LEXINGTON, Ky. \u2013 University of Kentucky women\u2019s basketball alumna and Atlanta Dream All-Star Rhyne Howard has been named to the WNBA All-Defensive Second Team, it was announced by the league office Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The Wildcat led her team and ranked 10th in the league in steals (1.6) last season, logging 16 games with multiple steals in 2025.<\/p>\n
Howard also ranked third on her team \u2013 and first among guards \u2013 in blocked shots (0.8). She had a career-high six blocks against the Dallas Wings on Aug. 29, while also draining six 3s, recording five assists and grabbing four rebounds in that game. She became the first player in WNBA history to have six 3s and six blocks in a single game.<\/p>\n
The three-time All-Star and Olympic medalist anchored a Dream team that ranked second in the WNBA in defensive rating in 2025.<\/p>\n
Overall on the season, she averaged 17.5 points per game, 3.1 3s per game, 4.5 rebounds per game, 4.6 assists per game and 1.6 steals per game.<\/p>\n
Howard is the Dream\u2019s first WNBA All-Defensive Team selection since 2020.<\/p>\n
For more information on the Kentucky women\u2019s basketball team, visit UKathletics.com or follow @KentuckyWBB on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEXINGTON, Ky. \u2013 University of Kentucky women\u2019s basketball alumna and Atlanta Dream All-Star Rhyne Howard has been named…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":287388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[1322,51,62,67,132,68,232,54774],"class_list":{"0":"post-287387","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-featured","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us","14":"tag-wnba","15":"tag-women-s-basketball"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115340409898919605","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}