During the Indiana Fever’s victory over the Connecticut Sun, tempers flared multiple times, with Caitlin Clark at the center of the chaos. Clark and Sun guard Jacy Sheldon exchanged verbal jabs early in the game, but tensions escalated in the third quarter when Sheldon poked Clark in the eye, provoking a skirmish that ended with Sun guard Marina Mabrey shoving Clark to the ground. The incident led to technical fouls for Clark, Mabrey, and Sun veteran Tina Charles, with Sheldon’s common foul upgraded to a flagrant.
Additional confrontations occurred during the game, notably when Fever guard Sophie Cunningham delivered a hard foul on Sheldon, who reacted angrily. Officials eventually ejected Cunningham, Sheldon, and Lindsay Allen from the game for their misconduct. White, the Fever’s head coach, was notably upset with the officials’ handling of the incidents. She criticized the WNBA officiating crew for not addressing the escalating tensions early in the game, emphasizing their failure to control the situation.