{"id":31990,"date":"2025-07-29T14:23:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T14:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/31990\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T14:23:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T14:23:11","slug":"former-notre-dame-fighting-irish-star-makes-wnba-history-on-monday-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/31990\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Notre Dame Fighting Irish star makes WNBA history on Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Skylar Diggins didn\u2019t need a full game to rewrite the WNBA record book. She racked up 11 points, 12 rebounds, and 11 assists in under 23 minutes during Seattle\u2019s 101-85 win over the Connecticut Sun.<\/p>\n<p>Diggins shines in blowout win with fastest triple-double ever<\/p>\n<p>That stat line made her just the second player in Seattle Storm history to record a triple-double, and she did it in the fewest minutes ever recorded for one in the league.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Diggins sat out the fourth quarter as Seattle cruised after building a 32-point lead. Seven of her assists went to Nneka Ogwumike, who finished with a game-high 26 points.<\/p>\n<p>MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/wnba\/new-york-liberty\/news\/no-timetable-new-york-libertys-breanna-stewarts-return\/c54aab8b10909728c0a12b67\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:No timetable on return of Breanna Stewart for New York;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">No timetable on return of Breanna Stewart for New York<\/a><\/p>\n<p>She credited her aggressive rebounding to a midseason talk with coach Noelle Quinn, saying she made it a point to chase the ball more after the All-Star break.<\/p>\n<p>This wasn\u2019t Diggins\u2019 first triple-double of the month. She also notched one in the All-Star Game, the first in the event\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>Diggins said she wanted to bounce back from a rough game in Washington and do her part. She certainly did that.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Her coach and teammates knew what it meant. \u201cSky\u2019s been through a lot,\u201d Quinn said. \u201cIt was a big moment for her, and everyone on the team felt that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Seattle is back at it on Friday when they host the Los Angeles Sparks. The Storm are now third in the Western Conference with a 16-11 mark on the season.<\/p>\n<p>More WNBA News:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Skylar Diggins didn\u2019t need a full game to rewrite the WNBA record book. She racked up 11 points,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[4657,49,48,3458,632,4653,24593,7675,1611,4647,82,24594,630],"class_list":["post-31990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-breanna-stewart","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-connecticut-sun","tag-los-angeles-sparks","tag-nneka-ogwumike","tag-noelle-quinn","tag-seattle","tag-seattle-storm","tag-skylar-diggins","tag-sports","tag-triple-double","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}