On Sunday afternoon, Caitlin Clark made her WNBA Playoffs debut in Game 1 against the Connecticut Sun. The Fever ended the regular season with a 20-20 record and their first postseason appearance since 2016.

In the first quarter, Indiana coach Christie Sides received a technical foul after complaining to the referees about an out-of-bounds call on Lexie Hull.

Throughout the season, Clark has been the team’s leader in technical fouls, picking up six through 40 games. Like Sides’, many of Clark’s techs have come from reacting to a refs’ call.

At halftime, ESPN analysts Chiney Ogwumike and Andraya Carter discussed the technical and Ogwumike revealed that she wants to see Clark pick up one herself.

“Chiney wanted Caitlin to get a technical foul today – no, you didn’t really want her …” Carter said.

“I do,” Ogwumike responded. “I want her to play with emotions on her sleeve. That brings out the best, Caitlin.”

    Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark at Gainbridge Fieldhouse Grace Hollars/USA TODAY Network

Due to her many technical fouls in the regular season, the former Iowa Hawkeyes star was on suspension watch down the final stretch. In the WNBA, players receive a one-game suspension after picking up seven technicals. However, they reset once the playoffs start.

Ogwumike played for the Sun and the Los Angeles Sparks during her WNBA career. She was named the 2014 Rookie of the Year and a two-time WNBA All-Star. She was also a two-time first-team All-American during her college career with Stanford.

“I didn’t think they were going to give me a technical at any point tonight,” Clark said in a postgame presser. “I would have been really sad for people in Washington D.C., I didn’t want to do that. I tried my best. My teammates do a really good job in [preventing technicals], they think I’m funny, they think it’s funny.”

Clark, who finished with 35 points and eight assists in Sunday’s 110-109 win over the Wings, received her most recent technical last week for letting out her frustrations on a stanchion. The rookie guard walked herself into a few tense arguments with the WNBA refs on Sunday, and her teammates weren’t the only ones worried about her future playing status. Cameras caught one Fever fan appearing to tell Clark to “shut up, don’t get a tech” during the game.

Thankfully for Clark as well as for WNBA viewership numbers, players’ technicals are wiped clean for the postseason. Even if Clark were to receive her seventh technical foul in Thursday’s game against the Mystics, she wouldn’t be suspended for the first game of the playoffs.

The Fever (20-19) clinched the No. 6 seed and will end the regular season with a winning record for the first time since 2015. Indiana won’t know who their first-round playoff opponent is until Tuesday with several other postseason spots still undecided, though at the moment the Fever would take on the No. 3-seeded Connecticut Sun.