Carolyn Peck backs Aneesah Morrow as top WNBA Draft prospect: 'If I'm a GM, I'm taking her'

Through her second season at LSU, Aneesah Morrow is coming into her own as one of the Tigers’ most important players. Especially in the absence of Flau’jae Johnson for the SEC Tournament, she rose to the occasion against Florida – and former WNBA head coach Carolyn Peck had high praise for her.

Peck backed Morrow as a top prospect in the upcoming WNBA Draft. She entered Friday’s game averaging 18.2 points and 14.0 rebounds, and she put together a strong first half against Florida with 16 points and nine boards.

But the intangibles are what stood out to Peck. Speaking on the SEC Network broadcast, she pointed to the energy the former DePaul transfer brings to LSU as a reason she’d pick her if she was a WNBA general manager.

“If I’m a GM, I’m taking her,” Peck said in the second quarter of the SEC tournament quarterfinal. “With the energy, the production that she plays with, she has no fear of anything. And she competes every second she’s on the floor.”

Morrow has recorded double-double after double-double throughout her college career. It began with two years at DePaul in her hometown of Chicago, where she averaged 25.7 points and 12.2 rebounds as a sophomore in 2022-23 before transferring to LSU.

Morrow rose to stardom at Chicago’s Simeon Career Academy, which produced stars such as Derrick Rose, Jabari Parker and Talen Horton-Tucker. In the school, there’s a wall filled with professional athletes, and Morrow made it a goal to be up there.

When speaking with Peck about that goal, Morrow mentioned she was the “only” female athlete on there. Peck quickly corrected her and said she’s charting her own path for other young athletes to follow.

“Aneesah is a player that has goals, and one of her goals when she was in high school was to make ‘the wall,'” Peck said. “The pros are on the wall in Simeon High School, and now, Aneesah Morrow’s picture is up there. She’s the only female.

“And I corrected her, I said, ‘You’re the only? Look at it as the first,’ because she is really paving the way for the future to come behind her. And that is something that is very important to her.”

In ESPN’s latest WNBA mock draft last month, Michael Voepel projected Morrow to go No. 6 overall to the Washington Mystics. He said she could follow a similar path to former teammate Angel Reese, who went No. 7 overall last year and became a centerpiece of the Chicago Sky’s rebuild.