Caitlyn Clark's second triple double propels fever to fifth straight win Indiana Fever fans re when Caitlyn Clark grabbed a rebound with 10.2 seconds left Wednesday it gave an even better ending to the team's fifth victory in a row Clark got her second triple double of the WNBA season in the closing seconds of the 93 to 86 win over Los Angeles she snared her 10th rebound to go along with 10 assists and 24 points Clark notched the first triple double ever by a WNBA rookie 19 points 13 assists 12 rebounds on July 6 and a victory over the New York Liberty she is the fifth hital NBA player to have multiple triple doubles in a season Clark had 17 triple doubles in her Iowa college career and the hocky won all those games also Wednesday Clark made four three-pointers and is now at 102 for the season she is the quickest to reach 103p pointers in double NBA history doing so in her 34th game earlier in the day Clark was named to Y NBA rookie of the month and Eastern Conference player of the month for August she smiled Wednesday on court when she got the last rebound acknowledging afterward that she knew about the triple double because of the scoreboard her teammates and the crowd of 16,640 at gamebridge Fieldhouse knew right away too every game she gets a little better said Indiana's Christy sides who was named the U NBA coach of the month Wednesday every game she gets a little bit more understanding of the speed and the quickness I love the conversation with her about the game she's playing really well she had some amazing assists tonight the figer earned their first playoff birth since 2016 on Tuesday thanks to losses by Atlanta and Chicago so they started a six-game home stand Wednesday with a lot of energy in the arena the last place Sparks battled throughout but Indiana prevailed like Clark Aaliyah Boston finished with 24 points for Indiana adding 14 rebounds and four assists it was Boston's 12th double double this season Kelsey Mitchell had 18 points and Alissa Smith 13 for the fever who are now 18 to 16 this is the first time the fever have won at least five games in a row since a six-game winning streak in the 2015 season when they went to the WNBA finals and fell to Minnesota Indiana is now 7 to1 since D NBA play resumed after the Olympic break the fever's only loss in that stretch was August 24 at Minnesota which is Indiana's next opponent on Friday Wednesday was clk's third consecutive game with at least 20 points and 10 assists which is tied with Courtney Gander for Chicago in 2017 for the longest set streak overall Clark has seven games with at least 20 points and 10 assists that is a WNBA single season record and is already third on the WNBA career list behind vandersloot 10 and Phoenix's Diana teresi n Clark has scored or assisted on 224 points in the fever 5-game win streak which is yet another down NBA record previously that Mark was 220 by tesi in 2006 her third season in the league these are games you really need to win at home Clark said The more we can win the better we can position ourselves for the playoffs these fans spend a lot of money to come here and watch us and have fun with us so you want to kind of give them a show every time we're in here