UConn guard Paige Bueckers (Image Source: IMAGN)
UConn guard Paige Bueckers said she wasn’t aware of reaching the 2,000-point mark until after the game against St. John’s. Bueckers made the admission on Friday in the team’s media availability session for Sunday’s game against Seton Hall.
The Huskies guard returned to the team on Wednesday against St. John’s after missing two games due to a left knee sprain she sustained in the third quarter of the game against Villanova on Jan. 5. She started and scored 12 points, moving her six points away from reaching the 2,000-point milestone.
When asked about her feelings about reaching the career points mark, she said she was clueless until the final buzzer against St. John’s.
“I feel like each person has their own individual outlook on it,” Bueckers said (4:30). “I honestly didn’t even know I was six points away until after last game. I had no idea it was such a big deal.”
Paige Bueckers has a chance to break into the 2,000-point mark when the Huskies (16-2, 7-0 in Big East) face Seton Hall (13-4, 5-1) on Sunday at the Gampel Pavilion in Storrs. The Pirates are coming off a 58-52 victory over Marquette on Wednesday.
Paige Bueckers makes her feelings known about Aubrey Griffin’s comeback
Paige Bueckers expressed excitement about the impending comeback of UConn forward Aubrey Griffin from a knee injury that sidelined her for a year. Griffin tore her ACL in her left knee on Dec. 3, 2023, in the Huskies’ win against Creighton, causing her to miss the rest of the 2023-24 season.
Bueckers, who tore her ACL in August 2022, knows the feeling of missing a year due to a major injury. She’s excited to have the 6-foot-1 forward back and hopes she’ll be a major contributor to the team’s mission to capture their first title since 2016.
“It means everything to have Aubrey back,” Bueckers said (0:16). She’s been a part of this program for a long time now. She knows what it’s all about. She’s a huge part of this team.”
Last month, UConn coach Geno Auriemma gave a timeline for Aubrey Griffin’s return to the court. He said the forward will be back in the middle of January at the soonest.
Before tearing her ACL, Griffin averaged 9.5 points, 6.0 rebounds, 1.4 assists and 1.5 steals per game in the 2023-24 women’s college basketball season. In four seasons, the forward tallied 8.3 ppg, 5.7 rpg, 1.1 apg and 1.4 spg in 110 games for the Huskies.
She’s expected to back up freshman Sarah Strong in the power forward spot for the second half of the season.
News
He Forced Me to the Ground for Walking in My Own Country — He Had No Idea I Was the FBI Agent About to Destroy Everything He Built
At 6:47 on a Tuesday evening, somebody in Oakridge dialed 911 because a Black man in a gray hoodie was walking too slowly past the entrance to Whitfield Estates. That was the whole emergency. No weapon. No fight. No broken…
A Teacher Tore Up My Homework and Called Me a Liar in Front of My Entire Class — She Had No Idea My Father Was a Four-Star General About to Walk Through the Door
The tearing sound was small, but it changed the room. It was the kind of sound children knew instinctively to fear: paper ripped by an adult hand, slow enough to be deliberate, loud enough to be public. Every head in…
He Ordered Me to Kneel in a Seattle Police Station Because He Thought I Was Nobody — He Had No Idea I Was the Federal Prosecutor Who Came to End His Career
By the time Samantha Reynolds stepped out of the Uber, the rain had already found the back of her neck. Seattle rain had a way of doing that. It never arrived with drama. It did not announce itself like a…
I was laughed at in a hall in the United States just because I was a Black boy from Chicago’s South Side — but no one knew that was the day everything began to change.
The first thing Dr. Richard Caldwell noticed about the boy was not his color. It was the shirt. A white button-down, freshly washed, carefully ironed, and still much too large for him. The collar sat wrong against his thin neck….
I stood inside a bank in the United States… and watched a 10-year-old boy get humiliated for his shoes—until everything flipped in a way no one expected.
When Wesley Brooks pushed open the doors of First National Heritage Bank, he did not know he was walking into the worst hour of his life. The glass was heavier than it looked. He had to lean his slight weight…
TRAGIC DISCOVERY: The Chase has left fans stunned with details surrounding the d3ath of star contestant Tim McCarthy, 64, just days before his episode was due to air.
The Chase viewers were left heartbroken on Wednesday night (August 27) after learning that contestant Tim McCarthy had d!ed just weeks after filming his episode. Tim, from Tyldesley in Greater Manchester, p@ssed away in July following a long illness….
End of content
No more pages to load
