injury she suffered against Providence<\/a>, it could vastly improve her draft stock.\u00a0<\/p>\nRaven Johnson has been scoring more this season<\/p>\n
Johnson has been a starter for Dawn Staley since her second full season at South Carolina. She earned her coach\u2019s trust by playing tough defense and running the offense well. Johnson has never been much of a scorer, though.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Before this season, her highest scoring average was the 8.1 points per game she put up in the 2023-24 season. That year, she scored double-digit points in 16 games. In her other two healthy seasons, she reached that mark a total of six times. This season, Johnson has already scored ten or more points in ten games, including a 14-point performance against USC.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Johnson still doesn\u2019t take a ton of shots, but she is proving that she can score\u2014and do so efficiently. Fourteen games into the season, Johnson is shooting 50% from the floor and 38.9% from three. Both mark career highs, and Johnson\u2019s 3-point percentage is up by almost ten percent compared to last season on a slightly higher volume.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Johnson could make a WNBA roster even if she isn\u2019t picked in the first round<\/p>\n
Even if Johnson keeps up her elevated scoring, it might not be enough to hear her name called in the first round. But that doesn\u2019t mean she doesn\u2019t have a future in the WNBA. Johnson could very well make a roster as a second-round pick, especially with two more teams joining the league and a possible addition of developmental spots to the rosters.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Johnson brings a few things to the table that WNBA teams value in young role players: experience, defensive tenacity, and the ability to fill a specific role very well. If she can bring all of that to a training camp, she could easily find herself on a WNBA bench. Her former teammate Te-Hina Paopao did the same thing after the 2025 draft. She was selected in the second round and played significant minutes for the Atlanta Dream.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Raven Johnson is arguably South Carolina\u2019s most important player next to Joyce Edwards. She is the longest-tenured player…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":{"0":"post-377965","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\/377965","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=377965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}