Final Four, Paige Bueckers and UConn
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Headlining the men's Wooden Award finalist list are Duke's Cooper Flagg and Auburn's Johni Broome, who sustained elbow and leg injuries in the Tigers' Elite Eight win over Michigan State.
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USC is taking on No. 2 UConn in the Elite Eight for a spot in the women's Final Four.
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Paige Bueckers may be considered one of, if not the best, player in college basketball. Even though the UConn Huskies star is headed to the 2025 Final Four, it doesn't mean she's had an easy road to get there.
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The Wooden Award named its five women's college basketball finalists on Tuesday, per ESPN's Kendra Andrews, with UConn's Paige Bueckers, USC's JuJu Watkins, UCLA's Lauren Betts, Texas' Madison Booker and Notre Dame's Hannah Hidalgo making the cut.
Bueckers got back plenty in that game for herself and her teammates, smoothed over the rough patches and was the player who, whenever Auriemma was too deep into the team’s mistakes, could draw him back.
Former NBA player Etan Thomas wrote a column suggesting there was a race factor into why Paige Bueckers' popularity has yet to reach Caitlin Clark heights.
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Coming into the game against USC, Bueckers had recorded 413 total NCAA Tournament points through her four-year playing career at UConn, good for the eighth most of all-time. With
Madness is in full effect and the NCAA Women’s Tournament has been one of the more eventful ones we’ve seen in recent years. The No. 2 UConn Huskies recently advanced to the Elite 8 after beating No.