Caitlin Clark is headed to the WNBA playoffs in her rookie season.
The rookie star guard led the Indiana Fever to their first playoff berth since 2016 on Tuesday night despite it being an off day for the team.
It also ended the franchise’s seven-season postseason drought, the longest in WNBA history.
The No. 1 draft pick, widely considered the front-runner for WNBA Rookie of the Year, and the Fever advanced to the postseason thanks to Las Vegas’ 90-71 win over Chicago and Phoenix’s 74-66 win against Atlanta on Tuesday night.
Indiana, which moved to 17-16 after a win Sunday, has its first winning record since June 2019 and is in sixth place.
Eight teams qualify for the WNBA playoffs and seven spots are set now.
Phoenix (17-17) also earned its playoff berth Tuesday after missing the postseason last year for the first time since 2012.
Chicago and Atlanta, both 11-22, are battling for the final spot with Washington, which beat Dallas 90-86 on Tuesday and is 10-23.
The New York Liberty, Connecticut, Minnesota, Las Vegas and Seattle had already qualified for the postseason.
Clark has had an impressive rookie season.
In 33 games, she is averaging 18.7 points per game with 8.4 assists and 5.6 rebounds per contest.
Clark, who led the Iowa Hawkeyes to two NCAA championship games during his illustrious career, became the all-time leading scorer in Division I basketball history earlier this year.
The impressive feat recently was the reason to the end of a friendship between two WNBA legends, Nancy Lieberman and Sheryl Swoopes.