MINNEAPOLIS — Caitlin Clark was ruled out of the WNBA Commissioner’s Cup final on Tuesday with a strained groin, her third straight absence for the Indiana Fever.

The Fever announced on their pregame injury report that Clark would sit against the Minnesota Lynx in the championship game of the league’s in-season tournament. The game does not count toward the regular-season standings.

Clark, the first overall pick in the 2024 draft and one of the two captains selected for the WNBA All-Star Game later this month, never missed a game in college at Iowa or with the Fever as a rookie. A strained quadriceps earlier this season kept her out for five games.

The Fever wound up still winning the game Tuesday night, 74-59, over the Lynx. Clark missed Indiana’s game last Friday at Dallas that would have pitted her against Wings rookie Paige Bueckers.

Elsewhere in sports:

– The University of Pennsylvania says it will update records set by transgender swimmer Lia Thomas. The college says it also will apologize to female athletes it says were “disadvantaged” by Thomas being on the women’s team. The moves were part of a resolution of a federal civil rights case that found the school violated the rights of female athletes. Thomas was the first openly transgender athlete to win a Division I title.