{"id":449626,"date":"2026-02-05T02:02:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T02:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/449626\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T02:02:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T02:02:33","slug":"uconn-alums-set-for-2025-wnba-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/449626\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn Alums Set for 2025 WNBA Season"},"content":{"rendered":"

STORRS, Conn. \u2013 Fifteen former UConn women’s basketball players are on 10 WNBA rosters as the 2025 WNBA season kicks off Friday.<\/p>\n

No. 1 draft pick Paige Bueckers<\/a> makes her official WNBA debut tonight vs. the Minnesota Lynx at 7:30 p.m. ET. The Atlanta Dream and Washington Mystics also tip off at 7:30 p.m. and the Golden State Valkyries play their first-ever game vs. the Los Angeles Sparks at 10 p.m.<\/p>\n

All of Friday’s games will air on Ion and will be available to stream for free on WNBA League Pass.<\/p>\n

In addition to Bueckers, UConn alums on WNBA rosters this season include: Moriah Jefferson and Kia Nurse (Chicago Sky); Tina Charles, Bria Hartley and Olivia Nelson-Ododa<\/a> (Connecticut Sun); Tiffany Hayes (Golden State Valyries); Kiah Stokes (Las Vegas Aces); Azur\u00e1 Stevens (Los Angeles Sparks); Napheesa Collier (Minnesota Lynx); Breanna Stewart (New York Liberty); Katie Lou Samuelson and Gabby Williams (Seattle Storm); and Stefanie Dolson and Aaliyah Edwards<\/a> (Washington Mystics).<\/p>\n

Stewart led the New York Liberty to the team’s first WNBA Finals title in 2024. Collier was named the league’s Defensive Player of the Year. Stewart and Collier were All-WNBA and All-Defensive First Team selections.<\/p>\n

In the 2025 WNBA GM survey<\/a>, Collier is the favorite to win WNBA MVP while Bueckers is the favorite to win Rookie of the Year.<\/p>\n

Samuelson and Nika M\u00fchl will miss the 2025 season due to injury. Dorka Juh\u00e1sz and Lou Lopez S\u00e9n\u00e9chal will sit out the 2025 WNBA season for personal reasons.<\/p>\n

To view the entire 2025 WNBA season, including TV information, click HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STORRS, Conn. \u2013 Fifteen former UConn women’s basketball players are on 10 WNBA rosters as the 2025 WNBA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-449626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449626","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=449626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}