UConn women’s basketball star Paige Bueckers is expected to miss 6-8 weeks after suffering a tibial plateau fracture in her left knee during Sunday’s win over Notre Dame. An MRI and CT scan revealed the injury, which is “a break of the larger lower leg bone below the knee that breaks into the knee joint itself,” according to the Reno Orthopedic Center.
“Obviously, we’re all extremely disappointed for Paige and that she suffered this injury,” Geno Auriemma said in a release. “It would be really hard to describe how much basketball means to Paige and how much her teammates mean to her.