Expert 6-foot-7 middle Sedona Prince didn’t hear her title known as at Monday’s WNBA draft.
Prince was projected to go as excessive as late first spherical, however a collection of regarding allegations made her one of many hardest WNBA prospects to guage.
A number of girls have accused Prince of sexual assault or abuse in latest months.
She additionally confronted backlash from followers, with greater than 200,000 individuals signing a Change.org petition to have her faraway from the TCU girls’s basketball workforce.
Prince denied these allegations in a social media publish in August and has not been charged with any crime.
“Sedona has not been charged with a crime or found guilty of any wrongdoing,” Prince’s lawyer, A. Boone Almanza, informed ESPN in a press release earlier than the draft.
“Rather she has been convicted on social media by people who have attempted to use their relationship with Sedona to attract followers and to build their influencer careers and settle grudges. To the extent she has made any mistakes different from other young people in their early dating life it was solely the decision to be on TikTok.”
After going undrafted, there’s nonetheless the likelihood for Prince to be signed to a training-camp contract or proceed a taking part in profession abroad.
Prince, 24, had her school profession derailed quite a few instances by accidents.
Final season with TCU — her third college (Texas, Oregon) in seven years — she averaged 17.2 factors, 9.4 rebounds, three blocks and a pair of.4 assists and helped the Horned Frogs to this system’s first Elite Eight.
