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

On Sunday, Clark set the points record of her first WNBA season, previously held by Augustus, and called it a full-circle moment.

“I took a picture with her on my dad’s little phone – it was probably something like a BlackBerry back then,” Clark said after Indiana’s 110-109 win over Dallas. “I remember it vividly. I was always a fan of her game and her shooting.”

Clark now has 761 points in 39 games, although it should be noted that 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 still 34 games long.

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

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

The only team Indiana hasn’t beaten this season is the two-time defending champion Las Vegas Aces. The Fever lost twice to the Aces last week in Indianapolis, but they returned to winning ways on Sunday in a game where both teams’ offenses dominated.

Dallas, 9-30 and already out of the playoff race, sank 56.8% of its field goals and was led by Arike Ogunbowale and Satou Sabally with 27 points each.

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

“We’ve done a great job of kind of building our games off of each other,” Mitchell said. “She’s young and likes to play fast, and I appreciate that. I think our pace can set us up for a lot of different things.”

Like Clark, Augustus 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. Today, she is an assistant coach 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. However, the Lynx struggled to a 10-24 record. They missed the playoffs in Augustus’ first five seasons, but made the WNBA Finals in six of his next seven years in Minnesota.

Clark is averaging a league-best 19.5 points, 8.4 assists and 5.7 rebounds, and on Friday she set the WNBA record for most assists in a season (beating the mark of 316 assists set last year by Connecticut’s Alyssa Thomas in 40 games).

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

Sunday was Clark’s fourth game with at least 30 points and 5 assists, tying him with Ogunbowale (2019) for the most points in his rookie season. It was also the ninth game this season in which both Clark and Mitchell scored at least 20 points. The Fever are 7-2 in those games.

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

ESPN Research contributed to this report.