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With the 2023-24 NCAA Women’s basketball season getting ready to tip off very soon on Nov. 6, it’s time to review the preseason AP Top 25 rankings, which features the defending champion LSU women’s basketball at No. 1 for the first time in the program’s history, per the Associated Press. The Tigers are back to […]

This year’s preseason AP women’s All-America team features a star-studded roster with basketball talents like Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese, and Paige Bueckers. These outstanding players, each with their own distinct strengths, are poised to leave a significant mark on the upcoming women’s college basketball season. This is the second consecutive season that University of Iowa […]

UConn women’s basketball star Paige Bueckers has been rehabbing her surgically repaired ACL for more than a year, but it’s finally time for her to return and hopefully help the Huskies compete for a national championship in 2023-24. Ahead of the brand new campaign, Bueckers had a strong message for anyone who is doubting her […]

Paige Bueckers was the No. 1 recruit in 2020, and in her freshman year with the UConn women’s basketball program in 2020-2021, she lived up to the hype and won the National Player of the Year award. Since then, Bueckers has dealt with injuries, missing a chunk of the 2021-2022 season, and missing all of […]

The UConn women’s basketball team is getting a huge boost this upcoming season in the form of Paige Bueckers. The star point guard missed the entirety of the 2022-23 season due to an ACL injury she suffered in the offseason. She is set to return to the court for the 2023-24 season and is fresh […]

In the new age of NIL (name, image, likeness) deals, some of the top college athletes are able to make a profit in a way they were never allowed to do before. Some college athletes have signed deals that are worth millions of dollars. When it comes to the women’s basketball side of things, there […]

The UConn women’s basketball team is in the middle of its European summer tour that includes four games in three countries. The Huskies are visiting Croatia, Slovenia and Italy on their tour. The UConn women’s basketball team announced that star Paige Bueckers will not participate in any of the four games on the tour. Paige […]

It has been 369 days since UConn women’s basketball star Paige Bueckers tore her ACL, and she took to Instagram to announce that she has been fully cleared to play live basketball. “All cleared and ready for takeoff🚀 369 days… GOD DID!” Paige Bueckers said in the caption of her Instagram post. Getting Bueckers back […]

UConn women’s basketball star Paige Bueckers was in attendance watching her former teammate Dorka Juhasz play with the Minnesota Lynx against the Dallas Wings, and Bueckers gave an update on her recovery from a torn ACL in an interview on the sideline. “Yeah I’m just still waiting to get cleared to like play pickup, play […]

Although UConn women’s basketball star Paige Bueckers is not fully cleared from her ACL injury that kept her out of the 2022-2023 season, but head coach Geno Auriemma said she is 90% recovered, and is expected to be fully ready by the start of the regular season, according to D’Arcy Maine of ESPN. “If she’s […]

UConn women’s basketball star Paige Bueckers is reportedly “very close” to being fully cleared after recovering from a torn ACL that kept her out for the entire 2022-2023 season, according to Alexa Philippou of ESPN. “I’m feeling really good,” Paige Bueckers told reporters at UConn on Wednesday. “I’m just past the 10-month mark [following the […]

The UConn women’s basketball team had a successful season by regular standards. They finished 31-6 overall and 18-2 in Big East Conference play. They were a consistent top ten team in the AP rankings throughout the season, won the Big East Tournament and advanced to the Sweet Sixteen in the NCAA Tournament. But this isn’t […]

The Connecticut women’s basketball team is dealing with a dastardly case of the injury bug, as its players are dropping like flies. The college basketball season began just a month ago, and the Huskies have already lost two more of its top players to injury.  UConn headed into the season without Paige Bueckers (torn ACL) […]

UConn women’s basketball team can’t catch a break after it lost another member of its team to injuries. The program announced 6-foot-5 forward Dorka Juhàsz broke her thumb and will be out for at least three games. That brings UConn’s roster down to eight active players after only three games. The Huskies went into the […]

Geno Auriemma has seen a lot of great players come through his program. If Azzi Fudd somehow wasn’t on that list before, she sure is now after pouring in a career-high 32 points in UConn’s 83-76 win over Texas yesterday night. After Fudd torched the Longhorns, Auriemma shared a story about how the sophomore handled […]

When Paige Bueckers heard the news she wouldn’t be suiting up for UConn on the court this year, she couldn’t believe. In an interview on Nov. 7 that resurfaced yesterday, the 2021 national freshman of the year described her emotions of that reality setting over the next week. Every athlete who has experienced a season-ending […]

Azzi Fudd knew going into this season she was going to have to play a huge role in helping UConn maintain its winning ways following major injuries to its roster. The No. 1 high school recruit from a year showed yesterday she is up for the task. During the Huskies’ 115-42 exhibition win over Kuztown, […]

UConn can’t seem to avoid the injury bug. It was announced today freshman Isuneh (a.k.a Ice) Brady will miss the entire NCAAW season after dislocating her patella in her right knee. According to ESPN, the injury occurred on Oct. 21 and underwent a successful on Tuesday. Brady was a five-star recruit coming out of high […]

University of Connecticut’s women’s basketball team has been one of the most dominant programs in college sports history but its competition is creeping up on it. With star guard Paige Bueckers out for the entire 2022-23 season, the Associated Press ranked five other teams ahead of UConn in its annual preseason top-25 women’s basketball poll. […]

The UConn Women’s Basketball program was handed some devastating news on Wednesday. Superstar guard Paige Bueckers has suffered a torn ACL and will miss the entirety of the 2022-23 season. Via UConn’s Twitter: NEWS: Paige Bueckers suffered a torn ACL in her left knee on Monday and will miss the 2022-23 season.https://t.co/ZSzEYwwWY1 pic.twitter.com/nWSB4uvyK7 — UConn […]

Following an injury-plagued regular season, Paige Bueckers is putting on a very strong run through the NCCA Tournament. The UConn Huskies point guard, fresh off of a thrilling Elite Eight win, is starting to win the hearts of fans off the court as well. Bueckers has agreed to a NIL deal with Chegg, an education […]

With March Madness quickly approaching, The UConn Huskies aim to have one of the best players on the team return to the lineup soon. Currently ranked seventh in the NCAA, UConn is about to become even more dangerous in the most crucial part of the season, as Paige Bueckers will provide a massive boost to […]

The day has come. The seemingly eternal winning streak of the University of Connecticut in women’s basketball has been put to rest by Villanova on Wednesday night. The Wildcats pulled off the monumental upset, 72-69 to snap the Huskies’ 169-game conference winnings streak. The last time UConn lost in a Big East contest, Macklemore & […]