UConn's Paige Bueckers predicted to join four-time All-Star in WNBA mock draft

"With the first pick in the draft, Dallas has the right to select Paige Bueckers," Hendricks wrote on March 28. "She’s shown in the NCAA tournament that she is the kind of player teammates can count on. She scored 34 points in UConn's second-round win over South Dakota State, and even paid for the tickets for 1,500 students to attend her final game in Storrs."

"The Wings, meanwhile, struggled last season as several players were injured, and remade much of their core in the offseason, with Satou Sabally now in Phoenix and Natasha Howard in Indiana. The team wants a special player to help change its fortunes. Bueckers is that player."

There has been some speculation pondering if Bueckers will try to force her way to a different WNBA team. Ahead of the Final Four, Bueckers attempted to downplay the idea that she has a preferred WNBA destination. 

"Nowhere specific,” Bueckers told Front Office Sports' Annie Costabile. “Wherever I end up.”