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Alexa Philippou
ESPN
- Covers women’s college basketball and the WNBA
- Previously covered UConn and the WNBA Connecticut Sun for the Hartford Courant
- Stanford graduate and Baltimore native with further experience at the Dallas Morning News, Seattle Times and Cincinnati Enquirer
Rookies Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese keep extending their history-making seasons as the WNBA enters the final weeks of the playoff race.
On Sunday, they did it again.
Chicago forward Reese became the WNBA’s single-season rebounding leader, passing retired superstar Sylvia Fowles. Indiana guard Clark became the first WNBA player ever to have back-to-back games in the regular season with at least 25 points and 10 assists.
Reese’s 19 boards in the Sky’s loss at Minnesota moved her to 418 in 32 games, surpassing Fowles’ 404 in 34 games in 2018. Reese said afterward she wasn’t aware of the record.
“Tell me what I did, so I know,” Reese said in the Sky’s postgame news conference. “Because I’m not on social media….
