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WNBA Mock Draft Big Board 9.0: Final calls

By Howard Megdal

ALBANY, NY - MARCH 31: Louisville Cardinals Guard Asia Durr (25) dribbles the ball and gets a blocking foul on Connecticut Huskies Guard Crystal Dangerfield (5) defending during the second half of the game between the Connecticut Huskies and the Louisville Cardinals on March 31, 2019, at the Times Union Center in Albany NY. (Photo by Gregory Fisher/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
ALBANY, NY - MARCH 31: Louisville Cardinals Guard Asia Durr (25) dribbles the ball and gets a blocking foul on Connecticut Huskies Guard Crystal Dangerfield (5) defending during the second half of the game between the Connecticut Huskies and the Louisville Cardinals on March 31, 2019, at the Times Union Center in Albany NY. (Photo by Gregory Fisher/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) /
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PORTLAND, OR – MARCH 31: Mississippi State Bulldogs center Teaira McCowan (15) guards Oregon Ducks guard Maite Cazorla (5) during the NCAA Division I Women’s Championship Elite Eight round basketball game between the Oregon Ducks and Mississippi State Bulldogs on March 31, 2019 at Moda Center in Portland, Oregon. (Photo by Joseph Weiser/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
PORTLAND, OR – MARCH 31: Mississippi State Bulldogs center Teaira McCowan (15) guards Oregon Ducks guard Maite Cazorla (5) during the NCAA Division I Women’s Championship Elite Eight round basketball game between the Oregon Ducks and Mississippi State Bulldogs on March 31, 2019 at Moda Center in Portland, Oregon. (Photo by Joseph Weiser/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) /

Here’s Muffet McGraw on Marina Mabrey at the next level: ” She’s somebody that can pass. She can certainly score. She has the three-point record at Notre Dame. She’s smart, feisty. As a coach, you love to coach a player like Marina because she is such a competitor. She really never quits. She inspires the rest of her team to do the same.” This was prior to the championship game, when I then saw her lift the play and energy level of her teammates in the second, third and fourth quarters, Mabrey the igniter each time. It’s a different game, to be sure, but it was a very Tamika Catchings effect she had on her teammates, which I don’t say lightly. Her defense is criminally underrated, too. All Marina Mabrey needs is a chance, because once she gets out on the floor, no coach is going to want to pull her off.

Third Round

25. Indiana  Kennedy Leonard, Colorado 

26. New York Presley Hudson, Central Michigan

27. Chicago Maite Cazorla, Oregon 

28. Indiana (from Las Vegas) Caliya Robinson, Georgia

29. Dallas Li Yueru, China

30. Minnesota Natasha Hiedeman, Marquette

31. Los Angeles Marina Mabrey, Notre Dame

32. Phoenix Ayana Mitchell, LSU

33. Connecticut Miranda Drummond, Syracuse

34. Washington Alicia Froling, SMU 

35. Atlanta Kianna Ibis, Arizona State

36. Seattle Jenna Allen, Michigan State

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