Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark remembers Seimone Augustus being the first WNBA player she met when she went to a Minnesota Lynx game as a kid.

On Sunday, Clark broke the WNBA record for all-time scoring in a rookie season, previously held by Augustus, bringing the game full circle.

“I took my picture with her on my dad’s little phone — it looked like a BlackBerry back in the day,” Clark said after Indiana’s 110-109 win over Dallas. “I remember it vividly. I was always a fan of her game and the way she could shoot the ball.”

Clark now has 761 points in 39 games, so there’s a caveat: Augustus, who will be inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in October, set her record of 744 points in 2006, when the WNBA season was 34 games long.

Regardless, it was a big afternoon for Clark, who had a career-high 35 points, and the Fever, who secured the No. 6 seed in the playoffs. Indiana is 20-19 and will end the regular season on Thursday at Washington.

“Everyone is absolutely excited about the playoffs,” Clark said of the Fever’s upcoming postseason trip, their first since 2016. “We’re not just excited to be there. We really feel like we can compete with any team.”

The only team Indiana has yet to beat this season is the two-time reigning champion Las Vegas Aces. The Fever lost twice to the Aces last week in Indianapolis. But they got back on track Sunday in a game that featured both teams’ offenses.

Dallas, 9-30 and already eliminated from the playoffs, had a shooting percentage of 56.8% and was led by Arike Ogunbowale and Satou Sabally with 27 points.

Clark and teammate Kelsey Mitchell (30 points) each had six 3-pointers against the Wings. It was the third time in WNBA history that two teammates made at least six 3s in the same game, and the first time since 2010.

“We’ve done a great job of connecting our games,” Mitchell said. “She’s young and she likes to play fast, and I appreciate that. I think our pace can prepare us for a lot of different things.”

Augustus, like Clark, was a No. 1 draft pick. The former LSU star played 14 of her 15 seasons with the Lynx and finished her playing career with the Los Angeles Sparks.

Augustus won four titles with Minnesota and three Olympic gold medals with Team USA. She is now an assistant at her alma mater.

Augustus averaged 21.9 points — still the rookie record for scoring average — 1.5 assists and 3.8 rebounds in 2006. But the Lynx struggled to a 10-24 record. They missed the playoffs in Augustus’ first five seasons, then reached the WNBA Finals in six of her next seven years in Minnesota.

Clark is averaging 19.5 points, a league-high 8.4 assists and 5.7 rebounds. She set the WNBA single-season assist record on Friday (breaking the record of 316 set last year by Connecticut’s Alyssa Thomas in 40 games).

Clark, who had eight assists on Sunday, now has 329 this season.

Sunday marked Clark’s fourth game with at least 30 points and five assists, tying him with Ogunbowale (2019) for most in a rookie season. It was also the ninth game this season in which both Clark and Mitchell had at least 20 points. The Fever are 7-2 in those games.

“Kelsey makes my life easier there,” Clark said. “It’s hard to choose when we’re both on. We just read and understand each other better than where we were at the beginning of the season.”

ESPN Research contributed to this report.