2026 WNBA Draft: Best fits for NCAA stars Lauren Betts, Azzi Fudd, Olivia Miles

The WNBA 2026 draft is announced to include an incredibly deep and talented class of prospects. He will be titled by a potential unicorn and a player who could be a franchise cornerstone in the 6 -foot 7 -inch Lauren Betts, an elite playmaker and a creative passer in Olivia Miles, and a sniper at Azzi Fudd – whose shooting shape has won compliments by Steph Curry and Kevin during.

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The 2026 class will also include a large electricityguarding of the game in Flau’jae Johnson, a dynamic marker in Ta’niya Latson, a surgical shooter in Gianna Kneepkens, a crude but talented center of the 6 -footer 6 -inch Madina Okot, of the Omanche of Janiah Athletic Barker, and a trio of southern characteristics of the South characteristic. And let’s not forget Charlisse Leger-Walker, Raegan Beers or Rori Harmon.

On the basis of the way in which the current WNBA season takes place and what we have seen so far in the first half of the season, what follows here is not exactly a false project, but what could be ideal for some of these best prospects and which teams could use them the most.

Lauren Betts, Ucla: Seattle Storm

Ezi Magbegor is a good player, but the storm needs help inside. Seattle ranks in the last three of the league in 10 statistics of different rebounds, and they also died in the last point of the interior of the arc. The imposing betts would immediately improve the storm in the two regions. The national defensive player of the reigning year finished 20th in the country in offensive rebounds per match and fifth in blocks last season. She also finished fourth goals on the field made by match and ninth in shooting percentage.

Despite being a team of probable playoffs – the storm is currently fifth in the WNBA – Seattle ranking could be able to write Betts because they have the choice of the first round of the Sparks, thanks to the trade of Jewell Loyd. If Betts landed in Seattle, she would also have an excellent front zone mentor in Nneka Ogwumike.

Olivia Miles, TCU: Chicago Sky

Courtney Vandersloot is injured and is probably approached from the end of his career, and – so far – it is not clear if Hailey Van Lith is capable of being a starting caliber player in the WNBA. In other words, Chicago’s sky needs a dynamic leader who has the capacity to deliver the ball in the right place and at the right time to Angel Reese and Kamilla Cardoso. They could also use a player capable of creating his own blow and can be a threat of score.

Miles is all that and more. She has just led the United States team in assists at Americup and last season to Notre Dame has improved considerably as a 3-point shooter, increasing her percentage of 18 points. Miles is expected to improve as a guard by spending a season under Mark Campbell in TCU. The sky is currently ranking last in the WNBA in turnover per game, the second time in points per game, the fourth worst in 3 points and the second time by scoring. Miles has the potential to solve many of these problems.

Azzi Fudd, Uconn: Washington Mystics

The mystics are a team that seems to be fully in its movement for young people, because recruits Kiki Iriafen and Sonia Lemon have received great minutes and took advantage of it, winning places in the Stars team. However, the mystics could really use another threat from 3 -point land. They rank last in 3 points made per game, the price of 3 points and the points beyond the arc, in addition to being in the middle of the peloton – eighth – as a 3 -point shooting percentage.

Enter Fudd, which drew on the soil of 47% of last season, 43% in depth and 91% of the free throw line while she helped Uconn to win a national championship. Elected the most remarkable player in the Final Four, Fudd drew 44% deep throughout the NCAA tournament. Originally from Arlington, Virginia, who played St. John’s College High School, DMV fans would welcome his house with open arms.

Flau’jae Johnson, LSU: Toronto Tempo / Portland

In Johnson, the tempo or the expansion team of Portland could win a talented goalkeeper with a fan of superstar who would immediately become the face of the franchise, according to what these teams do in the draft expansion and the free agency. To improve as a marker every season that she spent in Baton Rouge, Johnson has an average career record of 18.6 points per game last season while totaling 5.6 rebounds, 2.5 assists and 1.7 interceptions. She also gained a career at the best of 38.3% from 3 -point land while making her way through Powerade advertisements.

Médine OKOT, South Carolina: Dallas Wings

The wings desperately need a center, which will race down – and the lottery – all the more interesting than the jockey teams for the position to write Lauren Betts. If the wings cannot get Betts, Okot could be the next best option. The 6-inch 6-inch center was already playing for the Kenyan national team before she passed her feet in the dry last season, where she has an average double-double for the state of the Mississippi. It also pulled 64.9% of the soil, which led the dry and was fourth national. Okot is now about to spend a year under Dawn Staley in South Carolina, a program that has a talent for developing ready -made job players for the prudent ready.