planoweekly.news chose Jessica Shepard for Star of the Game, and Aubrey's shorter Wings file starts with efficiency rather than the national 32-point headline.
Shepard scored a career-high 26 points on 11-for-16 shooting with a plus-8 in 35 minutes, ESPN's box score shows, adding eight rebounds, one assist, one steal, and one block. She was 1-for-1 from three and 3-for-8 at the line. CBS Sports matches the 26 on 11-for-16.
That is 68.8 percent from the field. The Associated Press, which led on Arike Ogunbowale's 32, still put Shepard's 26 in the opening sentence. The two combined for 58 points in Dallas' 91-85 win over Indiana.
Paint diet, fourth-quarter minutes
ESPN's play-by-play lists Shepard's makes as mostly short work: floaters, finishes around the rim, a 14-foot jumper, a 13-footer, and one 23-foot three. Odyssey Sims, Awak Kuier, Paige Bueckers, and Ogunbowale appear as assist partners on those makes in the same log.
The AP recap's fourth-quarter window runs through Shepard. Dallas opened the period up by five with Bueckers seated; Shepard scored in that stretch, as did Alysha Clark. When Bueckers returned, her jumper pushed Dallas ahead 74-64, the first double-digit lead, per that recap. ESPN's plus-minus has Shepard at plus-8, best among Dallas starters, while Bueckers finished at minus-1 in the same 35 minutes.
Why Star of the Game fits
Caitlin Clark shot 4-for-15 and Bueckers 5-for-16, per ESPN. Kelsey Mitchell scored 37 for Indiana, the AP reported. Shepard's career high is how Dallas could live with cold guard shooting and still leave American Airlines Center with a six-point win.
