College basketball teams with the most WNBA 1st-round draft picks

While hundreds of elite former women’s university basketball stars have heard their names called since the first WNBA design in 1997, one program stands above the rest of the school list that created the most rounds. This is Uconn, the twelve -time national program of victory in the National Championship. Huskies had 28 selections from the first round, which is by far the country.

In the design of WNBA 2025, Dallas Wings chose UConn’s Paige Bueckers at No. 1 overall.

Here are universities with the most wnba of the first round (until 2025):

ORDER	COLLEGE	First round
1	Uconne	28
2	Tennessee	21
3	Stanford	15
4	South Carolina	13
5	Baylor	11
5	Duke	11
5	Virgin Mary	11
6	Maryland	10
7	North Carolina	9
8	Georgia	8
8	Lsu	8

Do you see a trend with these specific schools? These 11 schools joined 32 national championships.

Since 1997, 26 out of the 29 total tips from NCAA Division I have come. The remaining three came from overseas.

No school created more total tips No. 1 than Connecticut, which has six.

Five total tips No. 1 UConn are Sue Bird (2002, Seattle Storm), Diana Taurasi (2004, Phoenix Mercury), Tina Charles (2010, Connecticut Sun), Maya Moore (2011, Minnesota Lynx), Breanna Stewart (2016, Seattle Storm) and Paige (2025, Dallas Wings).

A total of 18 schools had at least one selection No. 1, with five more than one.

Here are universities with the highest withdrawals of WNBA No. 1: