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2025 women's March Madness coaches who played in WNBA, from Dawn Staley to Kara Lawson

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Dawn Staley is the head coach of South Carolina women's basketball.

She parlayed her collegiate success into a lengthy WNBA career and three Olympic gold medals with the U.S. women's team.

From Staley to Duke 's Kara Lawson , here's a list of former WNBA players coaching in the 2025 NCAA Tournament.

Wyckoff hit a 3 -pointer with two seconds left in Game 2 of the 2005 WNBA Finals between the Sun and the Monarchs to send the game to overtime.

The Sun went on to win the game, but lost the championship series, 3-1 .

She retired in 2009 after tearing her ACL and went into coaching.

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