Caitlin Clark has been the first chosen and will play in Indiana with number 1. She will become a WNBA player next month, fulfilling the dream she had since she was a child.

The guard led her team to the national championship final, but was defeated for the second year in a row. The final shattered viewership records for women's college basketball, but it was also much more watched than the men's final and even the NBA finals in recent years. The WNBA awaits her arrival with an expectation comparable to that raised by Frenchman Victor Wembanyama in the NBA last year. But the league's current players are unimpressed. Diana Taurasi, 41, the WNBA's all-time leading scorer, comparable to LeBron James, left a message to the rookies in an interview on ESPN by Scott Van Pelt (known as SVP) “Look, SVP. Reality is coming. We all go through that. That happens in theNBA, and you're going to see it on this side.”