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[QUOTE="UConnCat, post: 2787814, member: 15"]
There have been some players who've made USA BB's WNT while in college or after graduating and completing their first WNBA season.  Those players include Holdsclaw, Parker, Bird, Taurasi, Moore, Stewart and Sims.  There may be others.  Griner took herself out of the running for a spot on the 2012 Olympic team.

Others make the team based on their play in the WNBA and overseas.  USA BB does pay attention to what players do overseas and has mentioned the importance of exposure to the international game.   Playing overseas can be a way to improve your resume when your WNBA team doesn't make the playoffs.

Griner, EDD and Diggins all graduated in 2013.  Griner made the 2014 world championship team and EDD and Diggins did not.  EDD may have been ill (Lyme disease) while Sims was chosen over Diggins.  Sims and Stewart (still in college) played very little in Istanbul.

In looking at the competition at point guard I'd guess Diggins or Gray or both make the team.  The fact that Jasmine Thomas was just added to the pool suggests that USA BB is not satisfied with how certain point guard candidates are looking this summer.  Clarendon and Sims have been so-so; Plum and Mitchell don't seem ready.  Gray and Diggins are having the best regular seasons of the point guards not named Bird.
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