{"id":401836,"date":"2026-01-11T22:25:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T22:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/401836\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T22:25:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T22:25:19","slug":"clark-has-triple-double-to-lead-fever-past-sky-93-58-as-tempers-flare-after-hard-foul-in-3rd-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/401836\/","title":{"rendered":"Clark has triple-double to lead Fever past Sky 93-58 as tempers flare after hard foul in 3rd quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) \u2014 Caitlin Clark opened the season with the third triple-double of her career, and the new-look Indiana Fever<\/a> dominated the final 16 1\/2 minutes Saturday to pull away from the revamped Chicago Sky 93-58. <\/p>\n

Last season\u2019s WNBA Rookie of the Year finished with 20 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists while blocking a career-high four shots. Aliyah Boston added 19 points, 13 rebounds and five blocks, while Natasha Howard scored 15 points in her Fever debut.<\/p>\n

DeWanna Bonner also scored seven points to move into third on the WNBA\u2019s career scoring last, passing Tina Thompson. Bonner now has 7,489 points.<\/p>\n

Indiana\u2019s victory margin matched the second-largest in franchise history.<\/p>\n

Angel Reese had 12 points and 17 rebounds for the Sky, who lost three of four last season to Indiana. Ariel Atkins added 11 points.<\/p>\n

But the game was defined by the newest chapter in the Clark-Reese rivalry.<\/a> This time, it came on a hard foul from Clark across Reese\u2019s arm, which jarred the ball loose and knocked Reese to the floor with 4:38 left in the third quarter. When Reese jumped up to confront Clark, Fever center Aliyah Boston stepped between the two players as Clark walked away from the skirmish.<\/p>\n

The referees upgraded Clark\u2019s foul to a flagrant 1 and assessed technical fouls to Reese and Boston following a replay review.<\/p>\n

But after Reese made one of two free throws and Courtney Vandersloot made a layup on the ensuing possession, Indiana closed the third quarter on a 9-0 run to take a 65-45 lead. The Sky never really threatened Indiana\u2019s lead.<\/p>\n

Fever coach Stephanie White earned the first win of her second coaching tenure in her first game back in the state where she won Indiana\u2019s 1994-95 Miss Basketball Award and led Purdue to the 1998-99 national championship. <\/p>\n

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AP WNBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/wnba-basketball<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INDIANAPOLIS (AP) \u2014 Caitlin Clark opened the season with the third triple-double of her career, and the new-look…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[2648,3691,9209,402,1760,438,72701,11649,5630,8262,2652,2839,12814,13426,99,4803,193852,434,13017,13016],"class_list":["post-401836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-aliyah-boston","tag-angel-reese","tag-ariel-atkins","tag-basketball","tag-caitlin-clark","tag-chicago-sky","tag-courtney-vandersloot","tag-dewanna-bonner","tag-il-state-wire","tag-in-state-wire","tag-indiana","tag-indiana-fever","tag-natasha-howard","tag-purdue-boilermakers","tag-sports","tag-stephanie-white","tag-tina-thompson","tag-wnba","tag-wnba-basketball","tag-womens-national-basketball-association"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}