Columbia's Lomax Signs WNBA Contract, Is Markley Next?

If Jeremy Lin doesn’t get to play professional basketball, maybe Harvard fans won’t have to wait as long as they thought for the next Crimson baller to make it to the pros.

Considering that Columbia’s Judie Lomax just signed with the WNBA’s Connecticut Sun, it doesn’t seem too far of a stretch that Harvard junior Emma Markley, who twice thwarted Lomax in the Crimson’s two wins over the Lions this season, will have a chance at the pros before it's all said and done.

Lomax sits second in the all-time rebounding category and tenth in all-time scoring after only two seasons of playing for Columbia. The forward also set the Lions’ single game rebounding record when she put up 27 against Brown on March 6. Clearly a talented player.

But Markley had her number this season as the junior put up more rebounds and blocks than Lomax in both contests. In the second meeting between the two, Markley blocked a Lomax shot that would have sent the game into overtime in a 69-67 win on February 20 in New York.

While some are overjoyed to see Lomax—who has one semester of eligibility left—heading to the WNBA because it means that they won’t have to play against the 2010 Ivy League Player of the Year anymore, Markley might be happy to see the Columbia forward headed out for a different reason.

She could be next.