Now that the 2020-21 women s college basketball season is over, we finally know which players will be available for the April 15 WNBA draft. With the NCAA s blanket eligibility waiver due to the coronavirus pandemic, seniors are able to return for another season, and some players who earlier were on our draft board opted to do that. Among the prominent draft-eligible juniors, one of our projected first-round picks UConn s Evina Westbrook is also remaining in college for 2021-22.
WNBA coaches and general managers use the NCAA tournament for evaluation, and sometimes it can boost a player s stock. Arizona s Aari McDonald, for instance, started at No. 2 in our first mock draft last December, then dropped to No. 8. Her March Madness success has her back in the top five.
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Nearly a year ago, as the country sat still with shelter-in-place protocols in the rising phases of the coronavirus pandemic, Erica McCall found herself questioning whether she belonged in the WNBA.
McCall, who had a stellar four-year college basketball career at Stanford under the winningest head coach in women’s college basketball in Tara Ann VanDerveer, had just been waived by the Indiana Fever after three seasons, the same team that drafted her in the second round of the 2017 WNBA draft.
The former two-time, All-Pac-12 performer who compares herself to the Warriors’ Draymond Green because of his energy and impact did not handle the news well.
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The Washington Mystics announced the re-signing of Natasha Cloud on Wednesday and Khristina Williams of Girls Talk Sports TV reported that the contract is for three years and that Cloud will be paid $190,000 in 2021.
In addition to that news, Mystics center LaToya Sanders announced her retirement on Monday, the same day the team signed Theresa Plaisance to a training camp contract.
“(I missed) this family,” Cloud said in a Zoom press conference on Wednesday. “This is a family here. This is not just an organization.
“To not be able to go into work every day and see everyone’s faces, all that little stuff that can sometimes get taken for granted. I missed that dramatically last summer, especially with how heavy that summer was. To not have that outlet of the court, to not have that outlet of our team, it was really hard to kind of decipher through my feelings.