UConn women’s basketball star Paige Bueckers will be out roughly eight weeks after undergoing successful left knee surgery on Monday, Dec. 13 to repair an anterior tibial plateau fracture and lateral meniscus tear, the school announced on Tuesday.
Bueckers injured her knee in the Huskies’ win over Notre Dame on Dec. 5. She was initially diagnosed with just a tibial plateau fracture and was expected to miss 6-8 weeks as a result. The torn meniscus is new as of UConn’s announcement. The recovery is expected to take eight weeks from the date of the surgery, which puts her potential return around the first week of February.