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UCLA Women's Basketball: Mercury Coach Reflects on Charisma Osborne Falling in Draft

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How her new head coach feels about snagging the four-time All-Pac-12 guard.

Ahead of the 2024 WNBA Draft, former UCLA Bruins All-Pac-12 shooting guard Charisma Osborne was seen as a potential late first round or early second round selection by a variety of pundits and mock drafts.The 5-foot-9 Fontana native survived all the way till the third round this year. She was selected with the No. 25 pick by the Phoenix Mercury , a once-proud club that has fallen on lean times in recent years.

Phoenix head coach Nate Tibbetts conceded that he and his front office didn't expect to be able to draft Osborne with the team's first pick last year, after it offloaded the Nos. 3 and 13 selections to the Chicago Sky in an offseason trade to acquire Copper."Nick and his group, they were ready on draft night," Tibbetts said."They were extremely prepared. They had a draft list that they had.

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