{"id":600970,"date":"2026-04-13T10:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T10:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/600970\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T10:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T10:20:08","slug":"kentucky-louisville-wbb-players-to-watch-for-in-wnba-draft-2026-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/600970\/","title":{"rendered":"Kentucky, Louisville WBB players to watch for in WNBA draft 2026 today"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tonie Morgan<\/a> made the most of her final college season with the Kentucky women’s basketball<\/a> team.<\/p>\n

The Georgia Tech transfer replaced Georgia Amoore as the Wildcats’ starting point guard averaged 13.8 points and 7.9 assists to help the team reach the Sweet 16<\/a> in the NCAA Tournament. Morgan will now hope to hear her name called during the WNBA draft<\/a> later this evening.<\/p>\n

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CBS Sports<\/a> projects the Florida native to go 20th to the Los Angeles Sparks<\/a>, while Swish Appeal has her being selected by the Seattle Storm<\/a> with the No. 16 pick. Swish Appeal<\/a> has her teammate, center Teonni Key<\/a>, gong 20th to the Sparks. Key was Kentucky<\/a>‘s second-leading rebounder (7.5 per game) while averaging 11.4 points and 1.3 blocks.<\/p>\n

On the other side of the Battle of the Bluegrass rivalry, Louisville<\/a> forward Laura Ziegler<\/a> will also look to begin her professional career in the WNBA. She performed well at the mid-major level during her time at Saint Joseph’s and made the most of her one year in a Power Four conference. The Denmark native played an integral role in the Cards’ record-setting season, supplying the team with 11 points, 6.9 rebounds and 2.9 assists en route to a Sweet 16 appearance<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ziegler is projected to be selected by the Las Vegas Aces<\/a> with the 44th pick, per Swish Appeal.<\/p>\n

Here’s what to know about the 2026 WNBA Draft:<\/p>\n

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What time is the 2026 WNBA Draft?<\/p>\n

The WNBA Draft is set to begin at 7 p.m. today at the Shed in Manhattan, New York.<\/p>\n

What channel is the 2026 WNBA Draft on?<\/p>\n

The draft will be broadcast on ESPN.<\/p>\n

How to stream the 2026 WNBA Draft<\/p>\n

If you subscribe to a cable package, you’ll be able to livestream the game via ESPN.com and the ESPN app. If you don’t have cable, you can livestream the game via\u00a0ESPN+<\/a>\u00a0(subscriber only).<\/p>\n

Which Louisville, Kentucky players could be selected in 2026 WNBA Draft?<\/p>\n

Laura Ziegler, forward, Louisville<\/p>\n

Teonni Key, center, Kentucky<\/p>\n

Tonie Morgan, guard, Kentucky<\/p>\n

Jordan Obi, guard, Kentucky<\/p>\n

Amelia Hassett, forward, Kentucky<\/p>\n

Reach\u00a0Louisville football, women’s basketball and baseball beat writer Alexis Cubit at\u00a0acubit@gannett.com<\/a>\u00a0and follow her on X at @Alexis_Cubit.<\/p>\n

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This article originally appeared on Louisville Courier Journal: WNBA draft projections for Louisville Cardinals, Kentucky Wildcats WBB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tonie Morgan made the most of her final college season with the Kentucky women’s basketball team. The Georgia…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":600971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,8996,89986,4505,3460,227559,632,6395,1611,82,227558,227560,630,38381],"class_list":{"0":"post-600970","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-georgia-amoore","11":"tag-georgia-tech","12":"tag-kentucky","13":"tag-las-vegas-aces","14":"tag-laura-ziegler","15":"tag-los-angeles-sparks","16":"tag-louisville","17":"tag-seattle-storm","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-swish-appeal","20":"tag-tonie-morgan","21":"tag-wnba","22":"tag-wnba-draft"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600970","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=600970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}