The 2025 WNBA draft began as expected, since the UConn Huskies star, Paige Bueckers, was first selected in general by the Dallas Wings on Monday night.
Last year, Caitlin Clark was leaving Iowa as the selection of consensus, and Indiana’s fever did so when they called her name. Clark won the rookie of the year 2024 of the WNBA, breaking records along the way.
Bueckers has had number 1 selection potential since he entered Uconn. Seeing Fruition, just out of a race for the national title with his sisters on the court, he was “overwhelming” for the new star of the wings.
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Paige Bueckers embrace the WNBA Cathy Engelbert commissioner after being selected with the number one general selection for the Wings Dallas in the 2025 WNBA Draft in the shed in Hudson Yards. (Images Vincent Carchietta-Imagn)
“Just an overwhelming feeling of gratitude. It’s super surrealist to be here with other draft guests,” Bueckers said after she heard her name.
The Bueckers became a national champion with the Huskies put a cherry on a brilliant race for the natives of Hopkins, Minnesota.
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His senior season saw 19.9 points, 4.6 assists and 4.4 rebounds averaged by game, while fired 53.4% from the field and 41.9% from Deep. Bueckers’s ability to score anywhere on the floor, and really have the Genoiemma Geno offensive that spread through it was on display throughout the year, including the NCAA tournament.
Bueckers scored his fourth consecutive team of all tournaments with the head of the NCAA for their performances when it mattered.
The UConn Guard, Paige Bueckers (5), seeks to shoot against UCLA during the first half of a Final Four game of the national semifinal during the Women’s University Basketball Tournament of the NCAA, on Friday, April 4, 2025, in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raux)
However, he could not secure a place in the national championship game, during his junior season, falling against Clark and the Iowa Hawkeyes that year.
But the Huskies charged all the way back to win it on South Carolina in a dominant way earlier this month. Bueckers was appointed AP All-American for the third time in his illustrious university career.
Going to the WNBA, Bueckers’s expectations are in the clouds, joining a team in Dallas led by All-Star Arike Ogunbowale, who could use another dynamic guard to work.
Paige Bueckers poses with the WNBA Cathy Engelbert commissioner after being selected with the number one general selection for the Dallas Wings in the 2025 WNBA Draft in the shed in Hudson Yards. (Images Vincent Carchietta-Imagn)
During their four years in UConn, the Bueckers averaged 19.8 points, 4.6 assists and 4.7 rebounds and fired 53.1% from the field in 123 race games.
