Caitlin Clark's Fourth Triple-Double Is Not Even the Wildest Fever Stat

Caitlin Clark put up 26 points, 10 rebounds, and 10 assists in Portland on Friday night. The triple-double is the headline. The bigger story is that the Indiana Fever just scored 100-plus points for the fifth straight game, and no team in WNBA history has ever done that. Final score was 112-98 at the Moda Center. Fifth straight win for Indiana. Fifth straight game over 100. Before this run, no WNBA team had ever strung together even four. The triple-double came from the least likely place Clark now has four career triple-doubles, which gives her the most by any guard in league history and ties her with Sabrina Ionescu for third most all time. She is also just the fifth player ever to record a 25-point triple-double. Here is the part worth noticing. Head coach Stephanie White said she did not even realize Clark had it until the locker room, and what impressed her was not the scoring or the passing. It was that all 10 rebounds came on the defensive end. > "She can do all of those things. And I think the area that she's continuing to get better in for us now is the defensive rebounding. She's always scoring and finding her open teammates. It was a really, really impressive effort from her tonight." That is a real development. Clark scoring 26 and dishing 10 is a Tuesday. Clark securing 10 defensive boards is a new tool, and it is the kind of thing that changes how you think about Indiana in a playoff series where possessions get tight. Clark also crossed 1,500 career points in the first half. That came in her 78th game. This offense is doing something nobody has done The scoring streak deserves its own paragraph because the numbers are absurd. | Fever milestone | Detail | |---|---| | Consecutive 100-point games | 5, a WNBA record | | Previous best by any team | 3 | | Season high | 123 points vs Connecticut on July 22, a 35-point win | | Tuesday's result | 109-95 over Seattle, Clark and Mitchell combined for 60 | Kelsey Mitchell is the other engine. She scored 26 on Friday, her 13th straight game with at least 20 points. That ties Diana Taurasi for the second longest streak in league history. Only A'ja Wilson's 15-game run in 2024 is longer. Mitchell also moved into sixth all time in WNBA three-pointers made with 749. Aliyah Boston was upgraded from probable to available after leaving Tuesday's game with a right lower leg injury, and she finished with 14 points, nine rebounds, and six assists. She also passed 900 career field goals, third in Fever franchise history. Her availability is the quiet swing factor here. She leads Indiana in rebounds, steals, and blocks per game. Boston's own read on the offense was simple. > "Everyone's just shooting the ball really well. It's super fun to be a part of and I know it's super fun for the fans to see. We just play really fast." What this means for the numbers If you are looking at Fever games, the totals market is the interesting part, not the sides. Indiana is scoring at a pace the league has never sustained, and books have to keep chasing it. The question is when the number gets so high that the value flips to the under. Five straight games over 100 is the kind of run that pulls closing totals upward faster than the underlying shooting percentages justify. Indiana shot 52.8 percent in the first half on Friday. That is excellent. It is also not sustainable across a full stretch, and hot shooting regresses even when the process is good. Portland is the other half of this. The Fire have lost four straight and also dropped a 98-83 game to the defending champion Aces on Tuesday. Bridget Carleton went 7-of-11 from three for 26 points on Friday and Carla Leite put up 20 points with 12 assists, so they are not incapable of scoring. They just cannot get anybody stopped right now. SBA takeaway Clark's triple-double is the clip everybody shares, but the record five-game 100-point streak is the actual signal. Indiana is playing the fastest and most efficient offense in WNBA history, and Aliyah Boston's leg is the variable that decides if it holds. Watch her injury report first. Beyond that, respect that the totals on Fever games are climbing, and the edge in a run like this usually shifts from the over to the under before the streak actually ends. Related reading - Caitlin Clark Drops Historic 45-10 Game as Fever Stun Storm - Jonquel Jones Completes the MVP Grand Slam as Record Crowd Packs WNBA All-Star - Azzi Fudd Drops 30, Makes History, and Calls Out Steph Curry