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Alexa Philippou
New York – Uconne Star and Newly Runned Champion NCAA Paige Bueckers was selected No. 1 Dallas Wings In the WNBA proposal in 2025 on Monday evening.
Bueckers, triple first team All-American from Hopkins in Minnesota, becomes the sixth player and since then first Breanna Stewart In 2016, it will be developed overall and won the National Championship in the same year. Bueckers led Huskies to their first NCAA title in nine years last Sunday in its last collegial game.
National Player of the Year 2021, Bueckers is also the sixth player of UConn, who was developed No. 1 and joined the important group of super -stars WNBA, which includes Sue Bird (2002), Diana Taurasi (2004). Tina Charles (2010), Maya Moore (2011) and Stewart (2016).
The selection means a promising change of happiness for the wings, which last season left 9-31, missed the playoffs and changed coaches. Dallas was rewarded with the best selection in November, when he first won a lottery design in franchise history.
The Wings, which previously played in Detroit and Tulse, when she was known as a shock, made Postseason in five of her nine seasons from moving to Dallas in 2016, but proceeded around the first round only once, in 2023.
Beckers, Wings 2025-headed four times all-star before adding Ariko – They have already been prepared for killing newcomers. Stars Sably and Natasha Howard He moved to various teams while the new coach Chris Koclanes and CEO Curt Miller brought Dijons Carrington, Tyasha Harris, Nalssa Smith and Myisha Hines-Alllen During a free agency.
Now the wings will try to direct the momentum of the elaboration of Bueckers into the rewriting of their franchise in and outside the court. The team has already announced a step in 2026 from Arlington to Dallas, where it will have a separate practical facility and will play in a larger and newly renovated arena.
Bueckers enters professionals and boasts the highest career scoring in UConn (19.8 ppg) for remarkable efficiency (53% of the field, 42% of 3, 85% of the free throw line). The six-meter guard surpassed a few knee injuries, including ACL tears that led her the whole campaign 2022-23 to play the best basketball of her career in the last two seasons with Huskies.
While she can play on and off the ball, several WnBA talent evaluators said that she sees her as a guideline of points in the league for a long time. Her pairing with Ogunbowale in Backcourt could soon appear as one of the best guards in the league.
