A big part of getting a good grade on WNBA draft night is often in place months before, when the lottery order is decided. In the case of the 2024 draft, the Indiana Fever really couldn’t mess it up after they got the first pick: Iowa Hawkeyes guard Caitlin Clark would give them an A-plus.
As was the case last season when the Fever also picked No. 1 and got South Carolina‘s Aliyah Boston, it was all smiles at Indiana headquarters Monday on draft night. Not just because Clark was officially in the fold and coach Christie Sides could already envision her passing the ball inside to Boston, last year’s WNBA Rookie of the Year, and NaLyssa Smith, the No. 2 pick in 2022, over and over and over.
But also because the Fever now have two of the greatest 3-point shooters in college hoops history on the same team. Clark is the NCAA record-holder, having finished with 548. Kelsey Mitchell, the No. 2 pick in 2018, had 497 3-pointers at Ohio State.
Between them, they compiled 7,353 points in college as the top two scorers in Big Ten history….
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