Former Wildcat and current Atlanta Dream guard Rhyne Howard made her 129th 3-pointer of the season, setting the WNBA single-season record in the team\u2019s 103-59 win over the Connecticut Sun.<\/p>\n
Howard entered the game tied with New York Liberty guard Sabrina Ionescu\u2019s record of 128 triples set in 2023.<\/p>\n
The Tennessee native finally sank her tiebreaker on her ninth attempt of the game to break Ionescu\u2019s record, marking her only 3-pointer of the game.<\/p>\n
Over the summer she also became the fastest player in league history to reach 400 made three-pointers.<\/p>\n
Howard\u2019s record-breaking shot comes in an already impressive week for her, as days before the guard won a gold medal with Team USA at the FIBA Women\u2019s World Cup in Germany.<\/p>\n
She is also on the verge of breaking yet another record for most steals in a WNBA season, needing just five to pass Teresa Weatherspoon.<\/p>\n
In her time with Kentucky, Howard was selected No. 1 overall in the 2022 WNBA Draft, becoming Kentucky women\u2019s basketball\u2019s first-ever top selection.<\/p>\n
In 114 career games, she led the Wildcats in scoring 19 times, rebounding 15 times, assists 11 times, steals 19 times, blocks 14 times and had 10 season double-doubles.<\/p>\n
Howard ranks second in school history in career scoring average at 20.1, first in career 3-pointers made with 284, fourth in career 3-point field-goal percentage at 38.2 and is fourth in program history in steals per game at 2.298.<\/p>\n
The guard scored her 2,000th career-point in a game against Vanderbilt, becoming just the third Wildcat in school history to record 2,000 or more points in 100 games or less.<\/p>\n
Concluding her Wildcat career, Howard scored 2,290 career points, making her second in UK history in points scored.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Wildcat and current Atlanta Dream guard Rhyne Howard made her 129th 3-pointer of the season, setting the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":905119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-905118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905118","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=905118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/905119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}