Caitlin Clark broke the WNBA record for assists in a game with 19 in the  Indiana Fever‘s 101-93 road loss to the Dallas Wings on Wednesday night, the final game leaguewide prior to the monthlong Olympic break.

The previous single-game assist record was 18 by Courtney Vandersloot for Chicago on Aug. 31, 2020. Vandersloot also had 18 in a playoff game on Sept. 28, 2021.

Clark, the No. 1 pick in the 2024 draft and NCAA Division I all-time scoring leader, also had 24 points on 10-for-19 shooting. She scored or assisted on 66 points for the Fever — the most in a game in WNBA history, surpassing a 65-point effort from Diana Taurasi on Aug. 10, 2006.

Clark became the second rookie in league history, joining Candace Parker in 2008, to score or assist on 50 or more points in multiple games.

Her career high for assists in college at Iowa was 18 at Penn State on Jan. 25, 2022, while her previous WNBA season high was 13, set four times, most recently in a 95-86 victory over  Phoenix on Friday night.

Clark’s stat line marked the second 20-point, 15-assist game in league history, with the other belonging to Vandersloot in 2018. It was Clark’s third game with 20-plus points and 10-plus assists; only Angel McCoughtry in 2009 had ever recorded such a game before as a rookie.

“She’s going to say it means nothing, but I think it’s pretty cool,” teammate Aliyah Boston, who finished with a career-high 28 points, said of Clark’s accomplishment.

“I just try to set my teammates up for success,” said Clark, who had nine dimes to Boston alone and helped the Fever score 62 points in the paint. “I think at times I can almost overpass … especially with AB, I’m just looking to set her up so much. My eyes are just always on our post players.”

Clark is the first rookie and ninth player overall in WNBA history with at least 400 points and 200 assists in a season. Chelsea Gray has three such seasons, Alyssa Thomas has two and six other players — Sue Bird, Jordin Canada, Natasha Cloud, Sabrina Ionescu, Courtney Williams and Vandersloot — have one each.

Said Fever coach Christie Sides: “[Clark] has the ability and her vision to see things, and we’re just getting better and better as we play with her to be on the same page with her … 19 assists is incredible. That’s incredible.”

Following her record-breaking performance, Clark went from -1000 to -2000 odds for WNBA Rookie of the Year honors at ESPN BET, while the Sky’s Angel Reese moved from +500 to +600.

Now 26 games into the season, Clark has scored or assisted on 915 points, a rookie single-season record. Her 213 assists on the season are also second most by a rookie in league history and are approaching Ticha Penicheiro’s record of 225.

But after the game, the Fever lamented leaving Dallas without a win. Now 6-19, the Wings are in last place in the WNBA standings, and Indiana is aware that every game matters as it seeks to return to the playoffs for the first time since 2016.L