{"id":566302,"date":"2026-04-05T16:31:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T16:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/566302\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T16:31:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T16:31:22","slug":"severe-fomo-paige-bueckers-talks-missing-out-on-uconns-final-four-run-in-1st-year-as-alum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/566302\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Severe FOMO,&#8217; Paige Bueckers Talks Missing Out on UConn&#8217;s Final Four Run in 1st Year as Alum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Paige Bueckers had a phenomenal Rookie of the Year campaign in 2025, and she&#8217;s now gearing up for her second WNBA season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">But her success at the professional level doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s any easier to have to miss out on UConn&#8217;s Final Four run. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The Dallas Wings star said she has &#8220;FOMO&#8221; seeing the Huskies play in March Madness. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Bueckers was a part of several outstanding UConn teams, including the 2024-25 squad that went 37-3 and won a national title. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The Huskies are looking to make it back-to-back championships for the first time since 2016, but it won&#8217;t be easy since they have No. 1 South Carolina standing in their way. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">But UConn has been arguably the best team in college basketball this year and hasn&#8217;t lost a game since last February, so even an elite team like the Gamecocks might not be enough to frazzle the Huskies. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paige Bueckers had a phenomenal Rookie of the Year campaign in 2025, and she&#8217;s now gearing up for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":566303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-566302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}