Caitlin Clark, dealing with a leg injury that kept her out of Saturday’s preseason opener against the Washington Mystics, played almost 19 minutes. She finished making 6 of 10 shots, and added six rebounds and five assists.

WNBA fans appreciated Clark helping her teammates throughout the game despite not playing, enough so that they granted her a new nickname, calling her "Coach Caitlin Clark." "I never want to see Coach Cait again, but she’s very cute," one fan said.

The Fever take the court as title contenders for the first time, but there was a question of Caitlin Clark's status after she was on the injury report.