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<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/sports/ncaa/lsu-tigers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LSU women’s basketball</a> star Angel Reese declared for the WNBA Draft on Wednesday, nearly 48 hours after the Tigers were eliminated from the NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament.Reese revealed her decision in an interview and a fashion shoot with Vogue.<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/sports" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM</a>"I’ve done everything I wanted to in college," Reese said. "I’ve won a national championship, I’ve gotten (Southeastern Conference) Player of the Year, I’ve been an All-American. My ultimate goal is to be a pro – and to be one of the greatest basketball players to play, ever. I feel like I'm ready."Reese started her collegiate journey <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/sports/ncaa/maryland-terrapins" target="_blank" rel="noopener">at Maryland</a><a rel="noopener">,</a> where she was named to the All-Big Ten Freshman Team and the Big Ten All-Defense team in her first two seasons with the Terrapins. She averaged 17.8 points and 10.6 rebounds per game in her sophomore year before deciding to transfer to LSU.Reese quickly meshed well in Kim Mulkey’s rotation. She averaged 23 points and 15.4 rebounds per game. She was a unanimous All-America selection and guided LSU to a national championship, winning the Most Outstanding Player award of the tournament.<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/sports/ncaa-womens-basketball-final-four-power-rankings-best-team-left-tournament" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NCAA WOMEN'S BASKETBALL FINAL FOUR POWER RANKINGS: WHO IS THE BEST TEAM LEFT IN THE TOURNAMENT?</a>She was thrust into the spotlight in that national championship. Her trash-talking of Caitlin Clark became one of the highlights of the game. It catapulted her into a newfound fame that helped her land lucrative NIL deals, including with Sports Illustrated."You don't really realize it in the moment," Reese <a href="https://www.vogue.com/article/angel-reese-is-taking-her-talents-to-the-wnba" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">said to Vogue</a> about her viral fame against Iowa last year, "but obviously the things you say and do can change everything. I literally woke up the next day and I was a celebrity."Reese nearly had a repeat of 2023 this season. Despite mysteriously missing a few games for the Tigers, she averaged 18.6 points and 13.4 rebounds and was only three wins away from repeating as national champions.But now, she gets to turn pro and take on a whole new challenge in <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/sports/wnba" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the WNBA</a>.Follow Fox News Digital’s<a href="https://twitter.com/FoxNewsSports_" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> sports coverage on X</a> and subscribe to<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/newsletters" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter</a>.

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content: '<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/sports/ncaa/lsu-tigers" target="_blank"
 rel="noopener">LSU women’s basketball</a> star Angel Reese declared for the WNBA
 Draft on Wednesday, nearly 48 hours after the Tigers were eliminated from the NCAA
 Women’s Basketball Tournament.Reese revealed her decision in an interview
 and a fashion shoot with Vogue.<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/sports" target="_blank"
 rel="noopener">CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM</a>"I’ve
 done everything I wanted to in college," Reese said. "I’ve won a national championship,
 I’ve gotten (Southeastern Conference) Player of the Year, I’ve been an All-American.
 My ultimate goal is to be a pro – and to be one of the greatest basketball players
 to play, ever. I feel like I''m ready."Reese started her collegiate journey
 <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/sports/ncaa/maryland-terrapins" target="_blank"
 rel="noopener">at Maryland</a><a rel="noopener">,</a> where she was named to the
 All-Big Ten Freshman Team and the Big Ten All-Defense team in her first two seasons
 with the Terrapins. She averaged 17.8 points and 10.6 rebounds per game in her sophomore
 year before deciding to transfer to LSU.Reese quickly meshed well in Kim
 Mulkey’s rotation. She averaged 23 points and 15.4 rebounds per game. She was a
 unanimous All-America selection and guided LSU to a national championship, winning
 the Most Outstanding Player award of the tournament.<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/sports/ncaa-womens-basketball-final-four-power-rankings-best-team-left-tournament"
 target="_blank" rel="noopener">NCAA WOMEN''S BASKETBALL FINAL FOUR POWER
 RANKINGS: WHO IS THE BEST TEAM LEFT IN THE TOURNAMENT?</a>She was
 thrust into the spotlight in that national championship. Her trash-talking of Caitlin
 Clark became one of the highlights of the game. It catapulted her into a newfound
 fame that helped her land lucrative NIL deals, including with Sports Illustrated."You
 don''t really realize it in the moment," Reese <a href="https://www.vogue.com/article/angel-reese-is-taking-her-talents-to-the-wnba"
 target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">said to Vogue</a> about her viral fame against
 Iowa last year, "but obviously the things you say and do can change everything.
 I literally woke up the next day and I was a celebrity."Reese nearly had
 a repeat of 2023 this season. Despite mysteriously missing a few games for the Tigers,
 she averaged 18.6 points and 13.4 rebounds and was only three wins away from repeating
 as national champions.But now, she gets to turn pro and take on a whole new
 challenge in <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/sports/wnba" target="_blank"
 rel="noopener">the WNBA</a>.Follow Fox News Digital’s<a
 href="https://twitter.com/FoxNewsSports_" target="_blank" rel="noopener">
 sports coverage on X</a> and subscribe to<a
 href="https://www.foxnews.com/newsletters" target="_blank" rel="noopener">
 the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter</a>.'
summary: LSU women&apos;s basketball star Angel Reese declared for the WNBA Draft
 on Wednesday less than 48 hours after being eliminated from the NCAA Women&apos;s
 Basketball Tournament.
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