Paige Bueckers scored a game-high 27 points, 15 in two overtimes, as UConn beat NC State 91-87 in double overtime Monday night to reach the NCAA Women's ...
The Wolfpack hit big shots at big moments to force two overtimes, but UConn had just enough to pull of the win. Monday night, the Huskies lost forward Dorka Juhasz after just three minutes due to a serious wrist injury. An NCAA title is about the only championship Bueckers doesn’t have.
Paige Bueckers, the former Hopkins standout, was electric in leading Connecticut past N.C. State in double overtime.
Bueckers and her team had to work overtime to keep alive the program's Final Four streak. "Once she makes one, the rim is like this big," Williams said, extending both of her arms to make a big circle. She hugged teammates and danced and soaked in the moment and what is to come next. Bueckers didn't get a fairy-tale sendoff in high school. She put the entire UConn team on her back to make sure that happened. Knee surgery sidelined Bueckers for 19 games and left her rusty when she returned. That came after Bueckers had made two free throws with 6 seconds left. "Paige is different. All clutch shots, all necessary, all carrying the weight of a storied program's expectations. I'm not going to lie." Her legend grew exponentially with a shooting exhibition that will be revisited for many years. Each time the ball left her fingertips, swish.
The UConn Huskies superstar point guard is all-in on hanging a banner in Storrs for the first time since 2016 — even if it comes at a personal cost.
Now, the Minnesota native Bueckers and her Huskies are gearing up for a battle against the top-seeded NC State Wolfpack with a trip back home to Minneapolis on the line. "[I'm] trying to do whatever I have to do, cut certain stuff out, and just really lock in this next month." Any deals Bueckers inked also "needed to be about impact and lift across the entire ecosystem of womens basketball," Colas noted. Fans can watch it all unfold on ESPN. So far, Bueckers' approach of putting "basketball first and everything behind that... But all of those business opportunities rank behind her on-court responsibilities.
In potentially the college basketball game of the month, the UConn women's team earned a spot in their 14th straight Final Four with a dramatic double ...
The Huskies took down NC State in a double-overtime instant classic thanks to the star guard's masterclass performance.
When asked about her team’s energy in the two overtimes, Fudd said, “In the second overtime you could tell the way Paige started us off, that really just kind of started…” Her thoughts trailed off. As she rejoiced in various team photos she played with where she sat and how she posed. They never trailed in the game’s final five minutes. The thud of bodies hitting the floor was as commonplace as three-pointers being made, perhaps even greater, considering the top two seeds in the Bridgeport Region were a combined 6-for-33 from deep entering the final frame. “It's one of the best games I've ever been a part of since I've been at UConn,” Auriemma said. “It’s a God’s gift to be able to go up there, step-up and block everything out.” The cheers, coming from the few dozen UConn family members and friends who were waiting for their Huskies to emerge from the underbelly of the stadium, were far quieter than the roars she had garnered earlier in the evening. “It's a shame one of us had to lose, right? “It’s a gift,” Tim says. Of her game-high 27 points, 17 came in the fourth quarter and overtime periods. NC State forward Kayla Jones scored the game’s first basket, but Williams answered with a three-pointer one possession later. In No. 2 UConn’s 91–87 double-overtime win over No. 1 NC State on Monday night, Bueckers played the kind of game that the likes of Diana Taurasi, Sue Bird, Maya Moore and Breanna Stewart have logged for Huskies teams’ past.
Paige Bueckers scored 27 points, and UConn beat North Carolina State to extend the Huskies' record women's Final Four streak to 14 straight.
Juhasz was on the floor in tears and was helped back to the locker room with her team up by seven points. UConn suffered a major blow when Juhasz went down in the first half with a scary-looking injury just above her left wrist. Both teams had chances to win in the final 30 seconds of regulation. They succeeded, advancing farther than the team had in 24 years. “It was just an amazing basketball game and it was a great showcase for our sport.” She was named the Most Outstanding Player of the Bridgeport Region.