Last season, there was never a question about who would get the ball for UConn women’s basketball for the final shot.
Whenever the Huskies needed a basket to stop the bleeding — at any point in the game — Paige Bueckers delivered. She came up clutch with a game-sealing 3-pointer at Tennessee just moments after returning from an ankle injury and put the team on her back against South Carolina by scoring the last nine points of the game — including a circus 3-pointer to seal it in the final seconds.
But when Bueckers went down with a knee injury this December, UConn needed to find someone else to turn to in big moments.