Kelsey Mitchell broke the WNBA scoring record for a single season on Friday night, dropping 33 points in the Indiana Fever’s 103 to 85 win over the Toronto Tempo at Coca-Cola Coliseum. She now sits at 1,034 points, passing the 1,021 A’ja Wilson scored for the Las Vegas Aces in 2024, and she still has three games left to add to it.
Mitchell came into the night needing 21 points. She got there with 7:57 left in the third quarter, pulling up from 24 feet off a Caitlin Clark assist and knocking it down. By the final buzzer she had gone 12 of 17 from the field and 7 of 11 from three, the same kind of efficiency that has carried her all season.
The celebration caught her completely off guard. When confetti came down as she walked into the Fever locker room, Mitchell assumed coach Stephanie White had hit another milestone. Then her teammates started heading straight for her. “I put two together that it was for me,” she told The Associated Press.
Mitchell kept the spotlight on the group. “It’s always about a team thing for me,” she said, crediting the people around her who want to see her be great.
Clark was not nearly as modest on her behalf. She said people don’t realize how insane Mitchell’s year has been and that it isn’t talked about enough. I’ve never seen anything like it,” Clark said, going as far as saying some NBA players haven’t scored as efficiently as Mitchell has this season. White told reporters she hopes nobody takes what they are watching for granted, calling it unprecedented.
The new WNBA scoring record is one line on a long list. Mitchell has now scored at least 20 points in 25 straight games, extending the league record she already owned after passing Wilson’s old streak of 20. She has not been held under 15 points in a single game this year. Her third three of the night also moved her past Clark for the most threes in a single Fever season, a mark Clark set in 2024. And this is the third straight year Mitchell, now in her ninth season, has raised her scoring.
There is a schedule conversation attached to this, and it is fair. The WNBA expanded its regular season to 44 games in 2025. Wilson’s version of the WNBA scoring record came in 38 games back when the season was only 40 games long. Mitchell passed it in her 41st game. The extra games have also helped Alyssa Thomas set the single season assists record and Angel Reese set the rebounds record. Sports has been here before. Roger Maris hit 61 home runs in a 162 game season to pass Babe Ruth’s 60, which came in 154 games, and that record still stands in the books.
Mitchell owning the most points in a season also does not make her the scoring champion. The WNBA awards that title by average, and Wilson leads the league at 26.1 points per game to Mitchell’s 25.2. Wilson is on track for her third straight scoring title. She sits at 991 points with three games left and will almost certainly cross 1,000, which would make her and Mitchell the only two players in league history with a 1,000 point season. She cannot catch Mitchell’s total, though, after missing three games early this season with an ankle injury. Mitchell is also on pace to join Wilson and Diana Taurasi as the only players ever to average 25 points over a full season.
Clark had a night of her own in her first game back since helping the United States win gold at the FIBA Women’s World Cup. She finished with 28 points and 14 assists, her 10th game this season with at least 25 points and 10 assists. No other player in WNBA history has done that as many times over an entire career. Together, Mitchell and Clark have the Fever averaging 97.1 points per game, on pace to pass the league record of 93.9 set by the 2010 Phoenix Mercury.
Indiana improved to 27 and 14, tied with Atlanta, with three games left in the regular season.
