Kelsey Mitchell ended her season on Thursday night with her lowest-scoring performance of the entire season. It was not a desirable outing for her or the Indiana Fever. However, one night definitely could not take anything away from the scoring legacy she built throughout the season. And, of course, the Indiana Fever made sure to celebrate that legacy again despite losing their final game of the 2026 regular season.

“MVP Kelz is rewriting the record books 📖. The Fever Kelsey Mitchell finishes the regular season as the WNBA’s leading scorer with 1,086 points, the most in a single-season in league history 😮‍💨,” the post read.

After dominating the Minnesota Lynx in their last game, the Fever lost on Thursday night in rather disappointing fashion, falling 86-66. Kelsey Mitchell managed just 10 points, two rebounds, and one assist in 22 minutes. With those 10 points, however, her season total rose to 1,086 points.

Kelsey Mitchell had actually already broken the previous record on September 18 during a 103-85 road victory against the Toronto Tempo. She officially broke the record with 7:57 remaining in the third quarter by hitting a 24-foot three-point shot assisted by teammate Caitlin Clark. She finished that particular game with 33 points, bringing her total to 1,034 points and eclipsing A’ja Wilson, who set the previous record at 1,021 points in 2024.

However, that was not the only A’ja Wilson record that Kelsey Mitchell broke and extended this season. She also set the record for the most consecutive games with 20 or more points, scoring at least 20 points in a WNBA-record 27 consecutive games. Unfortunately, her 10 points in this game brought that remarkable streak to an end.

Unfortunately, Mitchell wasn’t the only one who had a season-low performance in their second game against the league leaders and the NO. 1 playoff seed. Caitlin Clark was especially quiet, managing just two points in the 18 minutes that she played, marking the lowest-scoring game of her WNBA career. Clark also shot just 1-of-12 from the field and went 0-of-7 from three-point range.

Following the loss, Clark didn’t hide her disappointment at the lackluster performance from everyone involved. Yet, the 24-year-old guard said she is ready to leave the loss behind her and focus on the bigger picture: the 2026 WNBA playoffs.

“I feel like at this point everybody’s record is zero and zero. We’re going into the playoffs. If we sit and sulk about what happened tonight, yeah, it sucks. It is what it is. We kind of came out and got punched in the mouth. We didn’t make shots. Obviously, we had two players go down. This was a pretty crappy night overall.”

Clark and the Fever were indeed uncharacteristic during this game, as they started by missing 11 of their first 12 shots. They fell behind 25-4 late in the first quarter and trailed by a staggering 30 points, 62-32, at halftime. They also shot a season-low 34.2% from the field and an abysmal 15.6%, going 5-of-32 from beyond the arc. To make matters worse, backup guard Tyasha Harris also suffered a left ankle injury in the third quarter and had to be carried off the floor to the locker room.

It is definitely one game that they will be looking to forget and not replicate at all in the playoffs, where they will now face the A’ja Wilson-led Las Vegas Aces in the first round in a best-of-three series beginning Sunday.

Heading into this playoff encounter, Caitlin Clark is averaging 22.3 points, 8.3 assists, and 4.0 rebounds per game, ranking among the league leaders in both assists and scoring. Meanwhile, Kelsey Mitchell is averaging 24.7 points and 2.8 assists per game, ranking second in the league in scoring. These are the versions of Clark and Mitchell that the Fever will be hoping to replicate in the playoffs.