WNBA playoffs: Caitlin Clark and Indiana Fever swept in first round, Diana Taurasi plays potentially last ever game

WNBA playoffs: Caitlin Clark and Indiana Fever swept in first round, Diana Taurasi plays potentially last ever game

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The first round of the postseason concluded on Wednesday, with the Connecticut Sun and Minnesota Lynx booking their spots in the semifinals.

Here’s everything you need to know about which squads are moving on, and which groups are heading home.

Clark – who was named the unanimous AP WNBA Rookie of the Year on Sunday – led all scorers with 25 points and also had nine assists and six rebounds. She is the first rookie in league history to record at least 25 points, five assists and five boards in a playoff game and became the youngest player in history to achieve the feat.

“It’s a good little taste of what’s possible for this organization and for this franchise,” Clark told reporters after the game. “There’s a lot for us to hold our heads high about. This team won, I think, five games two years ago. We are a young group, a pretty inexperienced group, but we came together and had a lot of fun playing with one another … proud of this group. Stayed resilient all year and had a lot of fun together.”

After finishing her senior year at Iowa with a loss to South Carolina in the national championship game, Clark had just over a month to prepare for her WNBA debut.

“It will be good for me to kind of reflect back on everything that’s happened,” she said. “I feel like I didn’t have time to really reflect on my college career because it ended so fast.

“Then I came here and was trying to give everything I could to this team and kind of move on and put all that behind me and help this team get back to the playoffs. I feel like taking some time to myself and really enjoying that and reflecting back.”

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