how many points did Caitlyn Clark score today fever rookie Nets career high in win versus sky that sound the Phoenix Mercury heard was Caitlyn Clark and the Indiana Fever zoie passed them in the playoff race Clark scored a season High 31 points one better than her previous Mark and the fever moved up to sixth place in the 18 playoff field with a 100 to 81 win over the Chicago sky on Friday night though they have an identical 16-6 record as the Mercury the tie break is head-to-head meetings and the fever swept their three games against Phoenix this season it's honestly impressive how we started the season and now sitting at sixth place with eight games left Clark said referring to Indiana's one to8 start but you have to continue to execute down the stretch there is a lot of the Season left of course but given how Indiana started the season and the favorable schedule they have over the remaining 3 weeks Clark and the fever have to feel pretty good about where they stand only three of the fever's last eight games are against teams with winning records and only two are on the road the fever haven't made the playoffs since 2016 when Clark was a freshman in high school while Clark and the fever have played to soldout crowds almost everywhere this season Friday night's game was something special the Rivalry between Clark's fever and Angel Rec's sky has developed into one of the wnba's best this season and the interest reflected it duy MBA Legends Sue bird and Hall of of Famer Shaquille O'Neal were on hand as were players from the Chicago Bulls and bears with an average price of $334 as of Thursday morning it was the most expensive game in WNBA history according to tickpick knowing the interest there'd be for this game the sky used it to host the wnba's first Barbie theme night but Clark and the fever spoiled the party with their lopsided win it was Indiana's thirdd victory in a row and fifth in its last six games it also gave the fever the season series over Chicago having won three of their four meetings we wanted to win the season series with them that was kind of a focus Point Clark said last time here we were up 15 in fourth quarter and kind of fumbled it away so it was another opportunity for us to come in here and show what we're about and I thought we were really good and honestly I just had a lot of fun playing I thought we play with a lot of Joy Clark finished with 31 points her third 30o game of her rookie season she was eight of 14 from the floor including five of nine from three-point range she also had 12 assists giving her an 11th double double on the season she's also had a triple double but the stat that will surely please Clark the most is her three turnovers that's just one off her season low she did an excellent job taking care of the ball fever coach Christy side said that's just the growth that's things we weren't doing earlier and now she's recognizing those things Indian ind's next game is Sunday at the Dallas wings