Caitlin Clark Sets Bizarre Record During Jimmy Fallon Challenge

Caitlin Clark landed 12 cheese balls in Jimmy Fallon’s mouth in 24 seconds on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” on Friday.The Aces won it 94-83 on Oct. 1. Clark scored 18 on 6-of-18 shooting, went 3-of-12 from

Fallon set the rules. The two had to stand at least six feet apart, a distance Fallon paced off in the Nike Caitlin 1s the Indiana Fever guard had given him earlier in the segment. Clark could throw only one cheese ball at a time, and throwing more than one meant immediate disqualification.

“I didn’t know the rules were that hard,” Clark said.

Fallon called for 24 seconds on the shot clock, the same length the WNBA uses. When time ran out, he announced the total of 12 and called it a record.

Earlier in the interview, Clark described herself as always competitive growing up, at anything.

“Any board game growing up, I did not like to lose,” Clark explained. “Candyland was probably my favorite game growing up. Now Catan is probably my favorite game right now.”

“My attention span’s not great, so I didn’t think I would like it at first,” Clark continued. “But once you figure it out and you start strategizing, and part of it is luck. And then I get mad that I can’t win, so then I have to keep playing.”

Clark once cracked her younger brother’s head open in a game of Nerf hoop. She said he would have a gigantic scar on the back of his head if he still wore a buzz cut.

“I was trying to win,” Clark said. “What am I supposed to be doing?”

The hoop hung in the basement, in a corner where two walls meet.

“She was mad. I was in trouble,” Clark said of her mom. “I grew up in the Midwest, so there’s snow days. I’m pretty sure it was a snow day. I was at home, and me and my little brother were playing on this Nerf hoop in the basement. It’s where two walls meet, and I took [him] with two hands and I just chucked [him] into the wall.”

“[His] head [hit] just right, and he didn’t really react,” Clark continued. “And then he put his head back, or his hand back, and it was just like a cup of blood.”

Owning a restaurant was No. 5 on a “Future Dreams” list Clark made in the third grade, and Fallon read it on the show.

“I did want to own a restaurant,” Clark said. “I still do, but when I was a kid, I had this weird obsession with ribs. I don’t know why. I think because my mom never wanted to make them. My brothers didn’t like ribs, so I always asked for ribs on my birthday.”

“So I wanted this place to be called the Rib Crib, barbecue food, which is strange, I know,” Clark continued. “I had the land picked out. It’s since, people have built on the land.”

Fallon said he had always wanted to open a restaurant called Booths, because his mom asked for a booth at every restaurant they went to. He offered Clark a Rib Crib booth in it.

Clark played 40 games in 2026 and averaged 22.3 points, 4.0 rebounds, and 8.3 assists. She finished third in the league in scoring.

Her 891 points and 333 assists made her the first player in WNBA history with 800 points and 300 assists in one season, according to the Fever.

On July 17 against Seattle, she scored 45 points and handed out 10 assists. No WNBA player had put up 40 points and 10 assists in a game before.

Fans voted Clark in as an All-Star starter for the third straight season. She had 17 points and 5 assists in Team Spoon’s win in the All-Star Game.

Kelsey Mitchell led Indiana at 24.7 points a game and set the WNBA single-season record for total points.

The Fever finished 28-16, a record that included a 90-88 loss at Chase Center on May 28 to Golden State, which went on to win the title.

Las Vegas knocked Indiana out of the first round in three games. The Aces took the opener 102-85 at home on Sept. 27.

Clark fouled out of Game 2 two nights later at Gainbridge Fieldhouse, but not before putting up 27 points, 7 rebounds, and 15 assists on 9-of-18 shooting. The Fever won 99-89 to force a third game.

The Aces won it 94-83 on Oct. 1. Clark scored 18 on 6-of-18 shooting, went 3-of-12 from beyond the arc, and blocked 4 shots.Caitlin Clark landed 12 cheese balls in Jimmy Fallon’s mouth in 24 seconds on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” on Friday.

Across the three games she averaged 20.0 points, 4.0 rebounds, and 9.7 assists.