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Paige nets 2K
Due to several unfortunate injuries, it’s easy to be a bit disappointed when thinking about what could have been for Paige Bueckers. Yet, what has been still is pretty dang great.
On Sunday, the redshirt senior star, playing in her 102nd game, scored her 2,000th point, becoming the fastest UConn Husky to reach the milestone. The previous record was held by Maya Moore, who met the 2,000-point plateau in 108 games. Bueckers is the 12th Husky to join the 2,000-point club.
The history-making bucket came early in the second quarter on a jumper, ticking her past 2,000 and to 2,001 points. Bueckers finished with 19 points, playing just 23 minutes in UConn’s 96-36 win over Seton Hall.
On anticipating and then reaching the achievement, Bueckers said:
I knew I was six points away, so eventually, hopefully I would get there. I didn’t want to press, I didn’t want to force the issue and just let it happen naturally within the game flow and continue to play the right way, look for my teammates, look for my shot, play UConn basketball, and what’s supposed to happen will happen.
Head coach Geno Auriemma said of his star’s…
