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| Breanna Stewart top pick in WNBA, leading 1-2-3 UConn sweep |
Stewart went aboriginal to the Seattle Storm, Jefferson additional to San Antonio and Tuck third to Connecticut. It's the aboriginal time that the top three picks came from the aforementioned school.
"When you attending at our chief chic it speaks for itself traveling one, two, three," Stewart said. "Lots of comparisons amid accomplished UConn teams and this one, if we do things that accomplish history, that's adage it all."
Stewart was talking to the media if she heard that Tuck was drafted third by the Sun.
"I'm so happy," she said. "That fabricated accept me added adored than accepting No. 1 overall. To see her go through all that she's been through, to leave with us and again for us to go 1-2-3 that's account perfect."
No abstract in any above action has anytime had the top three picks appear from the aforementioned academy according to advice provided to the WNBA by the Elias Sports Bureau.
"We're sisters for sure," Jefferson said. "I heard her name and I stopped, started clapping. I got so emotional. To go through the adventure the way we accept and accomplish history on the academy akin and history here, it's unbelievable. I can't anticipate of annihilation accepting any better."
The WNBA has had two of the aboriginal three players appear from the aforementioned academy on three abstracted occasions. The abutting to the top three accepting from the aforementioned aggregation was in 2002 if UConn had players taken first, second, fourth and sixth.
The 6-foot-4 Stewart averaged 19.4 credibility and 8.7 rebounds to advance the Huskies to a fourth afterwards civic championship beforehand this month. She became the aboriginal amateur in NCAA history to acquire a lot of outstanding amateur of the Final Four all four years.
When her name was alleged by new WNBA President Lisa Borders, Stewart hugged UConn drillmaster Geno Auriemma, who was sitting at her table. She again gave a hug to Jefferson and Tuck with her added above UConn teammates applauding from the army at Mohegan Sun. It was the third beeline division that the abstract was captivated at the home of the Connecticut Sun. There was a loud army on duke to acclamation on the above Huskies and abstract picks.
It apparent the additional beeline division that the Storm had the top aces in the draft. Seattle took Jewell Loyd at No. 1 endure year. The aggregation aswell had back-to-back No. 1 selections in 2001 and 2002 if Seattle drafted Lauren Jackson and Sue Bird.
Rachel Banham went fourth to Connecticut. The Minnesota bouncer angry the NCAA almanac this division with 60 credibility in a game.
"I'm above aflame to be actuality in Connecticut," Banham said. "The fan abject actuality is incredible."
Michigan State's Aerial Powers went fifth to Dallas while George Washington's Jonquel Jones was best sixth by Los Angeles. Soon afterwards accepting drafted she was afterwards traded to Connecticut for Chelsea Gray and the Sun's No. 1 abstract aces next year. The teams aswell traded a few picks in the additional and third annular of Thursday's draft.
"Got to acclimate and accomplish changes," Jones said to amusement moments afterwards accepting dealt.
Rutgers' Kahleah Copper was drafted seventh by Washington. South Florida's Courtney Williams went eighth to Phoenix. South Carolina' Tiffany Mitchell was best ninth by Indiana.
Texas centermost Imani Boyette went 10th to Chicago and could be the aboriginal babe of a WNBA amateur to accomplish a roster. Her mom, Pamela McGee, was the No. 2 aces in the 1997 abstract and played for Sacramento and the Los Angeles Sparks. Yolanda Griffith's daughter, Alicia DeVaughn, abounding training camps in 2014 and 2015 but didn't accomplish the regular-season roster.
"It's a lot to apperceive that I can do the aforementioned affair my mom did," Boyette said. "Hopefully, in a bigger way. I'm adored to be here. I watched a lot of WNBA growing up. ... I'm aflame that it's my about-face to be the one accepting watched."
Atlanta took West Virginia's Bria Holmes with the 11th pick. She is the aboriginal built-in of Connecticut to be drafted. New York bankrupt out the aboriginal annular by drafting Florida State's Adut Bulgak.
The league's 20th ceremony division will tip off May 14. Training camps accessible April 24.
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