The Indiana Fever will be facing elimination on Wednesday night in Connecticut, as they dropped Game 1 of their best-of-3 first round series with the . The Sun gave the Fever fits with their defense, and Indiana went ice-cold from beyond the arc (6-of-28 from three) in a 24-point loss. Internally, the focus for the Fever has to be how to get Caitlin Clark and Kelsey Mitchell back into the rhythm that saw them dominate the second half of the season to get the 6-seed.
Those two combined to go 4-of-23 from deep and have to crack the code of Connecticut’s length and pressure on the perimeter if they’re going to force a Game 3 in Indiana. However, on the outside, some have focused on a play that happened early in the game in which Clark got poked in the eye after making a pass, as DiJonai Carrington’s follow through as she reached for the ball saw her catch Clark in the eye. It was, pretty clearly, an inadvertent poke, but as is the case with everything involving Caitlin Clark, some have opted to make it a much bigger deal.
Most notably, the highlighting how earlier in the season Carrington had mocked Clark for flopping, insinuating this was something intentional and drumming up some outrage. On Tuesday, Clark was asked about the incident and those that think it was intentional and laughed at the idea it was anything malicious or purposeful. Asked Caitlin Clark on what she’d say to the crowd that thinks the Carrington hit to her eye was on purpose: “It wasn’t intention.
