Caitlin Clark's 9 assists Sunday upped her single-season total to 232, breaking the previous WNBA rookie record of 224 set by Ticha Penicheiro in 1998.
Michael Voepel is a senior writer who covers the WNBA, women's college basketball and other college sports. Voepel began covering women's basketball in 1984, and has been with ESPN since 1996.
Penicheiro was the No. 2 pick that year for the Sacramento Monarchs, who are no longer in the WNBA. She helped lead the Monarchs to the 2005 league championship and finished her career with 2,600 assists, third most in WNBA history.Clark was four years from being born when Penicheiro came into the WNBA, and was 10 years old when Penicheiro retired. But Clark said the two connected during her college career at.
In fact, Clark's passing is one of her top attributes. Along with scoring a Division I men's and women's record 3,951 points at Iowa, Clark had 1,144 assists, third in NCAA D-I women's history. She topped Penicheiro's WNBA rookie record in her 28th WNBA game; Penicheiro set her mark in 30 games.
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