Paige Bueckers is soon heading into her final March Madness, set to play in a first-round game against the Arkansas State Red Wolves. UConn enters the tournament as a No. 2 seed. With a matchup against No. 15 Arkansas State on the horizon, Bueckers took to social media, sharing exciting news with fans on social media.

Over the past few seasons, the UConn Huskies women's basketball team was struck with an unprecedented amount of significant injuries to star players. By the time Carolina Ducharme announced that she'd be missing the remainder of the 2023-24 season due to head and neck injuries in late January (she had already been sitting out since November),

At just 23 years old, Paige Bueckers has already cemented herself as a force in women’s basketball: She’s the fastest player in UConn history to reach 2,000 career points; she was the first freshman to nab the Wooden Award and Naismith Trophy—and, come next month, she’s widely projected to be the No. 1 pick in the 2025 WNBA draft.