Shelley choose by Phoenix in WNBA draft
Nebraska basketball’s Jaz Shelley was selected by the Phoenix Mercury through the WNBA draft on Monday evening. Shelley was taken with the twenty ninth general choose within the third spherical.
She turns into the primary Husker to go straight from Nebraska to the WNBA since Jordan Hooper in 2014. The Tulsa Shock chosen Hooper because the No. 13 general choose.
The native from Moe, Australia, averaged 13.4 factors, 4.3 rebounds, and 5.7 assists whereas serving to the Cornhuskers to the second spherical of the 2024 NCAA Match.
Over her three-year Nebraska profession, Shelley completed sixteenth on the varsity’s all-time scoring listing with 1,364 factors. She was certainly one of three Australians taken on this 12 months’s draft, and certainly one of seven Massive Ten Convention gamers chosen.
Phoenix is coming off a 9-31 season in 2023 with a sixth-place end within the Western Convention.
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