AUBURN, Ala. – Auburn graduate student DeYona Gaston has been named to the 2025 Women’s College All-Star Game Watch List presented by Herbalife, it was announced Tuesday.
The 2025 Women’s College All-Star Game will feature the top senior standouts who are on the precipice of hearing their names called in the WNBA Draft. Of the more than 60 players that appear on the watch list, 20 will ultimately be selected to participate in the event, which will be televised by ESPN2 at 3 p.m. ET on April 5.
Gaston is averaging 22.0 points per game, which ranks third in the SEC and eighth nationally. She has 11 games this year with 20-plus points and four games this year with 30-plus, including 31 in the Tigers’ last game at No. 2 South Carolina on Sunday. The 6-2 forward from Houston set a Neville Arena record for an Auburn player with 36 points in the win over Virginia-Lynchburg Nov. 8, then nearly matched that with 35 points vs. Alabama State.
Gaston has five double-doubles so far this season, including a 29-point, 12-rebound performance vs. Norfolk State on Dec. 29. For her efforts against UL-Lafayette (29 points) and Alabama State (35 points), she was named SEC Player of the Week Dec. 23.
The complete watch list can be found on the event’s website at www.womenscollegeallstar.com. The final event roster will be announced the week of the event. Participants in the Women’s College All-Star Game will be players that have exhausted or will for forego their remaining eligibility.
Last April, 20 of college basketball’s top senior standouts – including Auburn’s Honesty Scott-Grayson – converged in Cleveland to rekindle the postseason event that Intersport helped originally launch in 1998. There, five All-Americans, more than a dozen All-Conference standouts and four future WNBA draft picks competed in front of nearly 5,000 fans on the eve of the sport’s national championship game.