These tourney stars are coming to a WNBA franchise near you

On Monday, the WNBA draft will welcome a new generation of stars to help carry the league forward. Luckily for us, we were able to watch several of those stars do their thing on the NCAA stage this year, highlighted by their work in the recently concluded NCAA tournament.

Today, let's look at the WNBA and fantasy hoops prospects for three of those stars in South Carolina's Aliyah Boston, Maryland's Diamond Miller and Villanova's Maddy Siegrist.

Boston has been the favored to be the No. 1 overall pick in this draft since long before this season. She was considered the premier post prospect in her high school class in 2019, and when she got to college she cemented her status early on.

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At 6-foot-5, Boston is one of the most dominant interior players to come along this generation. She is a four-time All-American, back-to-back NCAA Defensive Player of the Year and in 2022 turned in the trifecta of Naismith Player of the Year, Most Outstanding Player and NCAA championship as she led the South Carolina Gamecocks to the title.

Boston is one of the best prospects to enter the WNBA in years, following in the footsteps of another former Gamecock in A'Ja Wilson, who has two WNBA MVP awards and a championship ring in her first four professional seasons.

On Monday, it is overwhelmingly likely that Boston becomes the top pick for the Indiana Fever. As long as that happens, she'll become the centerpiece for a young, rebuilding team that already featured four first round draft picks from the 2022 draft: second pick NaLyssa Smith, fourth pick Emily Engstler, sixth pick Lexie Hull and 10th pick Queen Egbo.

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