INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Fever selected three players in Monday night's WNBA Draft.
The Fever had two picks in the second round and one in the third round. Indiana selected Makayla Timpson, Bree Hall and Yvonne Ejim with the 19th, 20th and 33rd overall picks, respectively.
The Fever did no
t have a pick in the first round of this year's draft. Per a February release from the Fever, Indiana sent the No. 8 overall pick in the draft to the Connecticut Sun during a four-team trade.
In that trade, Indiana acquired guard Sophie Cunningham and the No. 19 overall pick in this year's draft from the Phoenix Mercury. The Fever also got guard Jaelyn Brown from the Dallas Wings in the trade.
The Fever dealt forward NaLyssa Smith to the Wings during the trade. Indiana also swapped 2027 third-round draft picks with Dallas.
The Wings selected UConn guard Paige Bueckers with the No. 1 overall pick in this year's draft. Buckers averaged 19.9 points, 4.4 rebounds and 4.6 assists per game this season. Her efforts helped the Huskies win a national championship earlier this month.
The Sun used the No. 8 overall pick they received from the Fever to select North Carolina State guard Saniya Rivers. Rivers played for both South Carolina and North Carolina State during her collegiate career.
Rivers averaged 9.2 points, 5.1 rebounds and 3.1 assists across the 128 collegiate games she played.
Below is a brief summary of the players the Fever selected in Monday night's draft:
Makayla Timpson, forward, Florida State
AUSTIN, TEXAS - MARCH 22: Makayla Timpson #21 of the Florida State Seminoles takes a free throw during the first round of the 2024 NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament held at Moody Center on March 22, 2024 in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Scott Wachter/NCAA Photos via Getty Images)
Timpson played all four years of her collegiate career at Florida State.
Across 131 career games, Timpson averaged 25.9 minutes, 13 points and 8.4 rebounds per game. In her final two seasons with the Seminoles, Timpson averaged a double-double, putting up 14.3 points and 10 rebounds per game in 2023-24 and 17.5 points and 10.6 rebounds a contest in 2024-25.
Florida State earned NCAA Tournament berths in each of Timpson's four seasons there. In those postseason tournaments, however, the Seminoles never made it further than the Round of 32.
Bree Hall, guard, South Carolina
TAMPA, FLORIDA - APRIL 04: Bree Hall #23 of the South Carolina Gamecocks celebrates on the bench in the fourth quarter against the Texas Longhorns in the Final Four game of the NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament at Amalie Arena on April 04, 2025 in Tampa, Florida. (Photo by Carmen Mandato/Getty Images)
Like Timpson, Hall played all four years of her collegiate career for one team. On her career, she played 147 games, averaging 18.3 minutes, 5.8 points and 2.3 rebounds per contest.
In her first two years at South Carolina, Hall played fewer than 14 minutes per game. In her final two seasons with the Gamecocks, Hall averaged more than 23 minutes per game.
Her most productive season at South Carolina was 2023-24. She put up 9.2 points, 2.9 rebounds and 1.5 assists per game that year.
South Carolina made the tournament every year Hall was there. The Gamecocks won national championships in 2021-22 and 2023-24. South Carolina fell to UConn in this year's national championship game earlier this month.
The team South Carolina beat in the 2023-24 national championship game was the Caitlin Clark-led Iowa Hawkeyes. During her first two seasons at South Carolina, Hall also played with now-Fever center Aliyah Boston.
Yvonne Ejim, forward, Gonzaga
BOULDER, COLORADO - MARCH 23: Yvonne Ejim #15 of the Gonzaga Bulldogs reacts during the second quarter against the Colorado Buffaloes at the CU Events Center on March 23, 2025 in Boulder, Colorado. (Photo by Andrew Wevers/Getty Images)
Ejim played five season of college basketball at Gonzaga. The Canadian-born forward participated in 161 games for the Bulldogs, averaging 14.8 points, 7.1 rebounds and 1.6 assists per game.
In her first season with the Bulldogs, Ejim averaged just 6.5 minutes a contest. In the latter four years of her college career, she played at least 20 minutes per game.
During the 2024-25 season, Ejim racked up 20.7 points, 9.3 rebounds, 2.5 assists per game. She also averaged more than 31 minutes a game during her final season at Gonzaga.
Gonzaga made the NCAA Tournament in four of Ejim's five seasons there. The Bulldogs missed the NCAA Tournament in 2024-25.
Gonzaga made its deepest NCAA Tournament run in 2023-24, advancing to the Sweet 16.
Rookies' outlook
In the WNBA, the maximum number of players a team can carry on its roster is 12. The Fever had 12 players on their roster prior to Monday's WNBA Draft even starting.
That means, Timpson, Hall and Ejim may face an uphill climb to make the team.
Six players on Indiana's roster are returning from the 2023-24 season. Indiana made the playoffs last year, though they lost to the Connecticut Sun in the first round.
Cunningham and Brown were acquired by the Fever via four-team trade. Forwards DeWanna Bonner and Natasha Howard were among Indiana's biggest free agent acquisitions during the offseason.
Returning players, players acquired via trade and Howard and Bonner account for 10 of Indiana's 12 available roster spots. Should the Fever choose to retain all 10 of those players, that would mean their three new rookies would be competing with guard Sydney Colson and center Jillian Alleyne for the remaining two roster spots.
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