South Carolina women's basketball: Victaria Saxton selected by Indiana

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Victaria Saxton was selected by the Indiana Fever with the 25th pick in the WNBA Draft.

Saxton becomes the 18th Gamecock selected in the WNBA Draft and the 14th of the Dawn Staley era. She is the fifth Gamecock drafted Monday, following Aliyah Boston (first), Laeticia Amihere (eighth), Zia Cooke (10th), and Brea Beal (24th).

Saxton played five seasons for the Gamecocks and is the career leader in games played. Dawn Staley often described her as low-maintenance and high-production.

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Saxton helped lead the Gamecocks to the consensus #1 ranking before the 2020 NCAA Tournament was canceled. She led the Gamecocks to three Final Fours and the wire-to-wire national championship in 2022. 

Indiana has been a perennial cellar-dweller over the past seven seasons, finishing with the league’s worst record three times during that span.

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Saxton joins former Gamecocks Destanni Henderson and Aliyah Boston in Indiana, although third-round picks don’t often make final rosters.

The WNBA preseason starts on May 5, and the regular season starts on May 19. Indiana’s first game is on May 19 against Connecticut.

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