Indiana secured the rights to the top pick in next years draft on Friday night.
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The Fever secured the rights to the No. 1 overall selection in the 2023 WNBA draft Friday night after winning the draft lottery for the first time in franchise history.
Indiana entered the night with the top odds at securing the No. 1 pick (44.2%) after posting a league-worst 11–57 record over the past two seasons. After the Fever missed out on the draft’s top prize twice since 2019, the third time proved to be the charm in ’22 as the team looks to add another top prospect and continue its rebuild.
The Lynx, who held the fourth-best odds at the No. 1 pick with a 10.4% chance, will select second overall followed by the Dream (27.6%) and Mystics (17.8%).
As teams continue to evaluate prospects ahead of next April’s draft, South Carolina star Aliyah Boston and Stanford star Haley Jones figure to emerge as the consensus top two selections following their impressive collegiate careers.
Widely-regarded as the favorite to go first, Boston, the reigning National Player of the Year, enters her senior season this fall after leading the program to coach Dawn Staley’s second NCAA title last season, and being named Most Outstanding Player. Meanwhile, Jones, a 2021 NCAA champion and that year’s MOP, will look to cap her standout run by leading Stanford to its third straight Final Four.
The order of the remaining first-round selections and the next two rounds of the draft will be determined by the inverse order of teams’ regular season records in 2022.
Check below for the entire list of first-round selections, as of Nov. 11:
1. Indiana Fever
2. Minnesota Lynx
3. Atlanta Dream
4. Washington Mystics (via Los Angeles)
5. Chicago Sky (via Phoenix)
6. New York Liberty
7. Indiana Fever (via Dallas)
8. Atlanta Dream (via Washington)
9. Seattle Storm
10. Connecticut Sun
11. Dallas Wings (via Chicago)
12. Minnesota Lynx (via Las Vegas)
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