Per USA TODAY Sports, the WNBA is reviewing a technical foul assessed to Caitlin Clark in the Indiana Fever‘s June 22 victory over the Phoenix Mercury.
The WNBA provided the following statement to the IndyStar and USA TODAY Sports:
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“As per WNBA policy, after each game the league reviews all technical fouls. Teams have the ability to provide additional information to the league and request a called technical foul to be overturned. We are in the process of reviewing a request from the Indiana Fever submitted today to rescind Caitlin Clark’s technical foul assessed at 07:57 of the fourth period during Monday night’s game against the Phoenix Mercury.”
Indiana’s Caitlin Clark, Sophie Cunningham and Myisha Hines-Allen and Phoenix’s Dewanna Bonner and Alyssa Thomas all received technical fouls following an altercation in the fourth quarter.
“It’s ridiculous. I got a technical for clapping, so we should all just go on the calendar now and pick a game that I’m going to be suspended for if I’m going to get technicals for clapping…
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“If any technical should be taken away, it should be that one. … I don’t understand it at all,” Clark said after the game.
If the league does not rescind the technical foul, Clark will have five technical fouls on the season. If Clark reaches eight technical fouls, it’s an automatic one-game suspension.
Under WNBA rules, a player or coach is automatically suspended for one game upon receiving their eighth technical foul during the regular season. Every two additional technical fouls received during the regular season will result in an additional one-game suspension.
Clark and the Fever clash against the Mercury for the second consecutive game from Gainbridge Fieldhouse on Wednesday night, with tipoff set for 6:30 p.m. on USA Network.
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