There’s no dispute about Paige Bueckers’ legacy: She put UConn back on top

TAMPA, Fla. — Azzi Fudd pointed toward the rim: “It’s your turn.”

Paige Bueckers glanced at the hoop, smiled, pulled her ballcap down and started climbing. Finally, Bueckers got to the top of the ladder, put a piece of nylon between the blades of a pair of scissors and squeezed the orange handles together.

Snip. Snip.

She had cut down nets before in what has so far been a decorated career playing basketball — first catching the attention of the greater public with middle school highlights that went viral before evolving into a high school phenom and then a collegiate All-American. Everyone assumed that this moment would come much

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