Will Caitlin Clark stay at Iowa or will she go to the WNBA this year? How about UConn‘s Paige Bueckers, Stanford‘s Cameron Brink or LSU‘s Angel Reese? The 2024 WNBA draft could be a franchise-changer for more than one team.
Or it could be a case of delayed gratification, leaving us waiting for 2025 as the real blockbuster draft. We might not know which it will be until after the Final Four on April 5 and 7. Players have until March or — if their teams are alive in the postseason — until 48 hours after their last game to declare for the draft. The 2024 WNBA draft is April 15.
The NCAA granted a waiver to student-athletes competing in the 2020-21 season providing them an extra year of eligibility due to the circumstances surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic and how it affected their competitive experience. Players who were freshmen that year — which includes the likes of Clark, Bueckers, Brink and Reese — are the last class that can exercise the waiver and return for a fifth season.
Thus, the waiver could have an impact on the WNBA draft for the…
