Brown Ready for 2024 WNBA Draft

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DURHAM — Duke ladies’s basketball heart Kennedy Brown is about for the 2024 WNBA Draft, scheduled for Monday, April 15 on the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York. The WNBA Draft is slated to start at 7:30 p.m., ET and might be broadcast stay on ESPN.

Brown, a preseason Lisa Leslie Award watch record candidate, began all 33 video games this season for the Blue Devils averaging 8.3 factors, 5.5 rebounds and 1.3 blocks. She posted double determine scoring in 14 video games and pulled down not less than 5 rebounds in 23 contests together with three with 10-plus caroms. The Derby, Kan., product set the Duke report for many blocks in a primary quarter vs. Florida State (Jan. 25), tallying 4 of her game-high 5 rejections throughout the interval.

Moreover, Brown was one of many catalysts in serving to the Blue Devils publish the ACC’s high defensive for the second consecutive season whereas checking in at No. 4 within the NCAA in that very same metric, based on HerHoopStats.

Duke has had 26 student-athletes drafted since 1999 within the WNBA, with 11 of them being first-round draft picks – the marks rating No. 4 and No. 5 all-time, respectively. The Blue Devils at present characteristic 4 alumnae within the league together with Lexie Brown (Los Angeles), Chelsea Grey (Las Vegas), Elizabeth Williams (Chicago) and Jasmine Thomas (Los Angeles). 

Indiana owns the No. 1 choice within the 2024 draft, adopted by Los Angeles, Chicago, Los Angeles and Dallas within the top-five. Washington, Chicago, Minnesota, Dallas, Connecticut, New York and Atlanta spherical out the 12 picks within the first spherical.  The draft will characteristic three rounds and a complete of 36 picks. 

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