On Monday, the WNBA draft will welcome a new generation of stars to help carry the league forward. Luckily for us, we were able to watch several of those stars do their thing on the NCAA stage this year, highlighted by their work in the recently concluded NCAA tournament.
Today, let’s look at the WNBA and fantasy hoops prospects for three of those stars in South Carolina’s Aliyah Boston, Maryland’s Diamond Miller and Villanova’s Maddy Siegrist.
Aliyah Boston: Defensive Post Presence
Boston has been the favored to be the No. 1 overall pick in this draft since long before this season. She was considered the premier post prospect in her high school class in 2019, and when she got to college she cemented her status early on.
At 6-foot-5, Boston is one of the most dominant interior players to come along this generation. She is a four-time All-American, back-to-back NCAA Defensive Player of the Year and in 2022 turned in the trifecta of Naismith Player of the Year, Most Outstanding Player and NCAA championship as she led the South Carolina Gamecocks to the title.
Boston is one of the best prospects to…