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WNBA fans made Paige Bueckers jokes after the Wings won the draft lottery

Paige Bueckers might land with the Dallas Wings, and the jokes are flying.

The Dallas Wings won the 2025 WNBA Draft Lottery, and the Paige Bueckers jokes are splendid.

Sunday’s selection process to determine the first four picks of next year’s draft was a doozy. Let’s start with the unexciting stuff. As expected, Washington’s failed tank job seemingly kept the team out of the Bueckers sweepstakes at pick No. 4 (sorry, Mystics fans), and Chicago managed to avoid the awkwardness of potentially swapping picks with Dallas by landing at No. 3. Then, it got a little spicy.

The Sparks, who many thought would walk away with the first pick, landed at No. 2. That cleared a path for the Dallas Wings to land at the top of the draft. In a wild twist of events, former Sparks coach Curt Miller, now the Wings’ general manager, will be part of the team potentially selecting Paige Bueckers next spring. WILD TIMES.

As you can see, Miller and Wings star Arike Ogunbowale were thrilled. But, of course, the jokes started flying after that.

Honestly, these are truly tremendous.

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Notre Dame guards projected top-four picks ahead of WNBA draft lottery

This would reflect quite well on the Irish.

Notre Dame guards [autotag]Olivia Miles[/autotag] and [autotag]Sonia Citron[/autotag] are headed for the WNBA after this season. At least that’s the expectation. The real question is how high both players will be picked in the draft.

The WNBA draft lottery will take place Sunday. The participants are the Washington Mystics, Los Angeles Sparks, Dallas Wings and Chicago Sky. According to two projects, Miles and Citron both have a chance to be picked by one of those teams in the top four of the draft.

Tankathon has Miles and Citron going back-to-back at third and fourth, which would be an incredible accomplishment for the Irish. ESPN isn’t as optimistic with Miles going fourth and Citron projected as the final pick of the first round. ESPN previously had Miles going fifth and Citron 11th.

First things first though, both players are focused are bringing the Irish a national championship. Having [autotag]Hannah Hidalgo[/autotag] and rising freshman [autotag]Kate Koval[/autotag] with them will make the journey a lot easier.

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Latricia Trammell is the latest WNBA coach to not make it more than 3 seasons

Latricia Trammell is the fourth WNBA coach fired within the last month.

The Dallas Wings have parted ways with head coach Latricia Trammell.

On Friday, Howard Megdal of The Next Hoops broke the news that Trammell was out after a 9-31 year and a 31-49 tenure during two seasons.  According to Megdal, the Wings let go of Trammell to restructure the front office and hire a general manager, who will presumably want to hire their own coach.

This season, the Wings were decimated by injuries, including a months-long absence from star Satou Sabally. Ultimately, Dallas could not build on a 22-18 season in 2023, during which the team made a deeper run into the playoffs, ultimately falling just shy of the Finals.

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Trammell’s departure is the fourth since the regular season ended on September 19. The former Wings coach joins Tanisha Wright in Atlanta (three seasons), Curt Miller in Los Angeles (two seasons) and Teresa Weatherspoon in Chicago (one season) as coaches who were with their respective teams for three seasons or less.

With Trammell gone, Dallas will also look for its sixth coach in 10 years. Other than previous coach Fred Williams, who lasted five seasons, no other coach in the last decade has lasted more than two years with the organization.

Trammell’s short stint is not particularly alarming — the average tenure for a WNBA coach is two and a half years — but it’s not great for establishing consistency. It also restarts the clock for the franchise to return to the WNBA Finals, which it hasn’t done since 2008 when it was the Detroit Shock.

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Teaira McCowan got ejected over tense exchange with Aliyah Boston then diabolically waved to cameras

Fans loved Teaira McCowan waving to cameras after an exchange with Aliyah Boston got her ejected.

Teaira McCowan was not a fan of the officiating during a Wings-Fever matchup. After she was ejected for getting a technical during an exchange with Aliyah Boston, she diabolically waived to nearby cameras.

The referees during a Dallas-Indy thriller were not really high up on McCowan’s list before she was ejected. She was already sitting on one technical and had given them a thumbs-down gesture earlier in the game.

Then, late in the 4th quarter, Teaira exchanged words with Aliyah Boston, eventually shoving her mid-conversation, which earned her another tech — Aliyah got a tech, too — and a subsequent ejection. The wild thing was there were not even two seconds left on the game clock. So, McCowan seemingly waited in the visitors’ tunnel for her team and then diabolically waived to nearby cameras.

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In a stunning twist of events, WNBA fans actually thought her wave was pretty spectacular. They loved it. Here’s how they reacted:

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Notre Dame alum Arike Ogunbowale becomes all-time leading scorer for Dallas Wings

The Notre Dame alum is putting up lots of points in a hurry.

Arike Ogunbowale is now the all-time leading scorer for the WNBA’s Dallas Wings. The Notre Dame alum has 3,972 points after scoring 11 against the New York Liberty in a 99-67 loss Thursday night.

She’s in just her sixth season in the league and reached the mark in game number 193. She passes Deanna “Tweety” Nolan, who needed nine years and 293 games to reach 3,971. Ogunbowale, a guard who played at Notre Dame from 2015 to 2019, got the record on free throws with 4:27 remaining in Thursday’s game.

She needs just 28 points to reach 4,000, and if she does that in her next two games, she will pass Breanna Stewart to be the WNBA player who reaches that mark the fastest.

Stewart needed 196 games to hit that mark.

 

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Former Ohio State guard Jacy Sheldon signs to play overseas

Sheldon is headed to The Land Down Under #GoBucks

Former Ohio State guard Jacy Sheldon is adapting to the WNBA game nicely. She was drafted No. 5 overall by the Dallas Wings and worked her way into the starting lineup midway through the season. Now she’ll continue to adjust to the professional level, this time in the WNBA offseason.

Sheldon signed a contract with the Townsville Fire of the Women’s National Basketball League. Townsville is located in Queensland, Australia, where the Fire won the league championship in 2023.

Head coach, Shannon Seebohm is excited to be getting a player of Sheldon’s caliber.

“Jacy is a very exciting player who has the ability to turn a game with her elite speed and shooting ability. She’s an extremely tough defender and competes every second she is on the floor. Additionally, she’s a great person and someone who ticked all the boxes for us during the recruiting process. We are really excited to have her join our team as soon as she completes her rookie WNBA season,” said Coach Seebohm.

Many WNBA players go overseas to play in the offseason and many times they make three to four times as much as they do playing in the States. The WNBA will be on a short three-and-a-half-week break as some players will be competing in the Summer Olympics. Play will resume mid-August where Sheldon and the Wings will have 15 games left in the regular season. She’ll join the Fire shortly after the completion of her rookie season.

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Caitlin Clark slamming down a water bottle in frustration sparked an absolutely priceless reaction from a Wings game day staffer

I mean, how else could you respond to someone slamming a water bottle right by you?

Indiana Fever rookie guard Caitlin Clark made history on Wednesday night, but her frustration came out as her team struggled for consistency against the Dallas Wings.

During one game break, Clark was so irked by something, perhaps by just turning the ball over, that she slammed a water bottle onto the court as she sat down on the sideline.

The clip came with an absolutely hysterical reaction from one of the Wings’ game day staffers, who immediately reacted with an “Oh, yikes” face once Clark slammed the water bottle down.

This was an incredibly human moment for both Clark and the Wings’ game day staffer, and an incredibly funny one to boot.

If anything, we’re just chuckling to ourselves and hoping the water bottle is OK!

Feature image courtesy of ESPN. 

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Two former Notre Dame players make WNBA All-Star roster

Congrats, Arike and Kayla!

The final decade or so of [autotag]Muffet McGraw[/autotag]’s tenure at Notre Dame saw her develop many future WNBA stars. Those stars have their mark on today’s league and have earned the right to display their skills as much as possible.

The WNBA All-Star roster for the annual All-Star Game on July 20 in Phoenix has been announced. That roster will include the Dallas Wings’ [autotag]Arike Ogunbowale[/autotag] and the Minnesota Lynx’s [autotag]Kayla McBride[/autotag], two players who came up with the Irish.

Ogunbowale was named to the team by virtue of being one of the top 10 vote-getters among fans, players and media. McBride was one of eight additional players named after coaches completed the final round of voting. Among those on the final ballot but not making the roster were the Seattle Storm’s [autotag]Skylar Diggins-Smith[/autotag] and the Chicago Sky’s [autotag]Marina Mabrey[/autotag].

The WNBA All-Stars will face the U.S. Olympic team, which includes the Las Vegas Aces’ [autotag]Jackie Young[/autotag], who also was one of the top 10 WNBA vote-getters, and the Storm’s [autotag]Jewell Loyd[/autotag].

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Five former Notre Dame players among top 20 WNBA scorers

These ladies are making Irish fans proud.

Before too long, Notre Dame coach [autotag]Niele Ivey[/autotag] will be sending players she’s had as head coach to the WNBA. For now though, a few of [autotag]Muffet McGraw[/autotag]’s former players are tearing the league up through their scoring. But a lot of people might not seem to realize just how much they’re lighting up the scoreboard.

While most fans are focused on the budding rivalry between Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese, just as much focus should be going to the professionals the Irish have developed. If you need more convincing of that, check out this tweet from @trendyhoopstars:

That’s unbelievable. It’s a testament to how great the program has been for a while now but especially during McGraw’s final decade coaching the Irish. It should come as no surprise that these players have blossomed professionally and are giving the development at some other prominent women’s basketball schools a run for their money. UConn and South Carolina aren’t the only two programs worthy of attention.

So who are the former Irish players turning heads through the first month-and-a-half of the WNBA season, and where do they rank among the league’s scoring leaders? It’s these five:

Former Ohio State guard Jacy Sheldon gets the start for Dallas

It was only a matter of time #GoBucks

When players move on to the next level it always takes some time to adjust to the new speed of the game. Whether it’s high school JV to varsity, varsity to college, or college to the pros, there’s a learning curve that takes place.

Former Ohio State guard Jacy Sheldon has had to deal with that same adjustment, but it seems like she’s starting to figure it out. Sheldon got her first career start in the WNBA after being selected No. 5 overall by the Dallas Wings.

After 14 games into the season and seeing her playing time increase the past several weeks, the former Buckeye got the nod to start in game 15. Sheldon logged the second-most minutes of any player for the Wings on the night. She scored nine points while adding six rebounds, three assists, two steals, and zero turnovers.

Unfortunately, the Wings lost the game to the Chicago Sky by a score of 83-72. Dallas has lost nine games in a row and will look to get back in the win column when it faces the Washington Mystics on Saturday. Maybe more Jacy Sheldon will help the Wings turn things around.

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