TCU Women's Basketball Stars Van Lith, Conner Selected in 2025 WNBA Draft

Hailey Van Lith (left) and Madison Conner

TCU women's basketball stars Hailey Van Lith and Madison Conner were selected in the recent 2025 WNBA Draft.

Van Lith was selected in the first round, with the No. 11 overall pick, by the Chicago Sky.

Conner was drafted 29th overall, in the third round, by the Seattle Storm. She was released by the Storm before the WNBA season began.

TCU's women basketball program was one of five to produce multiple draft picks, joining UConn, Notre Dame, South Carolina and Alabama.

Van Lith and Conner are TCU's second and third WNBA Draft choices in program history. TCU last produced a WNBA Draft pick in 2005 . Sandora Irvin went No. 3 overall to the Phoenix Mercury.
 
Van Lith departed TCU with 2,616 points, 698 rebounds, 579 assists and 171 games started. She became the NCAA record holder for most games started and minutes played (5,692) following her first and only season in Fort Worth in 2024-25. 

Van Lith led her teams Louisville, LSU, TCU) to a 145-31 combined overall record across her five-year collegiate career. She became the first and only player in the history of the sport to lead three separate schools to the Elite Eight. She helped lead TCU to its debut appearance in an NCAA Regional Final this past season.

Val Lith's 2024-25 campaign was the greatest single season a TCU basketball player has engineered. She was tabbed an All-American by all four major media organizations. The 5-9 guard swept Big 12 Player and Newcomer of the Year accolades and was named the league's tournament MVP.  She averaged 17.9 points, 5.4 assists and 4.6 rebounds per game, while concluding the year with a 1.8 assist-to-turnover ratio. Van Lith broke TCU's single-season records for points scored (683) and assists (204). She was one of three players in the country in 2024-25 to record 600 points and 200 assists.
 
Conner led the NCAA in 3-pointers (128) and ranked second nationally in 3-pointers per game (3.4) in 2024-25. Conner was the lone Division 1 player to finish in the top 10 in 3-pointers, 3-pointers per game and 3-point percentage (10th, .449) in the final NCAA statistical rankings. She scored four-or-more 3-pointers in an NCAA-leading 19 games. Conner shattered her own program for most 3-pointers in a season and departed campus ranked second in the Big 12 single-season record book in the category.
 
Conner was an Ann Meyers-Drysdale Award finalist, All-Big 12 first team player and owner of the best career 3-pointers per game average (3.5) in the history of the Big 12. She left TCU with the third-highest career scoring average (16.4 ppg) by any player in program history. Her 227 combined 3-pointers across her two-year TCU career are the fourth-most ever recorded by a Horned Frog.