The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
Women’s Basketball’s Rori Harmon selected by Washington Mystics in WNBA draft
04.13.2026 | Women's Basketball
Harmon goes No. 34 to Washington Mystics and is the 14th Texas player drafted into the WNBA.
AUSTIN, Texas — Texas women's basketball's Rori Harmon was selected No. 34 by the Washington Mystics in the 2026 WNBA draft on Monday. Harmon becomes the 14th Texas women's basketball player taken in the WNBA draft.
Harmon ended her career at Texas with 1,616 points, 977 assists, 659 rebounds and 388 steals. Harmon is the only player in NCAA DI women's basketball to reach those numbers in those four categories. Harmon's assists and steals are Texas career records and Harmon broke those records that had stood for 40-plus years. Harmon's 977 assists are 201 more assists than the previous mark of 776 that was set in 1986 by Kamie Ethridge and are 10th on the NCAA DI women's basketball career list. Harmon's 1,616 points rank 17th on the Texas all-time career scoring list.
Harmon started 155 games at Texas, which is a program record. Harmon played 687 more minutes that any other player in Texas women's basketball history in her career. Texas had a record of 136-21 in the 157 games that Rori Harmon played in her career.
Harmon earned selection to the Final 15 of the Wooden Award and was a four-time All-America honorable mention selection. Harmon was a two-time Naismith Defensive Player of the Year semifinalist and the 2023 Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year.
In her time with Texas women's basketball, the program achieved three conference tournament championships and two regular season conference championships. The team advanced to the Elite Eight in four of her five seasons, to two Final Fours and earned three straight No. 1 seeds in the NCAA Tournament. The three-year stretch from the start of the 2023-24 season to the end of the 2025-26 season Texas won more games (103) than any three-year stretch in program history.
"Rori Harmon is simply the best point guard I've ever coached in 41 years in this industry," Texas head coach Vic Schaefer said." "She is generational. They just don't make them like her. There is no other player in the country that defends like Rori Harmon from baseline to baseline and then comes down and runs her team and is responsible for everyone on the offensive end as well. And then you better not take your eye off her because she will make you pay. She is really special. If they hired me tomorrow in the WNBA she would be the first one I would go get because she can run a team. She knows leadership, she knows playbook, she knows players, she knows what we are doing and how we are doing it. She is an extension of me on the floor."
Texas women's basketball in the WNBA Draft
Year Name Round [Overall Pick] Team
1999 Edna Campbell 1st [10] Phoenix Mercury
2000 Edwina Brown $ 1st [3] Detroit Shock
2004 Stacy Stephens # 3rd [37] Houston Comets
2005 Heather Schreiber 3rd [39] Los Angeles Sparks
2005 Jamie Carey * 3rd [31] Phoenix Mercury
2007 Tiffany Jackson 1st [5] New York Liberty
2010 Brittainey Raven 3rd [33] Atlanta Dream
2015 Nneka Enemkpali 3rd [26] Seattle Storm
2016 Imani McGee-Stafford 1st [10] Chicago Sky
2018 Ariel Atkins 1st [7] Washington Mystics
2020 Joyner Holmes 2nd [19] Seattle Storm
2020 Sug Sutton 3rd [36] Washington Mystics
2021 Charli Collier 1st [1] Dallas Wings
2026 Rori Harmon 3rd [34] Washington Mystics
$ - 1st collegian taken in 2000 WNBA Draft
# - later traded to Detroit Shock
* - later signed with Connecticut Sun
25 Texas women's basketball players have played in the WNBA.
