In a nearly-unanimous decision, former UConn women’s basketball star Paige Bueckers was crowned the WNBA’s Rookie of the Year on Tuesday after a historic first season with the Dallas Wings.

Bueckers received her trophy from WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert during an appearance on The Jennifer Hudson Show . The superstar received 70 of a possible 72 votes from the media panel that decides the league’s end-of-season awards. She was also named Rookie of the Year and selected to the All-WNBA second team by the Associated Press last week.

Bueckers is the seventh UConn alum to win WNBA Rookie of the Year and the first since Crystal Dangerfield earned the honor with the Minnesota Lynx in 2020. She joins an elite group of former Huskies that also includes Diana Taurasi, Tina Charles, Ma

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