UConn Huskies fans were delighted to see star guard Paige Bueckers back at her alma mater last weekend while the team prepares to defend its 2025 NCAA national championship. Of course, Bueckers was a key component to UConn capturing its first national title since 2016, and the 12th of legendary head coach Geno Auriemma’s tenure with the team. Now, Bueckers has moved on and has become one of the WNBA’s most lethal guards, which resulted in her winning the 2025 WNBA Rookie of the Year Award with the Dallas Wings. But Bueckers will always have ties (and an excuse to return) to UConn; especially right now, given that her girlfriend Azzi Fudd is still on the roster. While these two surely competed against each other all the time when they were both on the Huskies’ roster together, Bueckers seemed to relish the opportunity to match up against Fudd when she returned to Storrs last weekend and played on UConn’s practice squad against their 2025-26 roster. And Bueckers commemorated this UConn return with an October 2Read More
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