For WNBA Fans

Bob Corwin of Full Court Press has a change that he thinks the WNBA should consider: "shortening the draft to two rounds maximum".

Assuming the Minnesota Lynx begin the 2011 season healthy and with a longer pre-season, optimists could simply dismiss last year as a fluke. So after winning the right to select Moore yesterday as well as holding the fourth pick, how do we begin to set expectations for them now?

Over the last two weeks we've written quite a bit previewing, covering, and recapping the WNBA draft. With articles scattered all over the site and difficult to find, here are links to pretty much everything we've written in order to bring some measure of order to the chaos we've created.

An update of the previous list of prospects by position, with links to all of our analysis and noting some statistical sleepers.

As reported by Swish Appeal and widely assumed since the Connecticut Sun acquired the first pick in the 2010 WNBA Draft from the Minnesota Lynx, University of Connecticut center Tina Charles was selected first in the draft two days after finishing her collegiate career with a second consecutive national championship and a 78-0 winning streak.

In particular, two things that happened just yesterday could potentially affect the sequence of the 2010 WNBA Draft, which takes place today at noon PST on ESPN2: the Tulsa Shock traded the seventh pick to the Connecticut Sun and an announcement was made that Jayne Appel will be out 3-4 weeks with a stress fracture.

There are quite of few players in the 2010 WNBA Draft who tended to be prolific scorers in college, but may have to demonstrate that they can play point guard in the WNBA. While some of them have been the lead ballhandler for their teams at times, the question for all of them is how effective they will be when they are suddenly faced with bigger defenders at the next level.

What UConn's Kalana Greene has gotten that some other shooting guard prospects haven't is exposure. Just being on a tournament team in the spotlight certainly does give Greene a boost, especially with a loaded shooting guard position. Conversely, players who have been out of the spotlight for a while - like Penn State's Tyra Grant - might get the short end of the stick as a result.

While some players will enter the draft with gaudier accolades, a flashier style, or even more points, Penn State's Tyra Grant is focusing on the little things. For her, that starts with her work ethic and she is working with one of the hardest working players ever: WNBA legend Yolanda Griffith.