STORRS, CONN. — UConn senior Breanna Stewart is in the midst of an undefeated season and a run at an unprecedented fourth straight NCAA title, but for three days, her attention has shifted

Fifteen of the world’s best women’s basketball players have joined Stewart in Storrs for USA Basketball’s final training camp before this summer’s Olympics in Rio. And on the day the WNBA announced the date of the 2016 Draft — April 14 — the 21-year-old couldn’t help but let her mind wander.

“When you have training camp like this, being around [the WNBA stars], it makes you look ahead to what’s to come,” Stewart said.

What’s to come, if you ask almost any prognosticator, is that a little over two months from now, the Seattle Storm will select Stewart with the No. 1 pick in the Draft. She won’t have to travel far that day, either; the Draft will be held at Mohegan Sun Arena, home of the Connecticut Sun, located less than 30 miles from her current campus.

Yes, it often seems like the women’s basketball world revolves around this state, and the Huskies in particular. Before joining Team USA on Sunday, Stewart led UConn to its 63rd straight victory — the third longest winning streak in history behind UConn (2003) … and UConn  (2010). She is well on her way to a third straight Naismith College Player of the Year Award.

At just 21, Stewart is the youngest of the group and the only player still in college — but you wouldn’t know that from watching practice here. Vets and up-and-comers alike have already taken to her game and her personality; she’s affectionately known as “Stewie” on the National Team.

“Stewie is absolutely hilarious,” said reigning WNBA MVP Elena Delle Donne. “She’s such a funny person and just gets along with everyone so well. It doesn’t really feel like she’s in college.”

“She fits right in, she fits right in, she fits right in,” echoed Phoenix Mercury star Diana Taurasi, a member of that ’03 Huskies squad. “The thing I love about Stewie is she loves basketball. That’s what she loves to do more than anything else. I think that’s gotten lost a little bit in basketball these days. Everyone wants the lights, but no one wants to put in the hard work. She’s the opposite. She could care less about all this. She wants to be the best basketball player in the world, and I have the utmost respect for that.”

Stars like Taurasi, Delle Donne and another Huskie great, reigning Minnesota Lynx champ Maya Moore, have now seen Stewart’s game grow year after year as they reacquaint themselves with her at USAB camps.

Ask them, and she has all the tools to be the next WNBA star to come out of Connecticut.

“I’m excited to see where her game continues to go — in her own way,” Moore said. “How she moves on the court is something that you master when you come to Connecticut and you know how to play the game. Her basketball instincts, which some people might not recognize, will always set her apart.”

Star-Studded Cast

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Nine of the 25 finalists for the 12-player Olympic roster are absent from this week’s camp, either playing overseas or recovering from injury. Yet head coach Geno Auriemma still has more talent at his disposal than any coach in the world.

Taurasi shook her head when thinking about the weapons on the floor: “Delle Donne. Tina [Charles]. BG [Brittney Griner], Nneka [Ogwumike]. I mean, Catch [Tamika Catchings]. You always know strength in numbers is what we go on.”

Strength in numbers has translated to sheer dominance for Team USA in international competition. Since the inception of the USA Basketball Women’s National Team program in 1995, USA owns an 86-1 record. The team has won five straight gold medals and is riding a 41-game winning streak (it hasn’t lost since 1992).

Taurasi, Seattle Storm guard Sue Bird and Indiana Fever forward Tamika Catchings form the group’s leadership trio, having been a part of the last three gold medal teams.

“It’s pretty remarkable to think about this [being] their fourth time — that’s 16 years,” Auriemma said. “That’s a long time to still be relevant and to still be in the mix, and not just relevant and in the mix, but be the team leaders. That’s saying a lot.”

The Roster

Below is a list of the 16 players participating in this week’s training camp. (Tina Charles, Candice Dupree, Sylvia Fowles, Briann January, Jantel Lavender and Candace Parker are competing overseas. Skylar Diggins, Chiney Ogwumike and Odyssey Sims are rehabbing from injury.)