Up to date Sept. 18, 2026, 11:13 p.m. ET
Indiana Fever guard Kelsey Mitchell continued her stellar 2026 WNBA season on Friday, Sept. 18 by claiming one other report that was beforehand held by the league’s perennial MVP.
Throughout a 103-85 street win in opposition to the Toronto Tempo, Mitchell broke the WNBA single-season scoring report (1,021 factors in 38 video games) set by Las Vegas Aces star A’ja Wilson in 2024.
The record-breaking level got here with 7:57 remaining within the third quarter as Mitchell effortlessly related on a 24-foot 3-point jumper assisted by teammate Caitlin Clark.
Mitchell completed with 33 factors on 70.6 % taking pictures from the sphere with seven made 3-pointers.
She did not notice what she’d completed till she stopped for a postgame broadcast interview.
“I feel you simply instructed me, to be sincere,” Mitchell mentioned when requested about how she realized she’d set a brand new report. “Y’all understand how I get down. I simply need to have the ability to present up and reply when my quantity known as and simply be an excellent teammate, be an excellent particular person and simply present like to the sport like I am purported to.”
Mitchell reached 1,001 factors in 40 video games, turning into the second participant in WNBA historical past to succeed in the milestone. Wilson was the primary participant to succeed in 1,000 factors in a season and stays the quickest to take action.
Moreover, Mitchell broke Wilson’s report for consecutive 20-point video games earlier this 12 months. The Fever guard averaged 28.9 factors over 11 video games in August, which led the WNBA by almost 4 factors per recreation and marked the very best scoring common over at the very least eight video games in league historical past.
Wilson at the moment has 991 factors by means of 38 video games with three contests left within the season. The Aces star leads the league with a scoring common of 26.1 factors per recreation. It is doable she may nonetheless surpass Mitchell and set a brand new report for factors in a season.
Mitchell now has 33 video games with at the very least 20 factors and desires simply two extra such performances to interrupt Wilson’s single-season report for scoring 20 factors or extra in a recreation (34). Wilson additionally set that report in 2024 and will nonetheless tie it this season. Wilson was the league MVP in 2024 and final season. She is the one participant in league historical past to win 4 MVP awards and appears to be set for a fifth and third in a row.
Mitchell, who was drafted No. 2 total by the Fever out of Ohio State in 2015, is the league’s second-leading scorer at 25 factors per recreation.
Mitchell additionally set the brand new Fever report for many three-pointers made in a single season in franchise historical past on Friday, making her 123rd profession triple with 5 minutes till halftime.
That shot was additionally assisted by Clark, who recorded 28 factors and 14 assists within the recreation. Clark beforehand held the staff’s single-season 3-point report with 122 made threes in her rookie season in 2024.
As fifth-seeded Indiana enters the postseason, the group is campaigning for Mitchell and Clark as co-MVPs this season.
Friday’s win prolonged their WNBA single-season report as the very best scoring backcourt duo in league historical past, with 20 video games scoring at the very least 20 factors every.
