The confetti hardly stopped falling at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse in Cleveland, Ohio, before some fans turned their focus to the 2024 WNBA draft.

The women's basketball calendar means there's little turnaround time between the end of the college basketball season and the start of the WNBA campaign. Eight days after they faced off in the national championship, Iowa's Caitlin Clark and South Carolina's Kamilla Cardoso are poised to be lottery picks.

The draft is scheduled for Monday at 7:30 p.m. ET, with coverage on ESPN and the ESPN app. The event runs for three rounds with 36 total picks.

The atmosphere for the 2024 draft will be a little different compared to years past with the league welcoming fans to the Brooklyn Academy of Music. You can bet plenty of Indiana Fever followers will make the trip to New York City to see the moment when Clark officially joins the franchise.

2024 Mock Draft: 1st Round

1. Indiana Fever: Caitlin Clark, G, Iowa

2. Los Angeles Sparks: Cameron Brink, F, Stanford

3. Chicago Sky (via Phoenix): Rickea Jackson, F, Tennessee

4. Los Angeles Sparks (via Seattle): Kamilla Cardoso, C, South Carolina

5. Dallas Wings (via Chicago): Jacy Sheldon, G, Ohio State

6. Washington Mystics: Aaliyah Edwards, F, UConn

7. Minnesota Lynx: Nyadiew Puoch, F, Australia

8. Chicago Sky (via Atlanta, Los Angeles): Leïla Lacan, G, France

9. Dallas Wings: Isobel Borlase, G, Australia

10. Connecticut Sun: Angel Reese, F, LSU

11. New York Liberty: Alissa Pili, F, Utah

12. Atlanta Dream (via Las Vegas, Los Angeles): Charisma Osborne, G, UCLA

Where Does Angel Reese Land?

Angel Reese was one of the biggest stars in college basketball over the past two years. A national champion and SEC Player of the Year, she averaged 20.9 points and 14.4 rebounds at LSU.

The 6'3" forward has the accolades and achievements you'd come to expect of a lottery pick, and that's probably where she landed in mock drafts immediately after the 2022-23 season ended. As 2023-24 unfolded, her draft stock didn't necessarily fall so much as it stabilized to where it probably would've been before the 2023 NCAA tournament.

Reese's shooting, or lack thereof, continued to be a glaring weakness in her game. Across four years in college, she went 5-of-32 on three-pointers and was a career 70.4 percent free-throw shooter. Her field-goal percentage also fell to 47.1 percent as a senior, down from 52.5 percent as a junior.

A power forward who can't space the floor is becoming less useful in WNBA, and Reese doesn't have the size to line up at center.

"I'd like to see her evolve her game outside of 10 feet," one WNBA talent evaluator said to ESPN.com's Katie Barnes. "If she's going to play the four at the pro level, I think she's got to work on her free throws and her outside shot."

It will be fascinating to see where Reese ultimately goes. It's not hard to buy into the idea she can be a productive starter for a long time, but WNBA front offices could have much deeper reservations about how much her skill set and gaudy numbers are translatable.

Who's the 2nd Guard off the Board?

With Paige Bueckers deciding to stay at UConn, there's a wide gulf between Clark and the next best guard in the class. The backcourt got even thinner once Georgia Amoore entered the transfer portal and committed to Kentucky instead of declaring for the draft.

After Clark, Ohio State's Jacy Sheldon could be the second guard taken. She averaged 17.9 points, 3.8 assists and 1.9 steals while shooting 37.5 percent from beyond the arc as a fifth-year senior.

Sheldon is a good three-and-D combo guard who'd fit on just about any team in the WNBA, but it's not a foregone conclusion she'll follow her Big Ten rival among the backcourt prospects.

Charisma Osborne is another seasoned pair of hands after spending five years at UCLA. In her final year, she ranked in the 97th percentile in assist-to-turnover ratio (2.09), per Her Hoop Stats, and was a Pac-12 All-Defensive honoree for the second time.

If teams want to take a longer view, Australia's Isobel Borlase and France's Leïla Lacan will be options. Both 19, they've been plying their trade overseas.

Borlase has averaged 15.6 points on 41.7 percent shooting and 2.5 assists in 20 games with the WNBL's Adelaide Lightning. In 18 appearances with Angers in the LFB, Lacan has put up 12.7 points, 3.0 assists and 3.2 steals per contest.

Who Makes the Biggest Jump Up Draft Boards?

One consequence of there being so little time between the end of the college season and the draft is that it's even harder to understand how prospects are viewed within WNBA front offices.

For example, nobody had the Indiana Fever taking Lexie Hull with the No. 6 pick in 2022. ESPN's Michael Voepel had her going 21st overall in his final mock.

Abby Meyers was one of the bigger surprises in 2023 after the Dallas Wings selected her at No. 11. At the opposite end, Jordan Horston was thought be a lottery pick by many and slipped to the Seattle Storm at No. 9.

Surely there's somebody on Monday night who far exceeds their draft projection and winds up in the middle or latter stage of the first round.

Like Hull was coming out of Stanford, Ohio State's Celeste Taylor is an experienced guard who should have a high floor in the WNBA. The ACC Defensive Player of the Year at Duke for 2022-23, she transferred to Ohio State for 2023-24 and was voted by the coaches as the Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year.

Colorado guard Jaylyn Sherrod fits a similar mold. She was a three-time All-Defensive honoree in the Pac-12 and averaged two steals per game over her five seasons. She's a solid playmaker (4.6 assists to 2.7 turnovers) but a limited scorer. Still, her skill set suits any setting, which could come in handy for a team with multiple first-rounders or few holes to immediately fill in the roster.