No player in WNBA history has gotten more buckets than Tina Charles.
The UConn women’s basketball legend passed another all-time Huskies great, Diana Taurasi, when she converted a layup in the first quarter of the Connecticut Sun‘s loss at the Chicago Sky on Wednesday night. It was Charles’ 3,342nd made field goal in the WNBA.
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Charles went on to make five more, finishing the game with 19 points on 8-of-13 shooting, and 3,347 career field goals.
Despite having more field goals made across her 15 seasons in the league, Charles remains over 2,000 points behind Taurasi on the all-time scoring list. Diana scored 10,646 points in her 20-year career.
The difference comes down to the fact that Taurasi is also the all-time WNBA leader in three-pointers, having drained 1,447 over her career, while Charles did most of her damage in the paint. She has just 197 made threes all-time, and didn’t start taking them regularly until her sixth season in the league in 2016.
Despite passing her fellow Huskies great in field goals made, Charles faces an uphill battle if she wants to surpass Taurasi to become the WNBA’s all-time leading scorer. She’s averaging 16.4 points per game this season, impressive at age 36, but she’d need to keep up that pace for more than three seasons to chase down Taurasi.
Charles stepped away from the WNBA in 2023 before returning the following season. She signed a one-year contract with the Sun last offseason.
