UConn's Paige Bueckers, USC's JuJu Watkins and Notre Dame's Hannah Hidalgo headline the top 15 women's players on the ballot for the John R. Wooden Award.
This year's edition may represent the last opportunity for Paige Bueckers to win a national championship at UConn before she heads to the WNBA. The Huskies, ranked No. 3 in the country, head into the Big East women's basketball tournament on Saturday as the league's No.
Paige Bueckers has been looking up ... Along the way, she has faced comparisons, to other great UConn players, to Caitlin Clark at Iowa, now to other, younger stars in the college game. She’ll face more scrutiny in the WNBA, which will come with being ...
With elite skills, massive NIL deals, and an army of TikTok stans, UConn’s Paige Bueckers embodies the excitement — and the unprecedented power — of the new era of women’s basketball.
Despite a roster plagued by injuries, Bueckers, along with Nika Muhl and Aaliyah Edwards, led the Huskies to the Final Four, where they ultimately lost to Caitlin Clark-led Iowa. This season, UConn is predicted to make it to the championship, with much of their success dependent on their star guards.