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