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If there’s an overriding lesson from the last four years of Paige Bueckers’ college basketball experience, it’s this, she explains: “You never know what each day will bring. You never know what life is gonna throw at you.”
There was a time when Bueckers didn’t necessary think that way, when she assumed her plans would come to pass. Like when she arrived in Storrs, Conn., in the fall of 2020. She knew then that her freshman season — already outlined with the COVID-19 routines of testing, masks and isolation — wouldn’t look exactly the way she always imagined as a kid. Still, when she thought about the four seasons in front of her, there was a sense of expectation and progress: Four years of healthy play, a few national wins, a graduation and at the end of it, a seat at the 2024 WNBA Draft.
Very little has gone to plan. Bueckers was, in fact, at the 2024 WNBA Draft, but she was there backing her teammates Aaliyah Edwards and Nika Mühl being drafted. She described the night as “surreal,” having always imagined that the class she entered with alongside Edwards and Mühl would be the class with which she left. Instead, she’s now watching them begin their WNBA careers on television as she returns to college offseason workouts, using one of the two open redshirt years.
