Gustafson invited to attend WNBA Draft
Iowa’s Megan Gustafson has been invited to the WNBA Draft in New York, as she looks to become the first Hawkeye to be drafted since 2015.
Iowa center Megan Gustafson drives to the hoop during the Iowa/Mizzou NCAA Tournament second round women’s basketball game in Carver-Hawkeye Arena on Sunday, March 24, 2019. The Hawkeyes defeated the Tigers, 68-52.
April 9, 2019
Iowa senior Megan Gustafson has been invited to attend the 2019 WNBA Draft in New York on Wednesday, as the league announced the invite-only guest list on Tuesday.
Those also invited include Cal’s Kristine Anigwe, Baylor’s Kalani Brown, Connecticut’s Napheesa Collier, Missouri’s Sophie Cunningham, Louisville’s Asia Durr, Mississippi State’s Teaira McCowan, Notre Dame’s Arike Ogunbowale, Connecticut’s Katie Lou Samuelson, Stanford’s Alanna Smith, Notre Dame’s Jackie Young, and Han Xu from China.
ESPN’s most recent mock draft has Gustafson going in the first round at No. 12 overall to the defending WNBA champion Seattle Storm.
Iowa has had 12 players selected in the draft in the program’s history, the most recent being Samantha Logic, who was taken by the Atlanta Dream with the No. 10 overall pick in 2015.
Gustafson led the NCAA with 27.8 points per game, while also finishing the season first in field goal percentage (69.6) and third in rebounding (13.4), becoming the only women’s player in Division-1 history to put up those numbers in the same season. Gustafson also led the country with 33 double-doubles.
In Iowa’s loss to Baylor in the Elite Eight, Gustafson became just the fourth women’s player in NCAA history to score 1,000 points in a season.
The first round of the WNBA Draft will be broadcasted on ESPN2 at 6 p.m., while coverage of the second and third rounds can be found on ESPNU.
