Seven HBCU ladies’s basketball gamers have been chosen in WNBA historical past, with Jackson State’s Angel Jackson being the newest after her third-round choice in 2024.
Howard’s Denique Graves was the primary HBCU ladies’s basketball participant drafted to the WNBA again within the inaugural WNBA draft in 1997. Graves stays the very best HBCU WNBA draft choice, going fifteenth general. Graves is one in all three Bison to be chosen in WNBA draft historical past, giving Howard probably the most WNBA draft choices of any HBCU.
The Phoenix Mercury and Utah Starzz are the one WNBA franchises to pick out a number of HBCU gamers of their historical past. The Starzz made historical past in 2002 by deciding on two HBCU ladies’s basketball gamers in the identical draft.
Try the whole historical past of WNBA draft picks from HBCUs beneath.
| Yr Drafted | Participant | School | RD-Choose-OVR | WNBA Workforce |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Angel Jackson | Jackson State | Third-12-36 | Las Vegas Aces |
| 2022 | Ameshya Williams-Holliday | Jackson State | Third-1-25 | Indiana Fever |
| 2002 | Andrea Gardner | Howard | 2nd-11-27 | Utah Starzz |
| 2002 | Amba Kongolo | North Carolina Central | 4th-8-56 | Phoenix Mercury |
| 2002 | Jaclyn Winfield | Southern | 4th-11-59 | Utah Starzz |
| 1998 | Karen Wilkins | Howard | 4th-8-38 | Phoenix Mercury |
| 1997 | Denique Graves | Howard | 2nd-7-15 | Sacramento Monarchs |
