Paige Bueckers nearly unanimous winner of WNBA Rookie of the Year

Dallas Wings guard Piege Beukers The league announced on Tuesday, the 2025 WNBA Ruki of the Year was named.

Bueckers are the seventh former Uconn players to win the award, 70 from a media panel get 70 of the first place votes, while Washington Mistics guard Sonia citron The other two were found.

After helping Hakis win their 12th National Championship before that month, the Bukers were the number 1 overall selection in the April draft.

In all 36 appearances for the wings, a starter, the Beukers shot an average of 19.2 points, 5.4 aid, 3.9 rebounds and 1.6 and shot 47.4% from the floor and 88.8% from the free-thro line. He led the total marks (692), per game points, total assistance (194) and all WNBA miscreants per game. She was the only WNBA player this season to score in the top 10 points, per game, aid and theft.

Against 44 marks of Bueckers Los angeles sparks Set a WNBA single-game stalled record on 2 August. He was made 17–21 shots from the ground (81%), which became the first player in the WNBA history scoring 40 or more points and shot at least 80% of the ground in a game.

Wings were 10–30 and missed the playoffs, but will be again in lottery draft in the next season.

Bueckers include Diana Raksi (2004), Tina Charles (2010), Maya Moore (2011), Breena stewart (2014), Nefeesa colir (2019) and Crystal Dangerfield (2020) as Uconn players who have earned this honor.

The WNBA has been awarded the Ruki Award since the second year 1998. The draft of Bueckers 16th player has been prepared, which was given a stop of the year.