INDIANAPOLIS – “I was a freshman, I think.”
“Yeah, I was in eighth grade.”
That’s what Aliyah Boston and Caitlin Clark, respectively, said softly to each other on opposite ends of the Indiana Fever’s postgame podium while Kelsey Mitchell answered a question about the team’s first four-game home winning streak since 2015.
But with an 88-81 defeat of the Washington Mystics, the Fever got their fourth straight win in Gainbridge Fieldhouse, which this team hadn’t done in nine years. Mitchell — who sat sandwiched between the franchise’s 2022 and 2023 first-overall picks — is the longest-tenured Fever player, and even she was still playing and attending Ohio State the last time the Fever did this.