# 2002 WNBA draft

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.

## Draft

| * | Denotes player who has been selected for at least one All-Star Game and All-WNBA Team |
| $^+$ | Denotes player who has been selected for at least one All-Star Game |
| Bold | Denotes player who won Rookie of the Year |

### Round 1

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

### Round 2

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

### Round 3

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

### Round 4

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