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ISO Spotlight: How 2020 WNBA Draftees Fit With Their New Teams

Apr 18, 2020, 5:09 PM

Lauren Cox is in Indiana. Chennedy Carter is in Atlanta. Now what?

ISO Spotlight: How 2020 WNBA Draftees Fit With Their New Teams

On Friday, the WNBA held its annual draft, and it was a night that was heavy on prospects from Texas universities. A strong in-state senior class plus the early entry of Texas A&M guard Chennedy Carter ensured that this would be a night where numerous prospects from the Lone Star State made their way onto professional women's basketball teams.

For those of you reading this who watch a lot of college basketball but not a lot of WNBA basketball, one important feature is that each year, there's a 36 player draft, but each year there are also only somewhere between 132 and 144 WNBA roster spots. That makes it very, very hard for young players to crack the final roster, especially players who weren't taken in the first round. That means that all the Texas prospects aside from Lauren Cox and Chennedy Carter are facing uncertain paths to making final WNBA rosters.

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