College basketball teams with the most WNBA 1st-round draft picks

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While hundreds of elite former women’s college basketball stars have heard their names called since the first WNBA draft in 1997, one program stands above the rest on the list of schools that have produced the most first-round draft picks. That’s UConn, the 11-time national championship-winning program. The Huskies have had 27 first-round picks, which is by far the most in the country.

In the 2024 WNBA draft, the Indiana Fever selected the University of Iowa’s Caitlin Clark as No. 1 overall. 

Here are the colleges with the most WNBA first-round draft picks (through 2024):

RANK COLLEGE FIRST ROUND PICKS
1 UConn 27
2 Tennessee 21
3 Stanford 15
4 South Carolina 13
5 Baylor 11
5 Duke 11
6 Notre Dame 10
6 Maryland 10
7 North Carolina 9
8 Georgia 8

Do you see the trend with these particular schools? These 10 schools have combined for 31 national championships. 

Since 1997, 25 of the 28 top…

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