{"id":579696,"date":"2026-04-03T14:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T14:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/579696\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T14:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T14:04:08","slug":"is-azzi-fudd-entering-the-2026-wnba-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/579696\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Azzi Fudd entering the 2026 WNBA Draft?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UConn star guard Azzi Fudd is about to finish her playing days in Storrs.<\/p>\n<p>As the Huskies play in Friday&#8217;s Final Four game against South Carolina in Phoenix, Fudd could be playing in her final college game if UConn loses.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Fudd is expected to enter the 2026 WNBA Draft as soon as UConn&#8217;s season ends. After five years at UConn, Fudd will soon begin her WNBA career. She&#8217;s expected to be a high draft pick, even as high as the first selection.<\/p>\n<p>Fudd is one of UConn&#8217;s better players in quite some time, but her college days will end very soon. The WNBA awaits.<\/p>\n<p>Where could she get drafted?<\/p>\n<p>We expect Fudd to go either to the Dallas Wings first or the Minnesota Lynx second.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on For The Win: <a href=\"https:\/\/ftw.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ncaaw\/2026\/04\/03\/is-azzi-fudd-entering-2026-wnba-draft-uconn-season\/89443996007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Is Azzi Fudd entering the 2026 WNBA Draft after UConn season?;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Is Azzi Fudd entering the 2026 WNBA Draft after UConn season?&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Is Azzi Fudd entering the 2026 WNBA Draft after UConn season?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UConn star guard Azzi Fudd is about to finish her playing days in Storrs. As the Huskies play&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[28454,49,48,63515,221993,3459,221994,736,517,82,4664,630],"class_list":{"0":"post-579696","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-azzi-fudd","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-college-days","12":"tag-college-game","13":"tag-dallas-wings","14":"tag-final-four-game","15":"tag-minnesota-lynx","16":"tag-south-carolina","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-uconn","19":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}