Charisma Osborne and Camryn Brown announce they will be returning to the UCLA women's basketball team after indicating they would be turning pro.
on Wednesday, giving the Bruins four returning starters next year. Point guard Gina Conti, who exhausted her college eligibility, is the only starter not returning, pushing expectations for the team even higher after the Bruins made a surprise run to the Pac-12 tournament title game.
The victory seemed like a perfect swan song in front of her hometown fans who were expecting the senior to declare for the draft. Osborne was on the WNBA’s initial list of players who renounced their remaining college eligibility on March 28. It was three days after UCLA was eliminated from the NCAA tournament by No. 1 seed South Carolina in front of a packed crowd of nearly 13,000 in Greenville, S.C.
Osborne was a top-five pick in some mock drafts at the beginning of the season, but was projected to be a late first- or early second-round pick in Monday’s WNBA draft. She will now try her luck in a stacked 2024 group that could feature stars such as, Iowa’s Caitlin Clark, Connecticut’s Paige Bueckers and Stanford’s Cameron Brink.
about the potential of making as much as a WNBA rookie salary, which is less than $63,000 this season, through endorsement deals.
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