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Caitlin Clark’s sophomore season had been on ice for some time, ever since the 2024 rookie of the year aggravated a groin injury against the Connecticut Sun on July 15. Now, after Tuesday’s Game 5 loss in the WNBA semifinals to the Las Vegas Aces,
Caitlin Clark and Sophie Cunningham will watch as Lexie Hull and the rest of the Indiana Fever compete in Game 3 against the Las Vegas Aces on Friday.
Caitlin Clark watched the Indiana Fever ’s season end last week in the 2025 WNBA semifinals; they fell to A’ja Wilson and the Las Vegas Aces 3-2 in the best-of-five series. The former Iowa Hawkeyes star played in only 13 games this season due to multiple injuries, and she missed the postseason entirely.
The Indiana Fever’s dream playoff run hit a wall Tuesday night in Las Vegas. Playing most the entire season without sensation Caitlin Clark, the Fever struggled to match the physicality of the defending champion Aces, falling 90-68 in Game 2 of the WNBA semifinals. The best-of-five series is now tied 1-1 as the matchup shifts to Indianapolis.
Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark opened up about the severity of the injury that limited her to just 13 games in her second WNBA season.
Las Vegas Aces coach Becky Hammon called out the 'out of control' physicality in Game 2 of her team's semifinal series against the Fever.
Legendary UConn coach Geno Auriemma is the latest major figure in women's basketball to weigh in on the WNBA's officiating crisis. Speaking to the media Monday in Storrs after the Huskies' first official practice of the 2025-26 NCAA campaign,
The No. 6-seeded Fever would face the Mercury in the finals, who just eliminated the Lynx. Indiana has won four playoffs games so far, the most by any underdog team since the Sky in 2021 (Chicago went on to win the WNBA championship). Game 5 of Fever-Aces is Tuesday at 9:30 p.m. ET.
As the Aces head to Indiana for Game 3 of their WNBA semifinals series against the Fever on Friday, the pressure is on the officials to control the rough play.