When you think of the most successful women’s college basketball programs, names like UCONN, Baylor and South Carolina stick out. Each have filled the WNBA with talent over the past 26 years, but the Ohio State Buckeyes have a history of their own.
A good place to start for interesting Scarlet & Gray to WNBA connections is where it all began: the 1997 season. Katie Smith, the 1996 B1G Player of the Year, is known as one of the best Buckeye alums to play professionally, but Smith isn’t the first Ohio State player in the league.