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Caitlin Clark's teammates had to hold her back from arguing with a referee in the second-to-last regular season game for the Indiana Fever, hoping to keep the star from receiving a costly technical foul. They may not need to try so hard once the playoffs start. Clark amassed six total technical fouls over the course of the WNBA regular season and a seventh would have given her an automatic one-game suspension.
But reporter Chloe Peterson of the Indianapolis Star noted that technical fouls reset in the playoffs, putting Clark back at zero as the postseason is set to begin. Before the Fever's final game of the season, Clark shared frustration that she was pushed to the brink of suspension with what she thought were some questionable technical fouls. "It stinks because I feel like half of my technicals this year, I got one for that inadvertent contact to the face in the Minnesota game and then two for hitting the stanchion of the basket," Clark said, via Fox Sports .
"One was a complete accident, and then the other two were just a little frustration with myself. So, I think I could have done a better job keeping my emotions in check, but at the same time, like, ..
. really?" © Grace Smith/IndyStar / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images Clark need not worry so much in the postseason, no longer facing the prospect of an automatic suspension if she is whistled for a technical foul. The Fever finished the season 20-20, reaching .
500 and making the playoffs for the first time since the 2016 season. They enter the playoffs as the No. 6 seed, taking on No.
3 Connecticut Sun in the first round. Related: Caitlin Clark at Risk of WNBA Suspension for Recent Conduct.
