how many points did Caitlyn Clark score today fever rookie Nets career high in win versus Sky Chicago that sound the Phoenix Mercury heard was Caitlyn Clark and the Indiana Fever zooming past 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 tiebreak 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 1 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 sold out crowds almost everywhere this season Friday night's game was something special the Rivalry between Clark's fever and Angel Reese's sky has developed into one of the wnba's best this season and the interest reflected it WNBA Legends Sue bird and Hall 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 themed night but Clark and the fever spoiled the party with their lopsided win it was Indiana's third 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 played with a lot of joy