EAST LANSING -- The next chapter in Allyssa DeHaan's basketball career could take shape Thursday.
That's when the WNBA 2010 draft will take place.
The 6-foot-9 center from Michigan State, who was the Big Ten Conference's Defensive Player of the Year this season, is projected in the latest WNBA mock draft to be the 31st player selected overall. The WNBA draft consists of three rounds with a total of 36 selected.
However, DeHaan, who is from Grandville, is said to be up in the air about her future.
She isn't taking her name out of the draft, but there's a chance, if selected, she might forgo playing this season to finish her degree at MSU and look to next season to play in the WNBA, or possibly overseas.
She is a human biology major who plans to become a doctor and will graduate -- if she stays in school -- in December.
"DeHaan told me she will probably decide in the next couple of weeks about her basketball career," said Jim Donatelli, MSU's sports information director for women's basketball.
He spoke with DeHaan on Monday. DeHaan did not return phone messages from The Press regarding her future.
The list of goals DeHaan failed to accomplish in her storied MSU career is short.
Despite not winning Big Ten and NCAA titles, DeHaan rewrote the record book at MSU and in the Big Ten Conference with her 503 career blocks. That is second nationally in Division I to Saint Mary's (California) junior Louella Tomlinson, who has 512.
DeHaan was the first Spartan to be named Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year, was the fastest Big Ten player to 300 blocks (72 games), scored more than 1,600 points and was selected as the Big Ten Freshman of the Year in 2006-2007.
"I'll look back at some point and realize the last four years were pretty great in my life," DeHaan said last month after the Spartans were eliminated by Kentucky in the second round of the NCAA tournament.
At the beginning of this season, DeHaan was excited about the opportunity to play professionally in the WNBA or overseas.
"I've put myself in a great position the last few years with my pre-med route and playing basketball, I don't want to have any regrets and I really want to give it (playing professionally) a try," DeHaan said then. "Long-term, my goal is to be a doctor, and that could happen 10 to 15 years from now."