With the 2024-25 NCAA women’s basketball season right around the corner, it’s a good time to start thinking about which collegiate players have the best chance at getting drafted to the WNBA next spring.
Though a lot can happen over the course of the season, it’s widely assumed that UConn’s Paige Bueckers will be the first player taken in the 2025 draft. Bueckers is far from the only big-name collegiate player to watch, though; the 2025 draft class is projected to be a fairly deep one, particularly at the guard position, and while we don’t yet know the complete draft order (the draft lottery will take place on Sunday, Nov. 17), there are a handful of names that will likely be chosen sooner in the draft rather than later.
The following is, of course, far from an exhaustive list. There are plenty more NCAA players who are worth following if you’re a WNBA fan, and we’ll be taking more in-depth looks at them here at Swish Appeal throughout the season. That being said, here are some names to put on your radar before the games begin.
Kiki Iriafen (USC)
2023-24 stats (with Stanford): 19.4 points, 11 rebounds and 2.3 assists per game
If the 2025 WNBA Draft was held today, Iriafen would have the best chance at challenging Bueckers for the No. 1 overall pick. Among…
