INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 29 -- Ninety minutes before tip-off Thursday, Kelsey Mitchell was sitting in the Indiana Fever locker room finishing a paper on her laptop. Then she went out and scored 34 points.

"I've never seen anything like it," Caitlin Clark said after Indiana's 111-91 dismantling of the Connecticut Sun at Gainbridge Fieldhouse. "We'll be in there literally 90 minutes till tip and Kelsey's literally on her laptop typing a paper. And then she goes and drops 30."

It was Mitchell's 24th consecutive game scoring 20 or more points, a new WNBA record, and it arrived alongside Clark's own 34 points and 12 assists to make Indiana's two offensive pillars the first duo in league history to each reach 30 points in the same game four times d...