A total of four SEC women's basketball players were taken in the 2016 WNBA draft, as the world's top female basketball prospects were selected live on prime time television for the fourth time in the league's 20-year history. The draft consisted of three rounds of 12 picks each.
The Indiana Fever took South Carolina's Tiffany Mitchell as the ninth pick in the first round for the first Southeastern Conference player of the draft. The SEC has had a first round pick every year except 2014.
The second round saw Courtney Walker (Texas A&M) going to the Atlanta Dream as the fourth pick of that round, while Tennessee's Bashaara Graves was drafted by the Minnesota Lynx as the tenth pick.