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UConn Shares Exciting Statement Featuring Paige Bueckers on Friday

Originally posted on Athlon Sports
By Rowan Fisher-Shotton | Last updated May 16, 2025 4:23 PM ET

The UConn Huskies women’s basketball program recently celebrated another significant milestone.

With the 2025 WNBA season set to tip off, 15 former Huskies will begin the year on opening-day rosters.

Among the names highlighted was guard Paige Bueckers, who is set to make her debut with the Dallas Wings in their season opener against the Minnesota Lynx on Friday.

Bueckers was selected No. 1 overall by the Wings in the 2025 WNBA Draft after a standout college career with the Huskies.

UConn took to X to celebrate the achievement, highlighting not only the program's strong pipeline to the professional ranks but also one of college basketball’s most decorated players stepping onto the WNBA stage.

We have 1⃣5⃣ Huskies on opening day rosters in the WNBA!

Good luck to our alums as the season starts tonight. pic.twitter.com/9qfTB14lHv
— UConn Women’s Basketball (@UConnWBB) May 16, 2025

Bueckers arrived at UConn in 2020 and quickly reshaped expectations for freshman guards.

In 2021, she became the first-ever freshman to claim the John R. Wooden Award and AP Player of the Year, joining an elite list of Huskies legends.

In her final senior season in 2024-25, she led UConn in scoring (19.9 ppg) and assists (4.6 apg), while shooting 53.4% from the field and 41.9% from 3-point range.

In the process, she guided the Huskies to their 12th national title, won the Wade Trophy, Nancy Lieberman Award and consensus First-Team All-America honors.

She also earned Big East Player of the Year and Tournament Most Outstanding Player distinctions.

Dallas finished 2024 with a 9-31 record, the franchise’s worst winning percentage since 2011.

Now, the Wings enter the 2025 WNBA season with a renewed sense of hope, as a former college basketball icon leads the franchise into a new era.

This article first appeared on Athlon Sports and was syndicated with permission.

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