro in 1998. The No. 1 overall pick in the 2024 draft has scored at least 20 points in five of her last six games. She is averaging 23.7 points on 47% shooting from the field, and 11.7 assists over that span.

Kelsey Mitchell hit 10 of 19 from the field and 5 of 8 from 3-point range to finish with 27 points, while Lexie Hull was 8-of-10 shooting and hit a career-best six 3s on seven attempts for a career-high 22 points. 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 9 minutes to play. Indiana’s Damiris Dantas made a free throw about a minute later, Hull hit a pair of 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.

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 run. Clark followed with another 3-pointer and then assisted on 3s by Mitchell and Dantas, the latter 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% (28 of 72) overall.

Indiana (13-15), which has matched its win total from the 2023 campaign 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 have won four of five overall and 10-5 after winning just three of 11 games to open the season.

Add yet another milestone to Caitlin Clark’s record-breaking 2024, her latest coming Sunday in the Indiana Fever’s 92-75 win over the Seattle Storm as she broke the WNBA single-season rookie mark for assists.

Clark, who leads the WNBA in assists at 8.3 per game, had 9 Sunday to reach 232, passing Ticha Penicheiro’s previous rookie record of 224 set in 1998.

Penicheiro was the No. 2 pick that year for the Sacramento Monarchs, who are no longer in the WNBA. She helped lead the Monarchs to the 2005 league championship and finished her career with 2,600 assists, third most in WNBA history.

Clark was four years from being born when Penicheiro came into the WNBA, and was 10 years old when Penicheiro retired. But Clark said the two connected during her college career at Iowa. And she knows enough to accurately describe Penicheiro, who is regarded as one of the most creative and exciting passers in women’s basketball history.

“If you watch her highlights, she was definitely a better passer than me,” Clark said. “She had way more flair to her game. She would spin around and make these crazy passes. I kind of just run in transition and chuck it up there and hope for the best.”

In fact, Clark’s passing is one of her top attributes. Along with scoring a Division I men’s and women’s record 3,951 points at Iowa, Clark had 1,144 assists, third in NCAA Division I women’s history. She topped Penicheiro’s WNBA rookie record in her 28th WNBA game; Penicheiro set her mark in 30 games.

With the expansion of the WNBA regular season to 40 games, Clark still has 12 games remaining to add to her assist total. The overall WNBA single-season assist record is 316, set last year in 40 games by the Connecticut Sun’s Alyssa Thomas.

Clark at her current pace could eclipse that in 11 more games. Thomas currently is second in the league in assists with 202 through 26 games.

• Caitlin Clark: 23 points (9-19 FG, 3-10 3-pt FG, 2-2 FT) 9 assists, 5 rebounds; 232 assists this season (WNBA rookie record)
• Clark: 10th game this season with 20 points, 5 rebounds, 5 assists (2nd most in WNBA history behind 2023 Breanna Stewart’s 12)
• Kelsey Mitchell: 27 points (10-19 FG, 5-8 3-pt FG, 2-2 FT) 3 assists, 3 blocks; consecutive 25-point games for first time this season
• Lexie Hull: 22 points (8-10 FG, 6-7 3-pt FG); career high in points and 3s
• Fever: 17-point win, Indiana’s largest this season
• Fever: 6-8 on open 3-pointers in 4th quarter (4-11 in first 3 quarters)
— ESPN Stats & Information

“If you’d told me I was going to lead the league in assists coming in here in my rookie season, I probably would have told you that you were lying,” said Clark, who also had 23 points, 5 rebounds and 2 blocks Sunday. “But I take a lot of pride in that. I want to set my teammates up first and foremost, because that’s going to help you have the most successful team.

“I’m always looking for my teammates in transition, that’s where I tend to thrive the most.”

Indiana, seventh in the WNBA standings, is now 13-15, matching last season’s win total. The Fever haven’t finished with a winning record since 2015, when they went 20-14 and made the WNBA Finals.

They haven’t made the playoffs since 2016, when they were 17-17.

“I think we just have a really balanced attack,” said Fever guard Lexie Hull, who had a career-high 22 points and was 6-of-7 from 3-point range Sunday. “It’s just really fun to watch when you have Caitlin running in transition — the ball can go anywhere, anyone can knock it down, our offense is just so fluid.”