New Delhi, Aug. 9 -- The most telling number in Indiana's 35-point destruction of Connecticut on July 22 was not Caitlin Clark's 27-point haul. It was that the Fever shot the floor apart at 56 percent efficiency and the Sun never found an answer for it. By the third quarter, the scoreboard had become a formality, and Clark's decision to acknowledge that fact with a glance toward it earned her a seventh technical foul and the most-discussed secondary story of the week. The Fever set a franchise record with 123 points. The Sun lost by 35.

85-75 in Uncasville on June 13, then 123-88 at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in July - and the season series does not have the texture of contested results. The Fever sit at 19-12, second in the Eastern Conferenc...