The WNBA 2025 draft started how everyone expected it, while Uconn Huskies Star, Paige Bueckers, was selected first in the general classification by Dallas Wings on Monday evening.
Last year, it was Caitlin Clark who came out of Iowa as a selection of consensus, and Indiana fever did it when they called him. Clark won the WNBA 2024 recruit of the year, breaking records along the way.
Bueckers has had a potential for choice n ° 1 since it entered Uconn. The indicator material materialized, freshly out of a national title with his sisters on the ground, was “crushing” for the New Star of the Wings.
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Paige Bueckers embraces the WNBA commissioner, Cathy Engelbert, after being selected with the first overall choice of Dallas wings in the recovery of the WNBA 2025 at the hangar at Hudson Yards. (Images of Vincent Carchietta-Imagn)
“Just a feeling of overwhelming gratitude. It’s super surreal to be here with other project guests,” said Bueckers after hearing his name called.
Bueckers becoming a national champion with the Huskies put a cherry on a brilliant career for the native of Hopkins, Minnesota.
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Its senior season has seen 19.9 points, 4.6 assists and 4.4 rebounds on average per game, while firing 53.4% on the field and 41.9% deeply. Bueckers’ ability to mark anywhere on the ground, and that the offensive of Geno Auriemma which was crossing it was fully exposed throughout the year, including the NCAA tournament.
Bueckers won its fourth consecutive team from the NCAA tournament team for its performances when it mattered the most.
The guard of Uconn Paige Bueckers (5) seeks to shoot against the UCLA during the first half of a national match in the semi-final in the NCAA College female tournament on Friday April 4, 2025 in Tampa, Florida. (AP photo / John Raoux)
She was unable to get a place in the national championship match, however, during her junior season, falling to Clark and Iowa Hawkeyes that year.
But the Huskies billed all the way to win it on the South Carolina dominantly earlier this month. Bueckers has been appointed AP AP ALL-AMERICAN for the third time in his illustrious university career.
In the direction of the WNBA, the expectations of the Bueckers are through the roof, joining a team in Dallas which is led by All-Star Arike Ogunbowale, which could use another dynamic guard to work.
Paige Bueckers poses with the WNBA commissioner, Cathy Engelbert, after being selected with the first overall choice of the Dallas wings during the recovery of the WNBA 2025 at the hangar at Hudson Yards. (Images of Vincent Carchietta-Imagn)
During his four years in Uconn, Bueckers collected an average of 19.8 points, 4.6 assists and 4.7 rebounds and pulled 53.1% on the field in 123 career games.
