Duquesne’s Megan McConnell Earns WNBA Opportunity

Duquesne guard Megan McConnell went undrafted in Monday night’s WNBA draft. However, McConnell quickly found a destination to begin her professional basketball career.

McConnell accepted a WNBA Training Camp invitation from the WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury. According to Duquesne, she will report to Training Camp on April 27.

“Honestly, I couldn’t believe it when I got that call from my agent,” McConnell said in a press release from Duquesne. “He said that Phoenix was excited about me and that they wanted to offer me to a training camp, and I accepted it. And I just couldn’t be happier. I just can’t wait to go there and prove myself that I belong there. To be here at the Cooper Fieldhouse with my coaches and my teammates, I wouldn’t want it any other way, and that’s why I asked them to be by my side tonight. They’ve been there for me through the good and the bad, and just to have that support means the world to me.”

Check out the moment that McConnell shared the news with her teammates and coaching staff at Duquesne on Monday night.

She is taking her talents to Phoenix!

Megan McConnell signs free agent contract with @PhoenixMercury @WNBA @DuqWBB @CVColtsAD

Courtesy: Duquesne Athletics pic.twitter.com/7Shjj8E3MI

— Andrew Stockey (@astockeyWTAE) April 15, 2025

McConnell recently played in the Lilly Women’s College Basketball All-Star Game in front of fans, WNBA personnel, and a strong support system that included the Dukes’ WBB staff.

“I think that was a very well planned and executed event with a lot of talent,” Duquesne head coach Dan Burt stated in a phone interview with PSN’s Zac Weiss. “Meg played very well in that event and she played the way that she played at Duquesne. She picked up her opponent full court and pressed them the entire length of the floor. She made us very proud. I think we saw that we probably had the biggest amount of fan base for any one player there with our entire coaching staff, our families, Meg’s family and several of our players making the trip down to watch the event. There’s no delineation in the line between A4 and talent that is not at the A4 level when you have ability like Meg does. We already knew she would compete at a high level and have success. We went down just to enjoy it more than anything.”

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McConnell also caught up with Weiss about her time spent playing for the Dukes for the past five seasons.

“I have so much gratitude towards Duquesne and the people in this program,” she said. “I’m sure if it wasn’t for the people I wouldn’t have stayed all five years. Because this program is surrounded by great people and my teammates were great, I have nothing but gratitude. Being able to spend five years here and building the relationships I built, I’m so fortunate because I know there’s such a rare amount of people that can say they had what I had. With the transfer portal and NIL, none of that stuff mattered to me because I’m right where I belong with the people in my life that will be in my circle for the rest of my life.”