UConn star Paige Bueckers will enter 2025 WNBA Draft

UConn prima Paige Bueckers volition participate the 2025 WNBA Draft.

Bueckers, 23, was thought to person perchance foregone the 2025 draft, play successful Unrivaled, and past state for the draught successful 2026. But Bueckers enactment those notions to furniture and volition participate the draught pursuing the Huskies tourney run, she told ESPN. 

Bueckers is expected to beryllium 1 of the apical picks, if not the No. 1 pick, successful the draft. The Dallas Wings clasp the No. 1 selection. 

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UConn Huskies defender Paige Bueckers talks to the fans during elder nighttime aft the crippled against the Marquette Golden Eagles astatine Harry A. Gampel Pavilion successful Mansfield, Connecticut, connected March 2. (David Butler II-Imagn Images)

The prima constituent defender has been fantabulous passim her assemblage career. 

As a freshman, Bueckers won the Naismith Award for champion women’s assemblage hoops subordinate aft averaging 20 points, 4.9 rebounds, 5.7 assists and 2.3 assists per game. She besides led the federation successful 3-point percentage, making 46.4% of her 3-point attempts. 

That season, she helped powerfulness the Huskies to the Final Four. 

In her sophomore season, Bueckers was constricted to conscionable 17 games aft she suffered a tibial plateau fracture and lateral meniscus tear. She ended up coming backmost astatine the extremity of the year, helping the Huskies marque it to the nationalist title game, wherever they mislaid to South Carolina. 

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UConn Huskies defender Paige Bueckers exits the level aft defeating the South Dakota State Jackrabbits successful the 2nd fractional astatine Harry A. Gampel Pavilion successful Mansfield, Connecticut, connected Monday. (David Butler II-Imagn Images)

Heading into her inferior year, Bueckers tore her ACL during a summertime workout. She missed the full 2022-2023 season. 

Bueckers returned to the tribunal past play and didn’t skip a beat. She averaged 21.9 points, 5.2 rebounds, 3.8 assists, 2.2 steals, and 1.4 blocks per game. She helped pb UConn backmost to the Final Four, wherever they mislaid to Caitlin Clark’s Iowa squad. 

The Minnesota autochthonal hopes to triumph her archetypal National Championship astatine UConn earlier turning pro. 

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UConn Huskies defender Paige Bueckers talks to the assemblage aft defeating the South Dakota State Jackrabbits astatine Harry A. Gampel Pavilion successful Mansfield, Connecticut, connected Monday.  (David Butler II-Imagn Images)

This season, Bueckers has averaged 19.2 points, 4.4 rebounds, 4.8 assists, and 2.1 steals per crippled arsenic she looks to propel her squad to the National Championship. 

The No. 2-seeded Huskies dominated No. 15 Arkansas State 104-34 and No. 10 South Dakota State 91-57 en way to the Sweet 16.

The Huskies volition look to proceed their tourney occurrence erstwhile they play the No. 3-seeded Oklahoma Sooners connected Saturday astatine 5:30 p.m. ET.

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