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Campus Connection: Schools that have Produced the Most WNBA Draft Picks
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[QUOTE="SVCBeercats, post: 4385834, member: 7874"] [B][SIZE=6]Sliced and diced several ways. Before viewing the post and article, what [/SIZE][/B][SIZE=6][B]s[/B][/SIZE][B][SIZE=6]chool produced the most WNBA league MVPs? Not most MVP players. Most MVPs. I missed it.[/SIZE][/B] [HEADING=2][URL unfurl="true"]https://www.wnba.com/news/campus-connections-schools-that-have-produced-the-most-wnba-draft-picks/[/URL][/HEADING] Below is the list of the top 10 schools (and one country) that have sent the most players to the WNBA via the draft. [LIST] [*][B]Connecticut[/B]: 40 players [*][B]Tennessee[/B]: 40 players [*][B]Stanford[/B]: 27 players [*][B]Duke[/B]: 25 players [*][B]Georgia[/B]: 24 players [*][B]Baylor[/B]: 21 players [*][B]North Carolina[/B]: 21 players [*][B]Rutgers[/B]: 21 players [*][B]Australia[/B]: 20 players [*][B]Maryland[/B]: 19 players [*][B]Notre Dame[/B]: 19 players [/LIST] [B][U]Schools producing the most No. 1 overall picks [ATTACH type="full" alt="1663183369612.png"]79038[/ATTACH][/U][/B] There have been four occasions in which the first two players selected came from the same school: [LIST] [*][B]USC (1997):[/B] Tina Thompson (1 / Houston), Pam McGee (2 / Sacramento) [*][B]UConn (2002)[/B]: Sue Bird (1 / Seattle), Swin Cash (2 / Detroit) [*][B]UConn (2016)[/B]: Breanna Stewart (1 / Seattle), Moriah Jefferson (2 / San Antonio) [*][B]Oregon (2020)[/B]: Sabrina Ionescu (1 / New York), Satou Sabally (2 / Dallas) [/LIST] [B][U]The NCAA Title / No. 1 WNBA Pick Double - won NCAA Championship and drafted first overall[/U][/B] [LIST] [*][B]Sue Bird[/B] (UConn, 2002) – drafted first overall by Seattle [*][B]Diana Taurasi[/B] (UConn, 2004) – drafted first overall by Phoenix [*][B]Candace Parker[/B] (Tennessee, 2008) – drafted first overall by Los Angeles [*][B]Tina Charles[/B] (UConn, 2010) – drafted first overall by Connecticut [*][B]Breanna Stewart[/B] (UConn, 2016) – drafted first overall by Seattle [/LIST] [B][U]Schools that have produced the most WNBA league MVPs[/U][/B] [LIST] [*][B]USC:[/B] 2 players, 5 MVPs – Cynthia Cooper (1997, 1998), Lisa Leslie (2001, 2004, 2006) [*][B]Connecticut:[/B] 4 players, 4 MVPs – Diana Taurasi (2009), Tina Charles (2012), Maya Moore (2014), Breanna Stewart (2018) [*][B]Tennessee:[/B] 2 players, 3 MVPs – Candace Parker (2008, 2013), Tamika Catchings (2011) [/LIST] [/QUOTE]
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