More than a dozen cities are being considered for the WNBA's next expansion franchise, which is expected to begin playing by 2028.

Former Texas Longhorns forward Fran Harris, who led the women's basketball team to its first and only national championship in 1986, is gunning for Austin to be a future WNBA expansion site.Why it matters: Austin has long been a college football town,

“All the owners were men then. And I said I’m going to be the first woman owner of a WNBA team.” She didn’t follow up on the idea until early 2020, when she began to get more serious. Cathy Engelbert, the WNBA commissioner, saw Harris pitching her ...

Former NCAA champ and UT Longhorn standout Fran Harris is raising capital and working on Austin's submission packet to bring the 16th team to the capital city, with the WNBA's commissioner expressing confidence that the sport will expand to 16 teams by 2028.