Now, they’ll team up in the WNBA.

The Dallas Wings selected Fudd No. 1 overall in Monday’s WNBA Draft at The Shed in New York City. She’s the 51st Husky to be drafted all-time and the seventh, and second straight, Husky to be chosen No. 1 overall following Bueckers also going No. 1 last year to Dallas.

This is the second time in program history, and first time in 15 years, that UConn has had players selected No. 1 overall in back-to-back years in the WNBA Draft. Tina Charles was drafted No. 1 overall by the Connecticut Sun in 2010 before Minnesota drafted Maya Moore with the top pick in 2011. It’s also the first time ever that former college teammates have been drafted No. 1 overall by the same WNBA franchise.

Fudd wore a custom-made silver and black sparkly dress designed by Coach to Monday’s Draft. Her parents, Tim and Katie Fudd, along with her grandparents, Tom and Karen Duffy, and her brothers were in attendance at The Shed. Fellow Huskies KK Arnold and Serah Williams were also at the Draft to support Fudd.

UConn coach Geno Auriemma was not at the draft. Auriemma was attending the services for Norm Myers, the husband of UConn program assistant and former player Peggy Myers. Norm Myers passed away last month after battle brain cancer.

In Dallas, Fudd joins Bueckers, former Villanova star Maddy Siegrist, former Notre Dame star Arike Ogunbowale, former Sun forward Rayah Marshall (was traded this month in exchange for Diamond Miller), and former Minnesota Lynx star and last year’s Defensive Player of the Year Alanna Smith.

The Wings finished last season at the bottom of the WNBA standings with a 10-34 record despite Bueckers’ All-Star and Rookie of the Year campaign. The franchise hasn’t reached the WNBA Playoffs since 2023. Former USF head coach Jose Fernandez was hired in the fall to become the Wings’ new head coach and help re-launch the team’s rebuilding era.

Fudd packed up her life in Storrs last week and will move to Texas in the coming days before training camp starts on Sunday, April 19. Fudd, Bueckers and the Wings will play at the Sun only once this season on Thursday, July 2 at PeoplesBank Arena in Hartford.

Fudd’s collegiate career ended in the Final Four in Phoenix on April 3 in UConn’s national semifinal loss to South Carolina. The guard ended her graduate season averaging a career-high 17.3 points, 2.6 rebounds, a career-high 3.1 assists, a career-high 2.5 steals and 0.5 blocks in 28.7 minutes per game.

Due to injuries her first three years in Storrs, including a November 2023 season-ending ACL and meniscus tear, Fudd only played two mostly healthy seasons in a UConn uniform. This year, 2025-26, was the first time she played an entire season without missing a game due to injury. She finished UConn career averaging 14.7 points, 2.3 rebounds, 2.1 assists, 1.7 steals and 0.4 blocks across 115 games. Fudd also finished her career with a 46.9 field goal percentage, a 42.2 clip from deep and a 92.5 free throw percentage.

Fudd also made her mark on UConn’s history books and finished, No. 1 on career free throw percentage, No. 4 on the program’s single-season made 3-pointers (117, 2025-26), No. 5 on career made 3-pointers (292), and No. 21 for career points (1,687).

She earned All-America honors this season after also being named a two-time All-Big East First Team selection, the 2025 NCAA Final Four Most Outstanding Player, the 2026 Big East Scholar-Athlete of the Year and a 2025 National Champion.

Fudd is the second member of her family to be drafted by the WNBA. Her mom, Katie (then Smrcka-Duffy), was drafted by the Sacramento Monarchs with the No. 62 overall pick in the fourth round of the 2001 WNBA Draft.