Ogunbowale and Shepard lead Wings
over Fever 91-85 on off shooting night for Bueckers and Clark
[August 21, 2026]
By SCHUYLER DIXON
DALLAS (AP) — Arike Ogunbowale scored a season-high 32 points,
Jessica Shepard added a career-best 26 and the Dallas Wings beat
Indiana 91-85 on Thursday night, ending the Fever's five-game
winning streak.
Caitlin Clark had 10 points and nine assists and Paige Bueckers
finished with 13 points and eight assists on a rough shooting night
for both former No. 1 overall picks six days after each scored 29 in
the Fever's 98-87 victory.
They combined to go 9 of 31 from the field two weeks before their
expected debut — alongside Indiana forward Aliyah Boston — on the
senior U.S. women's national team at the FIBA World Cup.
Kelsey Mitchell tied her season high with 37 points, getting 21
before halftime to set the WNBA record with her 21st consecutive
game with at least 20 points. Mitchell, who topped the previous mark
of Las Vegas Aces star A'ja Wilson, was 4 of 7 from 3-point range
and made all 15 of her free throws.
Awak Kuier had 11 points, eight rebounds and a career-high seven
blocks as the Wings won for just the fourth time in 12 games since a
six-game winning streak that was their longest since moving to Texas
10 years ago.
The needed boost for Dallas came at the sold out home of the Dallas
Mavericks. While there were plenty of Fever fans wearing Clark's
familiar No. 22, the home team had the backing of Mavericks minority
owner Mark Cuban in a courtside seat and 2025 No. 1 overall pick and
reigning NBA Rookie of the Year Cooper Flagg in a suite.
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Dallas Wings forward Jessica Shepard drives with the ball during the
first half of a WNBA basketball game against the Indiana Fever in
Dallas, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2026. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
Kuier had five blocks before halftime to tie her
previous best from 2021, when the native of Egpyt was a 20-year-old
rookie.
The Wings had matched their biggest lead of five when they started
the fourth quarter with Bueckers on the bench.
Shepard, who had eight rebounds and four assists,
and Alysha Clark scored before Clark hit a 3-pointer. After Odyssey
Sims hit two free throws and Bueckers returned, Bueckers hit a
jumper for Dallas' first 10-point lead at 74-64.
The Fever missed their first chance to set a franchise record for
victories, holding at last year's total of 24.
It was the first game for the Wings since they announced that this
year's No. 1 overall pick, Azzi Fudd, will miss the rest of the
season to undergo arthroscopic surgery on her ailing right knee.
Mitchell hit the 20-point mark with a layup off an inbound play that
started with just 5.4 seconds left in the first half after Bueckers
and Clark got tangled up with Bueckers trying to foul her new USA
Basketball teammate on purpose.
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