{"id":588662,"date":"2026-04-07T19:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T19:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/588662\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T19:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T19:41:09","slug":"uconn-womens-basketballs-azzi-fudd-projected-high-in-wnba-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/588662\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn women&#8217;s basketball&#8217;s Azzi Fudd projected high in WNBA Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Where will UConn&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctinsider.com\/sports\/uconn-womens-basketball\/azzi-fudd\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Azzi Fudd <\/a>be selected in\u00a0the WNBA Draft on Monday?<\/p>\n<p>Fudd, who helped lead the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctinsider.com\/sports\/uconn-womens-basketball\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UConn women&#8217;s basketball <\/a>team to the\u00a0NCAA Final Four this season, could be the No. 1 overall pick, most likely in the top five. Two of the more recent mock drafts have Fudd going somewhere in that vicinity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/wnba\/news\/2026-wnba-mock-draft-south-carolina-ucla-april-5\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CBS Sports<\/a> has projected Fudd to go third to the Seattle Storm in its latest mock draft, behind Awa Fam (Dallas) and Olivia Miles (Minnesota). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/onsi\/womens-fastbreak\/wnba\/2026-wnba-mock-draft-first-round-predictions\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sports Illustrated<\/a>&#8216;s mock has Fudd going fourth to the Washington Wizards. In this case, UCLA&#8217;s Lauren Betts is going ahead of Fudd \u2014 at No. 2 to Minnesota \u2014 along with Fam No. 1 and Miles No. 3. Betts is projected fifth in the CBS Sports mock draft.<\/p>\n<p>The Connecticut Sun, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctinsider.com\/news\/article\/connecticut-sun-wnba-houston-blumenthal-trump-22191426.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in its final season<\/a> before moving to Houston, is projected to select South Carolina&#8217;s\u00a0Ta\u2019Niya Latson at No. 12 by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/onsi\/womens-fastbreak\/wnba\/2026-wnba-mock-draft-first-round-predictions\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sports Illustrated<\/a> and\u00a0 UCLA&#8217;s Charlisse Leger-Walker with the final pick of the first round at No. 15. In the CBS Sports mock draft, UCLA&#8217;s Gabriela Jaquez goes to the Sun at No. 12 and Cotie McMahon from Ole Miss at No. 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Where will UConn&#8217;s\u00a0Azzi Fudd be selected in\u00a0the WNBA Draft on Monday? Fudd, who helped lead the UConn women&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[222054,49,48,222053,82,630],"class_list":{"0":"post-588662","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-all-daily-sites","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-ct-insider","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588662","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=588662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}