UConn star and newly minted NCAA champion Paige Bueckers was chosen No. 1 by the Dallas Wings within the 2025 WNBA draft on Monday evening.
Bueckers, a three-time first-team All-American from Hopkins, Minnesota, turns into the sixth participant, and first since Breanna Stewart in 2016, to be drafted first total and win a nationwide championship in the identical yr. Bueckers led the Huskies to their first NCAA title in 9 years final Sunday in her last collegiate recreation.
