Uconn Huskies: the former NBA player suggests the race component for the lack of popularity of Paige Bueckers
Uconn Huskies Women’s Basketball Star Paige Bueckers He performed at a high level during the NCAA tournament and recently scored 40 points in a game of Sweet 16 against Oklahoma.
Anyone who has followed Bueckers since the beginning of his collegiate career knows that you play like the one against the Saoners They were par for the course. He dropped 34 points against the state of South Dakota also in the second round.
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Uconn Guards Azzi Fudd and Paige Bueckers on the bench against the state of Arkansas in the first round of the NCAA tournament, Saturday 22 March 2025, in Storrs, Connecticut (AP Photo/Jessica Hil;)
But his popularity has yet to go up to the stars like Caitlin Clark when the chosen shooter was winning the games at the Iowa and establishing the NCAA records in the score. The former NBA Etan Thomas center suggested in a column for The guardian Last week there were some reasons for this.
Thomas wrote that the associations of Bueckers with blacks and the lack of a so -called “bad black” with which to face the NCAA tournament influenced the way the whites saw the Huskies guard. He indicated the decision of Bueckers to scream the color women during his Expeys speech in 2021 as a start.
“In the meantime, there has not been a bad black for the buckers against which to compete,” Thomas wrote, alluding to the rivalry on Clark’s field with the Angel Reese of LSU. “The fact that this has meant that it has acquired less attention and adoration from Central America says a lot about the state of the country”.
The Uconn Paige Buackers Guard crosses the student section at Gamel Pavilion after a match against the state of South Dakota in the second round of the NCAA tournament, Monday 24 March 2025, in Storrs. (Photo ap/jessica hill)
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Thomas said that people who had no interest in female basketball suddenly became fans for all the “worst reasons”, adding that “they were there to cheer up Clark’s candor and attack the darkness of Reese, not their talent”.
He then wrote that Bueckers’ decision to cook for his Muslim teammates during Ramadan, sing gospel songs and has a black stepmother and passibelli presumably “simply does not sit well with” that certain demographic “, who embraced Clark and supported him for the” wrong reasons “.
Bueckers has an average of 19.8 points, 4.7 assists and 4.4 rebounds per game. He is part of a Sorority of legendary Huskies players who came to her before, even if she is missing the only thing that great students such as her bird, Diana Taurasi and Breanna Stewart have a national title.
The Uconn Paige Bueckers guard passes the ball during the Sweet 16 of the NCAA tournament against Oklahoma, Saturday 29 March 2025, in Spokane, Washington. (Photo ap/jenny kane)
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Bueckers will likely be the choice n. 1 of Draft Wnba And it will be fun to see her go against Clark, Reese, Cameron Brink, Arike Ogunbowale, Jonquel Jones, Sabrina Ionescu and others when he takes the court in professionals.
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