Sometime around 5 p.m. EST on Sunday, April 6, the women's NCAA Championship will conclude and a winner will be crowned — the end to what has been yet another incredible, incendiary season of college basketball.
Attention will then shift to the next big date: April 14, the 2025 WNBA Draft. Thirty-eight young women (out of hundreds) will be drafted to WNBA teams, all hoping to make it to a final roster ahead of the beginning of the season in May. Of course, most of us know the reality: last year not even 50% of those drafted made it to a team's roster, and WNBA spots are still hard to come by and even harder to hang on to.
But the future of the league is bright: new CBA negotiations will create a more equitable space, and the addition of the Toronto Tempo and an as-yet-unnamed team in Portland, Oregon, will open up more roster spots for women in the future.
For now, 38 spots is what we have — here's who we think will take them.
2025 WNBA Mock Draft: Round One
No. 1, Dallas Wings: Paige Bueckers (UConn)
No. 2, Seattle Storm: Dominique Malonga (France)
No. 3, Washington Mystics: Sonia Citron (Notre Dame)
No. 4, Washington Mystics: Kiki Iriafen (USC)
No. 5, Golden State Valkyries: Aneesah Morrow (LSU)
No. 6, Washington Mystics: Shyanne Sellers (Maryland)
No. 7, Connecticut Sun: Ajsa Sivka (Slovenia)
No. 8, Connecticut Sun: Hailey Van Lith (TCU)
No. 9, Los Angeles Sparks: Georgia Amoore (Kentucky)
No. 10, Chicago Sky: Saniya Rivers (NC State)
No. 11. Minnesota Lynx: Te-Hina Paopao (South Carolina)
No. 12, Dallas Wings: Sedona Prince (TCU)
2025 WNBA Mock Draft: Round Two
No. 13, Las Vegas Aces: Madison Scott (Ole Miss)
No. 14, Dallas Wings: Juste Jocyte (Lithuania)
No. 15, Minnesota Lynx: Maddy Westbeld (Notre Dame)
No. 16, Chicago Sky: Serena Sundell (Kansas State)
No. 17, Golden State Valkyries: Harmoni Turner (Harvard)
No. 18, Atlanta Dream: Sarah Ashlee Barker (Alabama)
No. 19, Indiana Fever: Annika Soltau (Germany)
No. 20, Indiana Fever: JJ Quinerly (West Virginia)
No. 21, Seattle Storm: Aziaha James (NC State)
No. 22, Chicago Sky: Temira Poindexter (Kansas State)
No. 23, Washington Mystics: Sania Feagin (South Carolina)
No. 24, Minnesota Lynx: Liatu King (Notre Dame)
No. 25, Connecticut Sun: Makayla Timpson (Florida State)
2025 WNBA Mock Draft: Round Three
No. 26, Los Angeles Sparks: Megan McConnell (Duquesne)
No. 27, Dallas Wings: Lucy Olsen (Iowa)
No. 28, Los Angeles Sparks: Ugonne Oniyah (Cal)
No. 29, Seattle Storm: Aicha Coulibaly (Texas A&M)
No. 30, Golden State Valkyries: Diamond Johnson (Norfolk State)
No. 31, Dallas Wings: Taylor Jones (Texas)
No. 32, Washington Mystics: Madison Hayes (NC State)
No. 33, Indiana Fever: Aaliyah Nye (Alabama)
No. 34, Seattle Storm: Deasia Merrill (TCU)
No. 35, Las Vegas Aces: Dazia Lawrence (Kentucky)
No. 36, Atlanta Dream: Alyssa Ustby (North Carolina)
No 37, Minnesota Lynx: Julia Ayrault (Michigan State)
No. 38, New York Liberty: Rayah Marshall (USC)