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2002 WNBA draft

2002 meeting of WNBA teams to select players

Field	Value
name	2002 WNBA draft
sport	Basketball
date	April 19, 2002
league	WNBA
first	Sue Bird
Seattle Storm
prev	[2001](2001-wnba-draft)
next	[2003](2003-wnba-draft)

Seattle Storm

The 2002 WNBA draft was the first to implement a lottery that arranges the order of the first four overall picks. The lottery gave four teams with the identically worst record of 10–22 from the 2001 season an equal chance to own the first overall selection, which the Seattle Storm did.

Four of the top six draft picks, Sue Bird (#1), Swin Cash (#2), Asjha Jones (#4) and Tamika (Williams) Raymond (#6) were from the same team, the 2002 NCAA champion University of Connecticut.

Key

Draft

Round 1

Pick	Player	Position	Team	School / club team
1	Sue Bird * !	G	Seattle Storm	Connecticut
2	Swin Cash * ^ !	F	Detroit Shock
3	Stacey Dales-Schuman +	G	Washington Mystics	Oklahoma
4	Asjha Jones *	F	Washington Mystics (from Indiana)	Connecticut
5	Nikki Teasley *	G	Portland Fire (traded to Los Angeles)	North Carolina
6	Tamika Williams	F	Minnesota Lynx	Connecticut
7	Sheila Lambert	G	Charlotte Sting (from Orlando)	Baylor
8	Deanna Jackson	F	Cleveland Rockers (from Phoenix)	UAB
9	Shaunzinski Gortman	G	Charlotte Sting (traded to Minnesota)	South Carolina
10	Michelle Snow +	C	Houston Comets	Tennessee
11	Danielle Crockrom	F	Utah Starzz	Baylor
12	Hamchétou Maïga	G/F	Sacramento Monarchs	Old Dominion
13	Tawana McDonald #	C	Indiana Fever (from Miami via Phoenix)	Georgia
14	LaNeishea Caufield	G	Utah Starzz (from New York)	Oklahoma
15	Tamara Moore	G/F	Miami Sol (from Cleveland via Phoenix)	Wisconsin
16	Rosalind Ross #	G	Los Angeles Sparks	Oklahoma

Round 2

Pick	Player	Position	Team	School / club team
17	Zuzi Klimešová	F	Indiana Fever (from Washington)	Vanderbilt
18	Lenae Williams	G/F	Detroit Shock	DePaul
19	Lucienne Berthieu	F/C	Seattle Storm	Old Dominion
20	Ayana Walker	F	Detroit Shock (from Indiana)	Louisiana Tech
21	Jill Chapman	C	Detroit Shock (from Portland)	Indiana
22	Kathy Wambe #	G	Detroit Shock (from Minnesota)	Dexia Namur (Belgium)
23	Davalyn Cunningham	F	Orlando Miracle	Rutgers
24	Brandi McCain	G	Cleveland Rockers (from Phoenix)	Florida
25	Tootie Shaw #	F	Phoenix Mercury (from Charlotte)	Wichita State
26	Linda Fröhlich	F	New York Liberty (from Houston)	UNLV
27	Andrea Gardner	F/C	Utah Starzz	Howard
28	Felicia Ragland	G	Seattle Storm (from Sacramento)	Oregon State
29	Lindsey Yamasaki	G/F	Miami Sol	Stanford
30	Gergana Slavcheva	G	Los Angeles Sparks (from New York, traded to Portland)	Florida International
31	Angie Welle #	C	Cleveland Rockers	Iowa State
32	Jackie Higgins #	F/C	Los Angeles Sparks	North Carolina

Round 3

Pick	Player	Position	Team	School / club team
33	LaNisha Cartwell #	C	Washington Mystics	Alabama
34	Kelly Komara #	G	Indiana Fever (from Detroit)	Purdue
35	Takeisha Lewis	F/C	Seattle Storm	Louisiana Tech
36	Teresa Geter #	F/C	Washington Mystics (from Indiana)	South Carolina
37	Mandy Nightingale #	G	Portland Fire	Colorado
38	Lindsey Meder #	G	Minnesota Lynx	Iowa
39	Saundra Jackson #	C	Orlando Miracle	Ole Miss
40	Kayte Christensen	F	Phoenix Mercury	UC Santa Barbara
41	Edniesha Curry	G	Charlotte Sting	Oregon
42	Shondra Johnson #	G	Houston Comets	Alabama
43	Edmarie Lumbsley #	C	Utah Starzz	Mobile
44	Alayne Ingram #	G	Sacramento Monarchs	Michigan
45	Jerica Watson #	F	Miami Sol	Iowa
46	Tracy Gahan #	G	New York Liberty	Iowa State
47	Ericka Haney #	G/F	Detroit Shock (from Cleveland)	Notre Dame
48	Rashana Barnes #	F	Los Angeles Sparks	Penn State

Round 4

Pick	Player	Position	Team	School / club team
49	LaKeisha Taylor #	C	Indiana Fever (from Washington)	Arizona
50	Melody Johnson #	C	Portland Fire (from Detroit)	Arizona State
51	Jermisha Dosty #	C	Sacramento Monarchs (from Seattle)	Saint Mary's
52	Jillian Danker #	G/F	Indiana Fever	Vanderbilt
53	Monique Cardenas #	G	Portland Fire	Florida
54	Shárron Francis #	G	Minnesota Lynx	Old Dominion
55	Tomeka Brown #	G	Orlando Miracle	Ohio State
56	Amba Kongolo #	F/C	Phoenix Mercury	North Carolina Central
57	Jessie Stomski #	F	Charlotte Sting	Wisconsin
58	Cori Enghusen #	C	Houston Comets	Stanford
59	Jacklyn Winfield #	G	Utah Starzz	Southern
60	Elizabeth Pickney #	F	Sacramento Monarchs	Arizona
61	Jerkisha Dosty #	F	Miami Sol	Saint Mary's
62	Deedee Warley #	F	New York Liberty	Maryland
63	Marché Strickland #	G	Cleveland Rockers	Maryland
64	Tiffany Thompson #	F	Los Angeles Sparks	Old Dominion

UConn Fab Four

Connecticut Huskies players Tamika Williams, Sue Bird, Asjha Jones and Swin Cash were all selected in the first round of the draft. Each player had immediate impacts with their 2002 WNBA Teams. Cash, Bird and Williams accounted for 21.3, 19.9 and 17.3 percent, respectively, of their teams’ total points, rebounds and assists. Jones, a reserve, posted 8.8 percent of the Mystics' total output in those three key categories.

References

WNBA Draft: Pick-by-pick at ESPN.com

References

"History of the WNBA Draft Lottery". wnba.com.
"Connecticut's Fab Four Makes Pro Basketball History". wnba.com.

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