After a historic NCAA tournament, women’s college basketball’s best and brightest took their next step Monday night in the WNBA Draft in New York.
Caitlin Clark started the night going No. 1 overall to the Indiana Fever after helping Iowa to the national championship game in back-to-back seasons. Stanford’s Cameron Brink was next, going to the Los Angeles Sparks.
Follow along with Yahoo Sports’ WNBA crew all night long.
You can watch the 2024 WNBA Draft on ESPN.
WNBA Draft order
First round
1. Indiana Fever: Caitlin Clark, PG, Iowa
2. Los Angeles Sparks: Cameron Brink, PF, Stanford
3. Chicago Sky: Kamilla Cardosa, C, South Carolina
4. Los Angeles Sparks: Rickea Jackson, SF, Tennessee
5. Dallas Wings: Jacy Sheldon, SG, Ohio State
6. Washington Mystics: Aaliyah Edwards, UConn
7. Chicago Sky
8. Minnesota Lynx
9. Dallas Wings
10. Connecticut Sun
11. New York Liberty
12. Atlanta Dream
Second round
13. Chicago Sky
14. Seattle Storm
15. Indiana Fever
16. Las Vegas Aces
17. New York Liberty
18. Las Vegas Aces
19. Connecticut Sun
20. Atlanta Dream
21. Washington Mystics
22. Connecticut Sun
23. New York Liberty
24. Las Vegas Aces
Third round
25. Phoenix Mercury
26. Seattle Storm
27. Indiana Fever
28. Los Angeles Sparks
29. Phoenix Mercury
30. Washington Mystics
31. Minnesota Lynx
32. Atlanta Dream
33. Dallas Wings
34. Connecticut Sun
35. New York Liberty
36. Las Vegas Aces
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Teresa Weatherspoon has a frontcourt of the future in Chicago after the franchise drafted Kamilla Cardoso at No. 3 and Angel Reese in No. 7.
“Nobody’s going to get no rebounds on us,” Cardoso said minutes after Reese went off the board.
She also takes a maybe inadvertent dig at the local New York media saying she’s never been to Chicago, but heard it has some of the best pizza.
Angel Reese: “I am excited to play with Kamilla [Cardoso]. I have been playing against her since high school.”
Rickea Jackson having two outfits tonight — one for the Orange Carpet and one for her selection — is such a baller move.
Cameron Brink said she facetimed Steph Curry, her godbrother, about five minutes before the WNBA Draft show started. She also called Seth Curry. “He hung up on me immediately, because that’s Seth, but he called me right back.”
Fever general manager Lin Dunn told me last summer before the team won the Clark lottery that she would be disappointed if they didn’t make the playoffs in 2024.
“That’s definitely our goal is to get back to championship habits,” Clark said.
Indiana last made the postseason in 2016 with Hall of Famer Tamika Catchings. Clark said she vividly remembers Catchings on the broadcast during her freshman year games at Iowa.
“I was tweaking out,” Clark said. “I couldn’t believe she was calling one of my games.”
at the chicago sky draft party where season ticket holders, media, and members of the organization are gathered this evening for the WNBA draft. pic.twitter.com/luDK0tzo7J
Caitlin Clark is speaking with the media after going No. 1. She said she thinks her passing ability will be what translates to the WNBA and she’s heading to an organization with one of the best post players “in the entire world.” “My point guard eyes just light up at that.”
Pretty surreal that the #WNBADraft is easily the second most popular draft in the sporting world this calendar year. #WNBA
Happy draft night from the Brooklyn Academy of Music. So far it’s gone to plan with Caitlin Clark heading to Indiana (to much applause in the event space) and Cameron Brink going to the Los Angeles Sparks. It’s a fitting situation for both in terms of talent as well as geography.
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