Caitlin Clark has made a traditionally large influence on the expansion of the WNBA throughout her rookie season with the Indiana Fever. The 22-year-old guard has already, arguably, change into the best player on her workforce and is essential to the Fever’s push towards their potential first playoff berth since 2016.
Indiana has simply 12 contests left within the common season and if Clark would not start to tone it down when disagreeing with recreation officers, the workforce might lose the famous person to a suspension.
Per Across the Timeline, the NCAA’s all-time main scorer is tied with Arike Ogunbowale and Kahleah Copper for the second-most technical fouls within the WNBA this season with 5. Diana Taurasi and Natasha Cloud tempo the league with six technicals apiece.
Clark’s first technical foul got here within the fourth quarter of the Fever’s 88-84 loss to the Connecticut Solar on Might 20, which dropped Indiana to 0-4. Clark’s subsequent technical got here up in the course of the first quarter of her workforce’s 88-82 defeat towards the Los Angeles Sparks on Might 28, which despatched the Fever to a 1-7 begin.
She was given a technical foul the very subsequent recreation on Might 30 within the second quarter of a 103-88 setback vs. the Seattle Storm earlier than going over one month till her subsequent one. Maybe uncoincidentally, Clark’s squad turned issues round in June and July, going 9-6 earlier than she was assessed a technical in the course of the third quarter of the group’s 81-74 victory towards the Minnesota Lynx on July 14.
One of many extra questionable technical fouls known as towards the Iowa product got here in the course of the third quarter of the Fever’s 92-75 win over the Storm on Sunday.
Indiana subsequent performs on Saturday on the highway towards the Lynx.