Nov 20, 2025, 09:17 AM ET<\/p>\n
In 2025, five WNBA teams are vying for the chance to pick the next potential face of their franchise. The Dallas Wings<\/a>, Minnesota Lynx<\/a>, Seattle Storm<\/a>, Washington Mystics<\/a> and Chicago Sky<\/a> are in the running to pick the No. 1 overall pick in next year’s WNBA draft. The ultimate winner will be decided with a lottery. UCLA<\/a>‘s Lauren Betts<\/a> is projected to be the No. 1 pick in ESPN’s latest mock draft<\/a>.<\/p>\n Check out more key facts about the 2026 WNBA draft lottery below:<\/p>\n When is the event? How can fans watch?<\/p>\n The draft lottery takes place on Sunday, Nov. 23. Fans can watch the lottery on ESPN at 6:30 p.m. ET. The WNBA streaming hub<\/a> will capture all of the action.<\/p>\n What is the format?<\/p>\n According to the league, four balls numbered 1-14 will be drawn from a machine. These balls determine a four-digit combination, and the team assigned that combination wins the No. 1 pick. The same is done for the No. 2 pick, while picks 3-5 are based on which teams had the worst records of the past two seasons.<\/p>\n How are teams chosen? <\/p>\n Lottery odds are based on the cumulative records of the past two WNBA regular seasons for the five teams that did not make the playoffs in the most recent season.<\/p>\n What are each team’s odds?<\/p>\n Dallas Wings (420 chances out of 1,000)<\/p>\n Minnesota Lynx, via Chicago Sky (261 chances out of 1,000)<\/p>\n Seattle Storm, via Los Angeles Sparks (167 chances out of 1,000)<\/p>\n Washington Mystics (97 chances out of 1,000)<\/p>\n Chicago Sky, via Connecticut Sun (55 chances out of 1,000)<\/p>\n When is the 2026 WNBA draft?<\/p>\n The 2026 WNBA draft is scheduled for April 13.<\/p>\n Check out the ESPN WNBA hub page<\/a> for scores<\/a>, standings<\/a>, stats<\/a>, schedules<\/a> and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nov 20, 2025, 09:17 AM ET In 2025, five WNBA teams are vying for the chance to pick…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":{"0":"post-303463","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}