WNBA Draft Lottery Live during ESPN’s SportsCenter for Second Consecutive Year

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WNBA Draft Lottery Live during ESPN’s SportsCenter for Second Consecutive Year

Photo of Rachel Margolis Siegal Rachel Margolis Siegal Follow on Twitter December 9, 2013

For the second consecutive year, the WNBA Draft Lottery will be televised live on ESPN at 4:30 p.m. during SportsCenter.  The 2014 WNBA Draft Lottery – from Secaucus, N.J. on Tuesday, Dec. 10 – will be hosted by Kevin Negandhi.

The Connecticut Sun, New York Liberty, Tulsa Shock, and San Antonio Silver Stars – all which missed the playoffs last season – will be looking to secure the top pick in the 2014 Draft presented by State Farm next April.

Connecticut, which posted a record of 10-24, has the best opportunity (44.2 percent) to win the top pick in the 2014 Draft.  New York and Tulsa, which both finished the year at 11-23, will have the second most chances to land the top pick (22.7 percent each).  San Antonio, which ended the campaign at 12-22, rounds out the lottery-eligible teams and has a 10.4 percent chance to win the first overall selection.

WNBA officials and a representative from the accounting firm of Ernst & Young will conduct the draft lottery.  The lottery will establish the first four picks of the draft.  The order of selection for the remainder of the first round, as well as the second and third round, is determined by inverse order of the teams’ respective regular-season records from 2013.

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Rachel Margolis Siegal

A part of the Internal Communications team at ESPN, I began with the network in 2010 as part of the College Sports PR team. Always an avid sports fan and not an athlete – I grew up a huge fan of the Hartford Whalers, while also watching my brother compete at different levels. I became the manager of several high school sports teams and continued that hobby into college. While at Quinnipiac, I worked in the Sports Information Department, which led me to a summer internship at the New Haven Ravens, a AA baseball team, and an eventual job with the Athletic Communications Department at the University of Connecticut. After my five-year stint at Connecticut, I spent six years as Director of Communications at the BIG EAST Conference in Providence, R.I. before joining ESPN.
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