Villanova star Siegrist likely off to WNBA draft

GREENVILLE, S.C.– Villanova Wildcats ladies’s basketball celebrity Maddy Siegrist claimed Friday she would certainly chat with her moms and dads concerning the choice to state for the WNBA draft. However she appeared rather specific her university job mored than after the No. 4 seed Wildcats’ 70-65 Wonderful 16 loss to the No. 9 seed Miami Hurricanes in the Greenville 2 Regional.

” You recognize, this was a great way to head out,” Siegist claimed in the Villanova storage locker space. “Making this round with this group, it was truly unique.”

It was Villanova’s initial journey to the Sugary food 16 considering that 2003. Siegrist, the Big East Gamer of the Year as well as a first-team Associated Press All-American, led Department I ladies’s as well as guys’s basketball this period in racking up standard, ending up at 29.2 PPG. Her 1,081 factors is the second-most racked up in an NCAA Department I ladies’s period, routing just the 1,109 of the Washington Huskies’ Kelsey Plum in 2016-17. Plum is currently with the WNBA’s Las Las vega Aces.

Siegrist had 31 factors as well as 13 rebounds Friday, although she battled from the area going 8 of 29. She currently has actually racked up a school-record 2,896 factors.

Siegrist redshirted the 2018-2019 period with an ankle joint injury, yet has actually been a Villanova starter the last 4 periods. Amongst her highlights this period were damaging the program racking up document established by Shelly Pennefather embeded in 1983-1987 as well as racking up a career-high 50 factors on Feb. 11 versus Seton Hall. She likewise balanced 9.2 rebounds as well as has actually had 1,102 in her job.

The 6-foot-2 onward is predicted as a top-five choice in the most recent WNBA mock draft by ESPN.

” I could not be extra pleased to have fun with this team,” Siegrist claimed. “I reached Villanova as well as simply wished to suffice to play right here. A great deal of the important things that occurred, I never ever assumed can have occurred. “Attempting to place it in viewpoint currently is difficult, yet I’m truly pleased just how much I came, as well as I boast of my job.”