LSU women's basketball star Angel Reese declares for the 2024 WNBA Draft

LSU women's basketball star Angel Reese has declared for the WNBA Draft, Reese shared via social media accounts and to Vogue Magazine.

After helping lead the Tigers to their first NCAA championship last season, Reese will go down as one of the best to play for LSU women's basketball. The 6-3 star forward did have one more year of eligibility remaining, the COVID year, but Reese has opted to move on to the WNBA.

"I done everything I wanted to do in college," Reese told Vogue. "I've won a national championship, I've gotten SEC Player of the Year, I've been an All-American. My ultimate goal is to be a pro — and to be one of the greatest basketball players to play, ever. I feel like I'm ready."

The WNBA Draft is set for Monday, April 15 to be held inside the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York City and will be televised on ESPN at 6 p.m.

Since helping lead LSU to its first national title to cap her junior season in 2022-23, Reese has been projected as a consensus first-round WNBA Draft pick, predicting to go as high as fourth to as low as eighth overall.

But even coming into the 2023-24 campaign, there were skeptics of Reese's game and how it would translate to the pros. Kim Mulkey said Resee was motivated coming into this season by her doubters and she put together another All-American level season to help guide LSU back to the Elite 8.

Reese has become one of the most recognizable sports figures — man or woman — the last two years and her personal brand has shot through the roof due to her on-court success. She's made waves in pop culture and the sports world, elevating the growth of women's basketball with her personality all the while gracing the cover of magazines, guest appearing in a music video with rappers Latto and Cardi B and advocating for trash talking in the women's game.

LSU fans coined her the "Bayou Barbie" and Reese ran with it, starting up a clothing line and merchandise with her moniker.

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Under Kim Mulkey the last two seasons with LSU, Reese piled up 61 double-doubles, the second most in program history behind other LSU great Sylvia Fowles (86). Reese has been an All-American each of the last two years and led the Southeastern Conference in scoring and rebounding two consecutive seasons, the first person to do so since Vanderbilt's Wendy Scholtens in 1989 and 1990.

Reese paced the Tigers during her senior season with 18.6 points and 13.4 rebounds as the team advanced to the Elite 8 for the second straight season.

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Cory Diaz covers the LSU Tigers for The Daily Advertiser as part of the USA TODAY Network. Follow his Tigers coverage on Twitter: @ByCoryDiaz. Got questions regarding LSU athletics? Send them to Cory Diaz atbdiaz@gannett.com.