Secaucus, NJ (My Sportsbook) - The Charlotte Sting selected University of Minnesota center Janel McCarville with the top pick in the 2005 WNBA Draft on Saturday.

McCarville averaged 16.0 points-per-game for the Gophers last season, as well as 10.6 rebounds and was the only Minnesota player to compete in four NCAA Championships. She was also one of five national finalists for the John R. Wooden Award.

The 6-foot-2 Wisconsin native finished her Minnesota career as the only Golden Gopher to be listed among the top five in the major career statistical categories of points, rebounds, assists, blocks and steals. She scored 1,835 career points to finish fifth in school history. Her 1,217 career rebounds is second in both Minnesota and Big Ten history.

With the second overall pick, Indiana took Mississippi State guard Tan White. The Lady Bulldog garnered All-Amercia honors last season, netted a team-high 23.5 points-per-game, while dishing out 7.7 assists per contest.

The 2005 Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award recipient ended her stellar career with 2,421 career points, becoming just the second Lady Bulldog to reach the 2,000-point plateau. White, who owns five career MSU career categories, is the SEC's all-time career steals leader.

Phoenix, which owned the third pick, selected center Sandora Irvin out of TCU. Irvin finished the 2004-05 season averaging 19.9 points-per-game to go along with 11.8 rebounds. She ranked 13th in the nation in scoring, second in rebounding and third in blocked shots (4.5). Her 150 blocks fell two shy of tying the NCAA's single-season record

Irvin, the niece of former Dallas Cowboys star wide receiver Michael Irvin, owns 10 of TCU's 19 career records including scoring average (14.9) and an NCAA record with 480 career blocks.

San Antonio grabbed Kansas State forward Kendra Wecker with the fourth pick. Wecker, who netted a Big-12 Conference-leading 21.0 points-per-game with 10.1 rebounds for the Wildcats, finished her career as the conference's all-time leading scorer (2,333) and school's all-time leading rebounder (1,087). Her school-record 52 career double-doubles ranks second all-time in the league record books.

Sancho Lyttle, a center out of Houston won't have to go far as she was picked by her hometown Comets with the fifth pick. Lyttle finished the 2004-05 season leading the nation in rebounds with 12.1 boards per-game. She also averaged 18.8 points-per game to go along with 1.5 assists and 3.1 steals. She was 26th in the nation in scoring, and tied for 19th in steals for the Lady Cougars.

Temeka Johnson, a feisty guard out of LSU, was picked sixth by Washington, while the Detroit Shock snagged Kara Braxton, a center out of Georgia with the seventh pick. The Connecticut Sun followed up with a center of its own, selecting Liberty's Katie Feenstra with the eighth pick.

Michigan State guard Kristen Haynie went to Sacramento with the ninth pick, while the New York Liberty nabbed Tennessee guard Loree Moore. Kristen Mann, a forward out of USCB, was then chosen by the Minnesota Lynx. Seattle elected to go with a guard in the form of Penn State's Tanisha Wright with the 12th pick, while the Shock rounded out the first round by selecting Oklahoma guard Dionnah Jackson.

The 2005 WNBA season is slated to tip-off Saturday, May 21.