The Washington Mystics had six picks overall and three in the first round of Monday’s WNBA Draft, and finished that with another number of interest – two players from national champion UCLA.
With the No. 4 pick, their own selection, the Mystics selected 6-foot-7 center Lauren Betts, who was a three-year starter for the Bruins and led the team in points and rebounds this past season. Five selections later, they took her teammate, Angela Dugalic, and left the draft with half of a new roster.
Here are capsule profiles of the six selections the Mystics made, including two in the second round and one in the third:
ROUND 1, NO. 4 OVERALL: C Lauren Betts, UCLA
Betts was, as mentioned above, the leader in PPG (17.1) and RPG (8.8) for the national champs, and was also third in assists with 3.2 per game. The consensus first-team All-American, who recorded three straight double-doubles in the Elite 8, Final 4, and National Championship Game for the Bruins, was the first of three straight UCLA players selected in the first round and six overall in the draft.
ROUND 1, NO. 9 OVERALL: F Angela Dugalic, UCLA
With the selection acquired from Seattle in the August 2025 Brittney Sykes deal, the Mystics selected a second Bruin in Dugalic, a key reserve who scored 9.0 points and grabbed 5.9 rebounds per game for the national champs. She was a starter in 2023-24 and 2024-25 after missing most of the previous two seasons due to knee injuries, and has been a member of the Serbian National Team.
ROUND 1, NO. 11 OVERALL: F Cotie McMahon, Ole Miss
With the pick acquired from Connecticut in the August 2025 Aaliyah Edwards deal, the Mystics added McMahon, who spent one season at Ole Miss after three at Ohio State. In her lone season in Oxford, McMahon was named First-Team All-SEC after averaging 19.5 points on 45.1% shooting, with 5.1 rebounds and 3.0 assists per game. She too, like Betts and Dugalic, has national team experience, having won gold with Team USA in the 2023 FIBA U-19 World Cup.
ROUND 2, NO. 19 OVERALL: G Cassandre Prosper, Notre Dame
The Mystics opened their second round by taking a fourth former national team member in Canadian Prosper, who started all 36 games for the Irish last season and averaged 13.6 points and 6.5 rebounds. Her 27 games in double figures and six double-doubles helped Notre Dame reach the Elite Eight for the first time since 2019.
ROUND 2, NO. 30 OVERALL: G Darianna Littlepage-Buggs, Baylor
With the final pick in Round 2, which they acquired from Minnesota in August 2024, the Mystics selected Littlepage-Buggs, who was Second Team All-Big 12 and part of the conference’s All-Defensive Team. A four-year starter in Waco, Littlepage-Buggs averaged 10.6 points and 10.1 rebounds per game in 2025-26 – her second straight year averaging a double-double – and leaves the Bears with the fourth-most rebounds in program history.
ROUND 3, NO. 34 OVERALL: G Rori Harmon, Texas
The final selection for the Mystics was the 5-foot-6 Harmon, a four-time conference All-Defensive Team selection between the Big 12 and SEC. She started 155 of 157 games over five years in Austin, setting two program career records with 977 assists and 388 steals. The most impressive stat? In her five years with the Longhorns, the team was 136-21 with five conference championships and two trips to the Final Four.
