Paige Bueckers recently showed her happiness for her UConn teammates, Ashlynn Shade and Sarah Strong, and also her coach, Geno Auriemma, who won impressive conference awards. While Ashlynn Shade was named as the ‘Big East 6th Woman of the Year’, Sarah Strong won the ‘Big East Freshman of the Year’. Meanwhile, Auriemma won the ‘Big East Coach of the Year’ award.
Bueckers shared graphics of the three awardees, and reacted with ‘cowboy’ emojis to Shade’s win, ‘thumbs-up’ emojis for Strong and ‘goat’ emojis for Auriemma. The UConn Huskies have had an incredible run this season and finished first in the Big East with an 18-0 conference score, and 28-3 overall. The Creighton Bluejays finished one spot lower with a 16-2 conference score and 24-5 overall on the season.
Ashlynn Shade plays as a guard for the UConn Huskies and has been a part of the team since 2023. In the previous college basketball season, Shade grabbed the ‘Big East Freshman of the Year’ title. In this season, Shade managed an 8.3 point average, with 2.7 rebounds and 1.4 assists in every matchup played.
Sarah Strong joined the UConn Huskies squad only last year and before that played high school basketball for Fuquay-Varina and Grace Christian School in North Carolina. In this college basketball season, the forward has an impressive 16.1 point average per game, while grabbing 7.9 rebounds and 3.4 assists in every matchup.
Meanwhile, Geno Auriemma has been with the UConn Huskies since 1985 and has won the Big East Coach of the Year 12 times. He also managed to take his team to the NCAA Division 1 Tournaments 11 times.
Paige Bueckers Opens Up On Trash Talking During High School Years
Paige Bueckers showed up on ‘Overtime Select’ with Destiny Jackson on Thursday and spilled some secrets about her trash-talking. Bueckers is definitely not known to be a trash talker, but apparently she was one while she was in her high school years. On Jackson asking her who she trash-talked during the previous season, Bueckers revealed that it was Villanova.
“It’s been a while since I talked trash honestly, like high school, I used to be mean, I used to be rude. But last year, I would just say Villanova was one. Not really much last year … Sometimes it just comes out on accident.” Paige Bueckers said on ‘Overtime Select’.
After defeating the Marquette Golden Eagles on Monday, Paige Bueckers and the UConn Huskies are getting ready for the Big East Tournament tomorrow night. Currently, the UConn Huskies are reigning in the Big East with an 18-0 conference score and 28-3 overall.
Source: Paige Bueckers’ Instagram
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