Considering that it was a foregone conclusion that Maya Moore and Elizabeth Cambage would be taken with the first two picks in the WNBA draft on Monday, there were still some surprises.

The Connecticut Sun was among the teams with a surprising pick with the selection of Texas A&M point guard Sydney Colson with the 16th overall selection. As it turned out, the pick was being made so the Sun could add another former UConn player to the equation. Kalana Greene, who the Sun was considering taking with its second-round pick in the 2010 draft only to see her plucked by New York before Connecticut got to pick, was traded from New York to Connecticut for the rights to Colson.

New York was involved in the most surprising pick of the first round as the Liberty took Alex Montgomery of Georgia Tech with the 10th overall selection.

Despite ESPN commentator Carolyn Peck's baffling declaration that the Sun (one of two teams without a first-round pick) and Minnesota (with the first and fourth picks) would be the teams which would benefit the most from the draft, you would have to consider Connecticut's moves to be little more than minor alterations to a non-playoff team.

The good news for the Sun is that the two teams which seemed to make the biggest splashes both happen to be in the Western Conference.

Minnesota's addition of Moore and Amber Harris of Xavier (taken with the pick acquired from Connecticut in last year's Kelsey Griffin trade) should make Minnesota a possible championship contender.

Tulsa added Cambage, Stanford's Kayla Pedersen as well as North Carolina guard Italee Lucas (who I thought would be a great fit in Connecticut).

I was a little surprised that Northwestern's Amy Jaeschke slid into the third round and that Dawn Evans was among those players not drafted at all.

Of course, the pick of Moore at the top of the draft was a no-brainer.

Moore was asked if she was guaranteeing a championship in her rookie year.

"Guarantee. If we don't get a playoff berth ...," Moore said. "Every year the goal is a championship. That is what I expect. I go into every team I play for expecting to win a championship especially with the amount of talent and experience we have on the team. I don't want to limit it to the playoffs, I want a championship."