“Paige is a good piano player.”As the top-seeded Huskies (24-1) prepare to open a most unusual NCAA women’s tournament Sunday night against No. Last spring, the Huskies, for the first time since 2008, graduated a senior class that failed to win an NCAA title. But none of them were asked to step in as freshmen and do what Bueckers has this season, for a Huskies team that has five other freshmen and no seniors. “It’s been a long time since one player has had to carry the team as much as she’s had to in some of these games,” Auriemma said. She has a chance to become the only freshman in history to be named national player of the year.

Source: Washington Post March 20, 2021 22:34 UTC