Some of the best players from the 2025-26 women’s college basketball season heard their names called Monday, April 13 in New York at the 2026 WNBA Draft.
And several didn’t.
While UConn star Azzi Fudd went No. 1 overall to the Dallas Wings and UCLA saw six players – including five in the first round – from its national championship team selected, some other top players in the sport went undrafted by WNBA teams.
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Mia Nicastro of Western Illinois was fourth in the nation in scoring this season with 24.1 points per game and didn’t hear her name called. Neither did South Dakota State’s Brooklyn Meyer, who was the Becky Hammon Mid-Major Player of the Year. While playing for Texas A&M, Ny’Ceara Pryor was fourth in the nation in assists and eighth in steals and still went unselected.
Several other college stars went undrafted too, like Iowa’s Hannah Stuelke, Maryland’s Yarden Garzon, Miami’s Ra Shaya Kyle, Texas center Kyla Oldacre, and the Texas Tech duo of Bailey Maupin and Snudda Collins.
Here are the three best players that went undrafted. Expect them to receive training camp invites where they’ll have the chance to make a roster.
Maggie Doogan, Richmond
A 6-foot-2 forward, Doogan powered Richmond to three consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances, and this season was the highest single-game scorer, pouring in 48 points in a triple-overtime win in January. Doogan averaged 21.1 points, 7.9 rebounds and 3.9 assists per game this season while shooting 50.6% from the floor, 40.4% from 3-point land and 89.1% from the free throw line – just shy of a coveted 50-40-90 season.
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When Doogan scored 26 points on 10-of-14 shooting to go along with six rebounds in a Feb. 14 win at Davidson, representatives from the Toronto Tempo, Atlanta Dream and Dallas Wings were in the building. She also participated in trials for the AmeriCup last summer with Team USA.
Doogan has often played well in big games. She had 30 points and 15 rebounds in an NCAA Tournament upset of Georgia Tech last season, scored 27 points against UCLA in the second round and scored in the 20s against both TCU and Texas this past season. In this year’s NCAA Tournament, she had 24 points and 10 rebounds against Nebraska.
Raegan Beers, Oklahoma
Raegan Beers runs onto the court prior to Oklahoma’s game against South Carolina in the Sweet 16 on March 28, 2026.
Perhaps undersized for a center at 6-foot-3, Beers was a double-double machine for the majority of her college career, averaging 16.1 points and 9.7 rebounds per game across 129 contests with Oregon State and then Oklahoma.
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Her 62.4% career shooting clip from the floor is the fourth-best all-time in the history of the SEC. In each of the past three seasons, Beers ranked inside the top 25 nationally in player efficiency rating, too.
And wherever Beers was, her teams won. Oregon State went to the Elite Eight with her as the frontcourt anchor in 2024, and Oklahoma has been a top 16 seed and made the Sweet 16 in each of the past two seasons.
Beers was the Pac-12 Rookie of the Year in 2023, a two-time All-SEC selection and a one-time All-American.
Shay Ciezki, Indiana
What Ciezki did this season flew under the radar a bit because Indiana wasn’t all that good, finishing 18-14 overall and 6-12 in Big Ten play. However, Ciezki put up a 50-40-90 season.
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While posting 22.8 points, 3.8 rebounds and 3.1 assists per game, the 5-foot-7 guard from Lancaster, New York shot 52.6% from the floor, 44.6% from behind the arc and 90.8% from the free throw line. Since 2009, she is one of two players in Division I women’s basketball to have a 50-40-90 season while also averaging north of 20 points per game. The other was Eva Hodgson of William & Mary, pulling it off in the 2019-20 season.
Ciezki, who started her college career at Penn State, shot 40% from 3-point range and 89% from the free throw line across 129 collegiate games.
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: WNBA Draft 2026: Maggie Doogan, Raegan Beers among those not picked
