Final Four, Paige Bueckers and UConn
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The Final Four for the 2025 Women's NCAA Tournament is set. No. 1 overall seed UCLA is in, along with fellow No. 1 seeds South Carolina and Texas, and the final spot is occupied b
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USC won its most recent game 67-61 against Kansas State on Saturday.
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UConn's Kaitlyn Chen drives toward the rack and drops in a slick and-1 in the second quarter.
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Paige Bueckers may be considered one of, if not the best, player in college basketball. Even though the UConn Huskies star is headed to the 2025 Final Four, it doesn't mean she's had an easy road to get there.
UConn coach Geno Auriemma caused a minor stir during last year’s NCAA Tournament when he proclaimed that his star guard, Paige Bueckers, was the best player in the country.
Bueckers got back plenty in that game for herself and her teammates, smoothed over the rough patches and was the player who, whenever Auriemma was too deep into the team’s mistakes, could draw him back.
Former NBA player Etan Thomas wrote a column suggesting there was a race factor into why Paige Bueckers' popularity has yet to reach Caitlin Clark heights.
Coming into the game against USC, Bueckers had recorded 413 total NCAA Tournament points through her four-year playing career at UConn, good for the eighth most of all-time. With