The NCAA Tournament not only provides basketball fans with chills and thrills. March Madness also provides a sneak peek at the stars soon to join the WNBA ranks.

Just Women’s Sports analyst Rachel Galligan projected every first-round pick for the 2023 WNBA Draft in April. Based on her mock draft, here are the four potential lottery picks to watch as the NCAA Tournament gets underway.

Aliyah Boston, F, South Carolina

The consensus No. 1 pick leads the No. 1 overall seed into the tournament with her sights set on a repeat title. Boston and the Gamecocks won the national championship against UConn last year, and the undefeated Gamecocks look even stronger this time around.

While Boston’s stats have not been as strong this season, her 13.3 points and 9.7 rebounds per game are nonetheless impressive — especially when considering the heavy defensive pressure the 6-foot-5 post receives from opponents.

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Diamond Miller, G, Maryland

The second-seeded Terrapins lost four of their starters in the offseason, two to the transfer portal and two to graduation. But you wouldn’t know it to look at them, in large part thanks to the skill and composure of Miller, their lone holdover in the starting lineup.

The 6-3 guard is averaging 19.7 points, 6.5 rebounds, 2.9 assists and 2.1 steals per game for Maryland, the best numbers of her career. After an injury-plagued junior season, she has looked stronger than ever in her senior season.

Rickea Jackson, F, Tennessee

The high-profile transfer had a rocky start to her Tennessee tenure, as she was benched for two games in early December due to a coach’s decision.

Since her return, though, Jackson has flourished for the fourth-seeded Volunteers. The 6-2 forward leads the team with 19.6 points per game, and she is peaking at the right time, with a 26-point double-double to lead Tennessee over LSU in the SEC tournament semifinals.

Haley Jones, G, Stanford

Jones’ value comes in her versatility. The 6-1 guard can score, she can create plays, and she can defend with the best of them. For Stanford this season, she is averaging 13.4 points, 9.1 rebounds and 4.1 assists per game.

The No. 1 seed in the second Seattle region, Cardinal have lost two of their last three games — to Utah in their regular-season finale and to UCLA in the Pac-12 tournament quarterfinals. But with Jones’ steady presence, they still have what it takes to reach the Final Four for a third consecutive season.

Maddy Siegrist is putting the college basketball world on notice heading into Villanova’s weekend clash with conference rival UConn.

The senior forward scored a career-high 50 points in the No. 14 Wildcats’ win last Saturday against Seton Hall. That total also set the high-water mark for the season across women’s and men’s college basketball.

Siegrist followed that up with a 39-point performance Wednesday against St. John’s. has a double-double in each of her last three games, and she has not scored less than 21 points in any game this season.

While the reigning Big East Player of the Year entered the year as the favorite to win the award again, she’s risen to another level as Villanova (23-4) prepares to host No. 6 UConn (23-4) in front of a sellout crowd at 2:30 p.m. ET Saturday.

Not only does Siegrist lead the NCAA with 29.4 points per game, she is outscoring her nearest challenger, Iowa’s Caitlin Clark (27.2), by more than two points per game. She has made 53.8% of her field goal attempts and 41.1% of her 3-point attempts this season.

In her 50-point performance, she broke the Villanova record for points in a single game, and she already broke the program’s career points record, both marks previously held by Shelly Pennefather. While Pennefather became a cloistered nun after her starring for Villanova in the 1980s, Siegrist had the chance to meet her as a freshman and held onto her words of encouragement.

“She said to me, ‘Why don’t you go break every record?'” Siegrist said. “I was almost in shock.”

In her senior season, Siegrist can’t stop breaking records. Also in her 50-point game, she became the all-time leading scorer in the history of Philadelphia women’s Division I college basketball with 2,610 and counting. She set Big East records for points (50) and made field goals (20) in a single game.

“I always wanted to be one of the better players, but I never thought, no, I never could have thought that,” she said. “Not right away at least.”