The UConn women’s basketball team will once again be without superstar guard Paige Bueckers this coming season, as the Hopkins, Minnesota native tore her ACL in her left knee in a pickup game in July and will miss the entire 2022-23 season.
The Huskies played more than half of the season without Bueckers last year after she suffered a tibial plateau fracture and torn meniscus in the same left leg in the closing seconds of a win over Notre Dame in December, Bueckers recovered just in time for the stretch run and helped the Huskies return to the national championship game for the first time since 2016.