Alyssa Thomas Leads the WNBA With 24 Regular-Season Triple-Doubles

Alyssa Thomas holds the WNBA career record with 24 regular-season triple-doubles as of October 26, 2026. Jessica Shepard is second with seven. Thomas also leads the postseason with six, giving her 30 combined regular-season and playoff triple-doubles. Those are separate records—not interchangeable totals. (ESPN, StatMuse playoff leaderboard)

A triple-double means reaching at least 10 in three of five statistical categories in one game: points, rebounds, assists, steals and blocks. It usually involves points, rebounds and assists, but that combination is not required.

All-time regular-season leaders

The table includes every player with at least two regular-season triple-doubles. Playoff performances are excluded, and equal totals share a rank.

Totals as of October 26, 2026: StatMuse career leaderboard, corroborated by ESPN’s record summary.

Another 15 players share ninth place with one each: Julie Allemand, Tina Charles, Layshia Clarendon, Skylar Diggins, Margo Dydek, Natasha Howard, Moriah Jefferson, Temeka Johnson, Lisa Leslie, Deanna Nolan, Angel Reese, Satou Sabally, Sug Sutton, Sheryl Swoopes and Courtney Vandersloot.

Thomas’s lead is 17 over Shepard. Her record-setting eight regular-season triple-doubles in 2025 alone exceed any other player’s career total. Shepard moved firmly into second place by recording six in 2026 after entering the season with one. (Thomas’s WNBA biography, Dallas Wings’ 2026 season summary)

Clark reached four with 26 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists against Portland on July 31, 2026, tying Ionescu for third. She had previously become the first WNBA rookie to record a triple-double in 2024. (Indiana Fever game recap, ESPN)

Playoff and combined totals

As of October 26, 2026, only three players appear on the career playoff triple-double leaderboard:

• Alyssa Thomas: six, bringing her combined total to 30.
• Courtney Vandersloot: one, bringing her combined total to two.
• Sheryl Swoopes: one, bringing her combined total to two.

This explains why Swoopes and Vandersloot sometimes appear with two on an all-time list but only one on a regular-season leaderboard. They join Gray and Williams in a four-way tie at two when playoffs are included.

Swoopes recorded the league’s first triple-double on July 27, 1999: 14 points, 15 rebounds and 10 assists for Houston against Detroit. She also recorded its first playoff triple-double in 2005. (WNBA historical game list)

What the record tells you—and what it misses

A triple-double captures production across three categories, not overall efficiency. A 10-point, 10-rebound, 10-assist game qualifies; a 25-point, nine-rebound, nine-assist game does not. The threshold does not account for missed shots, turnovers or defensive work outside the counted categories.

Role and era also matter. A player needs both rebounding opportunities and responsibility creating teammates’ baskets to accumulate the usual points–rebounds–assists triple-double. In an analysis through the 2022 All-Star break, WNBA.com writer Brian Martin identified double-digit assists as the main historical bottleneck and linked rising opportunities to pace, shooting and assisted three-pointers. That is context for the modern surge, not a pace-adjusted career ranking. (WNBA.com analysis)

The same historical list shows why the definition matters: Dydek’s 2001 triple-double and Leslie’s 2004 performance used blocks instead of assists. Different roles can produce the same statistical label.

For a cross-league comparison, see our NBA career triple-double leaders, keeping regular-season and playoff totals separate there too.