Kayla McBride Sinks WNBA Single-Game Record 10 3-Pointers
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Kayla McBride #21 of the Minnesota Lynx shoots over Paige Bueckers #5 of the Dallas Wings
Kayla McBride is the new WNBA single-game 3-point queen.
The 13-year veteran became the first player in league history to hit double-digit 3-pointers in one game, knocking down 10 triples in the Minnesota Lynx’s 103-90 win over the Dallas Wings on Sunday. The 10 3-pointers were part of a career-high 43-point night for McBride, who also broke the Lynx single-game scoring record for a regulation game.
McBride was unconscious for most of the day, making her first four field-goal attempts and 12 of her first 13, including six 3s. She went into a bit of a heat check after that stretch, missing three jumpers in a row to close the third quarter. But she rediscovered her form in the final frame, nailing four more triples to set the record and clinch the victory on the back-to-back for Minnesota.
“I love this game, and it’s been so good to me,” McBride said on the broadcast postgame. “When I have opportunities like that, I want to give it back.”
Her 10th 3-pointer came on an assist from Napheesa Collier, McBride’s longest-tenured teammate in Minnesota.
The Lynx ran one more set for her to extend the record before giving her a curtain call with just more than a minute remaining. The Target Center crowd chanted “Kayla” after McBride went to the bench, and she was overcome with emotion in the corner of the court after time expired.
“It’s crazy, I’ve been in this league for 13 years, and choosing to come back here in the offseason, I didn’t know — we didn’t know what it was going to look like,” McBride said on the broadcast. “Moments like this, times like this, you realize you made the right decision.”
McBride is enjoying the most prolific shooting season of her career, taking and making more 3s than ever and averaging more points (18.4) than in any of her previous 12 seasons. Her 3-point percentage of 42.4 is the second-highest of her career, behind her final season in Las Vegas in 2019.
She ranks first in the WNBA in total made 3s and third in 3s per game behind Rhyne Howard and Marina Mabrey, both of whom have also drained nine 3-pointers in a game (Mabrey has done so twice in 2026). Seven players, on nine occasions, had hit nine 3s in a game before McBride’s record.
Sabreena Merchant is a women’s basketball Staff Writer for The Athletic. She previously covered the WNBA and NBA for SB Nation. Sabreena is an alum of Duke University, where she wrote for the independent student newspaper, The Chronicle. She is based in Los Angeles.
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