Minute-by-minute report: The former Iowa star is making her start as a professional in the regular season. Beau Dure has the latest news
Please turn on JavaScript to use this featureGive credit where it’s due – this shouldn’t be about Clark and the Fever struggling. The Sun look good.Temi Fagbenle knocks down a Connecticut defender and scores. I said it in the last game I covered – I’ll never understand why that’s legal.Clark spins past Carrington and gets into the lane, and she gets clobbered. Ouch. She hits both free throws and now has four points.Kelsey Mitchell hits two free throws for Indiana, but the Sun are … well, hot.
ESPN talks with Indiana coach Christie Sides, who shakes her head and laments silly fouls and missed free throws. While they chat, DiJonai Carrington makes a layup for Connecticut and is fouled. She makes the free throw, and the lead is nine.Kelsey Mitchell makes a good cut to the basket and takes a feed from Boston, drawing the foul. She hits one of two free throws.
Clark’s first shot is one of those wild layups she sometimes tried at Iowa. And sometimes hit. But not this time. On the next possession, she misses another one. They were finalists in 2019, losing to Washington, and 2022, losing to Las Vegas in an all-casino matchup. Last year, they lost in the conference finals to the New York Liberty, who are led by the last women’s college phenom to break into the public consciousness, Sabrina Ionescu.
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