If winning 10 consecutive games is no big deal, why have so few pro basketball teams done it?

The Indiana Pacers never have in the NBA.

The three-time champion Detroit Shock never have in the WNBA.

Until Wednesday, only one team in the WNBA’s Eastern Conference had done so. Connecticut won 12 in a row when Katie Douglas was there in 2006.

Now Douglas is one of multiple weapons on the Indiana Fever, who beat the Chicago Sky 84-74 Wednesday afternoon at Conseco Fieldhouse, extending their franchise-record winning streak and running their league-leading mark to 10-2.

The announced Kids Day crowd of 10,051 was the largest for the Fever since the 2008 opener.

The Fever have a coach, Lin Dunn, who has been at this for 40 years. They have a lineup whose youngest player, Ebony Hoffman, is 26. They have a point guard, Tully Bevilaqua, who will be 37 on Sunday. They have the same starting five this year that they had last year.

In other words, these women know what they’re doing.

“We have veteran leadership,” Dunn said. “They know what happened last week doesn’t matter. Everybody’s good. On a given night, anybody can beat anybody.”

The Fever were as attentive to detail as they were in pounding this same Sky team 83-54 Friday. Moreover, on a given night — or day, in this case — any of the Fever five can beat anybody.

On Wednesday, it was Tammy Sutton-Brown with 22 points and Ebony Hoffmann with 18. The Fever found them inside so often that they beat the Sky 50-24 in points in the paint.

Without All-Star center Sylvia Fowles, who is sidelined by a sore shoulder, Chicago didn’t have the big shoulders to thwart the Fever. Afterward, the 6-4 Sutton-Brown iced her knees and said she felt her age, 31, but she ran like a deer. And we don’t mean the John Deere tractor.

“She’s working awfully hard,” Dunn said. “She’s running the floor as well as she’s run it in years. She is demanding the basketball.”

Sutton-Brown shot 10-of-11, a franchise record (.909) for a player with 10 or more field goals and the No. 4 such mark in league history.

Tenth Fever season. Ten straight victories. Ten baskets.

The Fever aren’t a perfect 10, though.

“Our coach keeps us humble,” Sutton-Brown said. “Trust me, we’ll break down film, and she’ll find the mistakes that we did.”

The Fever thrive in forcing others into mistakes. The Sky made 21 turnovers, six on Tamika Catchings’ steals. Catchings was a stat-stuffer: 16 points, eight rebounds, eight assists.

Dunn said the Fever don’t need Catchings to score 25, as they once did. Not with Sutton-Brown and Hoffman and Katie Douglas (13 points, career-high eight assists) and Bevilaqua.

“With everyone playing as well as they are, it does allow me to float and do different things on offense,” Catchings said. “It’s not like they’re keying in on me anymore.”

The Fever, who rank 11th in the league in field goal percentage, shot 51 percent with 26 assists (one off the franchise record) on 36 field goals.

Candice Dupree scored 17 points for the Sky (7-8). Shyra Ely, a Ben Davis High School graduate, scored nine points in 11 minutes.

Douglas is the first player in league history with as many as 3,200 points, 1,000 rebounds, 400 steals and 400 3-pointers in a career. She became the seventh to make 400 3s. . . . Hoffman is the fourth to score 1,000 points for the Fever. The others are Catchings,Natalie WilliamsandTan White. . . . The longest winning streak in league history is 18 by the Los Angeles Sparks in 2001.

[chart]|Chicago|Min|FG-A|FT-A|OR-T|A|F|T|Pts||Dupree|37:54|7-11|2-2|3-10|2|0|3|17||Wyckoff|22:10|1-2|0-0|0-1|1|1|1|3||Nan|31:38|5-9|0-0|1-2|3|1|4|10||Canty|20:19|1-3|4-4|0-1|3|3|2|6||Perkins|25:16|2-10|1-2|1-5|0|3|5|5||Thorn|21:30|4-7|0-0|1-3|2|0|0|11||Ely|10:54|3-4|3-3|0-0|0|1|0|9||Toliver|19:28|5-8|1-1|0-1|3|1|5|13||Price|10:50|0-1|0-0|0-1|0|3|1|0||Totals||28-55|11-12|6-24|14|13|21|74|[end chart]

3-point goals:7-13 (Thorn 3-5, Toliver 2-5, Dupree 1-1, Wyckoff 1-1, Perkins 0-1).Steals:.Blocked shots:6 (Dupree 2, Wyckoff 2, Perkins, Ely).Team rebounds:4.

[chart]|FEVER|Min|FG-A|FT-A|OR-T|A|F|T|Pts||Catchings|33:00|6-13|2-2|4-8|8|2|5|16||Hoffman|31:15|8-14|2-2|3-7|1|2|3|18||Sttn-Brwn|33:12|10-11|2-3|0-4|2|4|2|22||Douglas|33:54|6-14|0-0|1-4|8|0|2|13||Bevilaqua|30:29|2-6|0-0|1-4|4|4|3|5||January|16:34|3-6|0-0|0-1|2|1|0|8||Dixon|12:24|1-4|0-0|1-1|1|1|0|2||Moore|8:21|0-3|0-0|1-2|0|0|0|0||Davenport|0:51|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0||Totals||36-71|6-7|11-31|26|14|15|84|[end chart]

3-point goals: 6-18 (Catchings 2-4, January 2-5, Douglas 1-5, Bevilaqua 1-3, Hoffman 0-1).Steals:12 (Catchings 6, Bevilaqua 3, Douglas, January, Dixon).Blocked shots:5(Sutton-Brown 2, Bevilaqua 2, Douglas).Team rebounds:5.

[chart]|||||||||Chicago|19|14|23|18|—|74||FEVER|20|23|23|18|—|84|[end chart]

Officials:Roberts, Courteau, Dawkins.Attendance:10,051.