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Entering 2025, many analysts pegged the Dallas Wings roster as a dark-horse playoff team, led by the backcourt pairing of No. 1 draft pick Paige Bueckers and four-time WNBA All-Star Arike Ogunbowale.
Early WNBA Futures Odds hovered around -115 for the Wings to make the playoffs, with a projected win total set at 19.5, per ESPN BET.
Instead, Dallas has sputtered out of the gate with a season-opening 99-84 loss to the Minnesota Lynx, a 79-71 home defeat to the Seattle Storm, and another 85-81 loss Wednesday against the Lynx.
That 0-3 mark ties Bueckers' professional losses with her entire UConn resume last season, and starkly contrasts with her previous environment, where losses were rare.
It’s going to be a rough season for Paige Bueckers and the Dallas Wings pic.twitter.com/ClbPpEjrgk
— WNBA Got Game (@wnbagotgame) May 22, 2025
As a senior at UConn, Bueckers not only led the Huskies to their 12th NCAA championship with a flawless 37-3 record (18-0 in Big East play), but she also collected nearly every major accolade.
This includes the Wade Trophy, Honda Sport Award, Nancy Lieberman National Point Guard of the Year, and unanimous first-team All-America honors.
She finished her collegiate career averaging a program-record 19.9 points per game, third all-time in UConn scoring (2,439), and earned Big East Player of the Year honors three times (2021, 2024, 2025).
As a freshman in 2020-21, she made history as the first freshman to earn AP Player of the Year and the first to sweep the Wooden, Naismith, USBWA, and AP national awards.
The Wings, meanwhile, finished the 2024 season with their worst winning percentage since 2011 at .225 (9-31 record), ending 11th in the league and missing the playoffs for the first time since 2020.
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