{"id":601424,"date":"2026-04-13T15:23:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T15:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/601424\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T15:23:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T15:23:13","slug":"whos-going-no-1-in-wnba-draft-2026-mock-drafts-dont-have-same-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/601424\/","title":{"rendered":"Who&#8217;s going No. 1 in WNBA Draft 2026? Mock drafts don&#8217;t have same player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2026 WNBA Draft is on Monday night, and that means we&#8217;re getting one last round of WNBA mock drafts ahead of the real thing (shameless plug: Check out <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/2026-wnba-mock-draft-analyzing-170638843.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:our latest mock from Cory Woodroof;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;our latest mock from Cory Woodroof&quot;}\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">our latest mock from Cory Woodroof<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>But unlike other years (Paige Bueckers last year, Caitlin Clark in 2024 and so on), there isn&#8217;t necessarily a consensus No. 1 heading into the draft. There are a lot of folks who think it&#8217;s going to be Azzi Fudd from UConn. There are others who have TCU&#8217;s Olivia Miles heading to the Dallas Wings. And I&#8217;ve seen some other mocks that say otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>So, here you go: A roundup of who experts say is the top pick:<\/p>\n<p>WNBA mock drafts that have Azzi Fudd No. 1 overallWNBA mock drafts that have Olivia Miles going No. 1 overallWNBA mock drafts that have Awa Fam going No. 1 overall<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on For The Win: <a href=\"https:\/\/ftw.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/wnba\/2026\/04\/13\/wnba-mock-draft-2026-no-1-pick\/89587615007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:WNBA mock draft 2026: Who&#039;s going No. 1 overall?;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;WNBA mock draft 2026&quot;}\" class=\"link \">WNBA mock draft 2026: Who&#8217;s going No. 1 overall?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026 WNBA Draft is on Monday night, and that means we&#8217;re getting one last round of WNBA&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":601425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[76200,28454,49,735,48,227642,3459,183713,4658,227643,82,630],"class_list":{"0":"post-601424","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-2026-wnba-draft","9":"tag-azzi-fudd","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-caitlin-clark","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-cory-woodroof","14":"tag-dallas-wings","15":"tag-mock-drafts","16":"tag-paige-bueckers","17":"tag-shameless-plug","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601424","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=601424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}