{"id":575774,"date":"2026-04-10T11:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T11:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/575774\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T11:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T11:10:08","slug":"wisconsin-womens-basketball-star-declares-for-wnba-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/575774\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin women&#8217;s basketball star declares for WNBA Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Destiny Howell, who spent her senior season with the <a href=\"https:\/\/badgerswire.usatoday.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Wisconsin Badgers;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;Wisconsin Badgers&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Wisconsin Badgers<\/a>, has officially declared for the WNBA draft.<\/p>\n<p>The WNBA continues to reach new heights when it comes to contracts for its players, so Howell has a chance to really take her career to the next level.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The four-year Howard player came to Madison for the 2025-26 season, where she averaged 14.0 points, 2.9 rebounds, and 1.3 assists per game. For what it&#8217;s worth, her career-high in points (16.8) came in 2022-23 with both her career-high in rebounds (4.3) and assists (2.6) coming last season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m excited to announce that I will be declaring for the 2026 WNBA draft. Ever since I was 9 years old, it&#8217;s been my dream to play professional basketball. I&#8217;m finally stepping into that moment, trusting wherever god takes me. Ready to work,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/dest1nyhowell\/?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Howell wrote;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;Howell wrote&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Howell wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>She continued, &#8220;I appreciate everyone who&#8217;s been part of the journey and supported me along the way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Howell was part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/ncaaf\/teams\/wisconsin-badgers\/3442\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Badgers;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;Badgers&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Badgers<\/a>&#8216; miraculous WBIT run, where they snapped a 10-game losing streak and made it all the way <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/wisconsins-cinderella-run-wbit-comes-113525119.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:to the semifinals;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;to the semifinals&quot;}\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">to the semifinals<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Officially, her collegiate career comes to an end with 1,924 points with a 38% field goal percentage. Of the 1,810 field goals she attempted, 900 of those came from three-point range. Howell shot 33.8% from distance during her five-year career.<\/p>\n<p>Contact\/Follow\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thebadgerswire\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:@TheBadgersWire;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;@TheBadgersWire&quot;}\" class=\"link \">@TheBadgersWire<\/a>\u00a0on X (formerly Twitter) and like our page on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/badgerswire\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;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;Facebook&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0to follow ongoing coverage of Wisconsin Badgers news, notes and opinion.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Badgers Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/badgerswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/college\/badgers\/womens-basketball\/2026\/04\/10\/wisconsin-destiny-howell-draft\/89533729007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Wisconsin women&#039;s basketball Destiny Howell declares WNBA Draft;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;Wisconsin women&#039;s basketball Destiny Howell declares WNBA Draft&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Wisconsin women&#8217;s basketball Destiny Howell declares WNBA Draft<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Destiny Howell, who spent her senior season with the Wisconsin Badgers, has officially declared for the WNBA draft.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[253175,16964,253176,99,7561,434,2940],"class_list":{"0":"post-575774","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-destiny-howell","9":"tag-professional-basketball","10":"tag-senior-season","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-wisconsin-badgers","13":"tag-wnba","14":"tag-wnba-draft"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575774","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=575774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}