Caitlin Clark Hypes Fever’s Lexie Hull for Major WNBA Award originally appeared on Athlon Sports.

Over the past season, the Fever have made it clear that they intend to vault from an also-ran with the No. 1 overall pick in the WNBA in back-to-back years to a franchise that is pointed directly at a league championship. Certainly, adding a star like Caitlin Clark to the mix goes a long way toward that goal. 

But having the right role players, too, has been a key in how this team has been reconstructed. And one of those role players formed a tight bond with Clark almost immediately in Indiana last year: Lexie Hull.

On Thursday, ahead of Indiana’s showdown in San Francisco against the expansion Valkyries, Clark was asked about Hull, who was a standout at nearby Stanford before going to the Fever with the No. 6 overall pick in 2022.  

Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark (22) and Indiana Fever guard Lexie Hull (10)© Grace Smith/IndyStar / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images

“The game is different when Lexie is on the floor,” Clark said. “Her energy, her tenacitythe way she affects the game–whether she’s scoring or she’s not, she’s our best defensive player, I think she is one of the best defensive players in the league. She’s active, she’s aggressive and also she shoots the ball really well. She’s made a lot of 3s for us, she’s shooting at close to 60% which is really unheard of in all of basketball, you just don’t see that. 

“So, I am just really proud of her, she always just puts her head down and keeps working. In my eyes, she is probably the top player in this league for Most Improved. I think she has improved in almost every statistical category. I am really happy for her and lucky to have a teammate like her, honestly.”

Hull has improved, no doubt. She is playing more–30.3 minutes per game–and is averaging career highs with 9.6 points, 4.2 rebounds and 1.2 steals. Hull is shooting 48.8% from the field and, incredibly, 56.7% from the 3-point line. 

Hull has a whopping plus-34.7-point on/off rating, too, according to Basketball-Reference.com, as the team is 18.3 points better offensively when she is playing and the opponent is 16.4 points worse. That leads the Fever, by far. (Clark, at plus-15.0, is No. 2 among the regulars.)  

This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports on Jun 20, 2025, where it first appeared.

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