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The WNBA Draft is happening now, and as widely expected, the Connecticut Sun made UConn center Tina Charles the number one overall pick, just 48 hours after she led her team to an NCAA Championship.
Charles enters the WNBA as one of the top prospects to come into the league in years. She anchored arguably the best women's college team in recent memory, winning her last 78 games as a college player.
That Charles was taken with the first pick is no surprise. In February, Sun head coach Mike Thibault told SB Nation's Swish Appeal that the Sun would indeed take Charles with the number one pick. The Sun had acquired the pick and former UConn player Renee Montgomery from the Minnesota Lynx, in exchange for Lindsay Whalen and the number two pick.
For more on the draft, check out Swish Appeal.
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2010 WNBA Draft: Early Rounds Recap
Tina Charles will stay a hometown hero, going to the Connecticut Sun with the first pick of the 2010 WNBA draft. Joining her in the first round were:
2. Minnesota: Monica Wright (Virginia)
3. Minnesota: Kelsey Griffin (Nebraska) *traded to Sun
4. Chicago: Epiphanny Prince (Rutgers)
5. San Antonio: Jayne Appel (Stanford)
6. Washington: Jacinta Monroe (Florida State)
7. Connecticut: Danielle McCray (Kansas)
8. Los Angeles: Andrea Riley (Oklahoma State)
9. Atlanta: Chanel Mokango (Mississippi State)
10. Seattle: Alison Lacey (Iowa State)
11. Indiana: Jene Morris (San Diego State)
12. Los Angeles: Bianca Thomas (Ole Miss)
NCAA tourney luminaries Abi Olajuwon and Nyeshia Stevenson, both of Oklahoma, fell to the third round and are headed to Chicago and Phoenix, respectively. But you have to feel good for Appel, whose national title dreams ended in tears and injury earlier this week. A top-five pick has to be pretty soothing right about now.
The full draft board is available here; for more WNBA coverage visit SBN's Swish Appeal.
Apr 08 9:50p by Holly Anderson - 0 comments