WNBA draft: Paige Bueckers selected No. 1 by Dallas Wings

Just eight days after Paige Bueckers led Connecticut to the NCAA championship, the star guard was selected first overall by Dallas in Monday’s WNBA draft.

Paige Bueckers will begin her WNBA career the same way she ended her time in college: No. 1.

Dallas led off the three-round, 38-pick WNBA draft Monday in New York by selecting Bueckers first overall, as expected, just eight days after she led Connecticut to the NCAA championship.

“Dallas, I’m so excited,” Bueckers said on the ESPN broadcast minutes after she was drafted. “A new city, a new start, a fresh start, and so I’m excited. Let’s get it.”

Bueckers said she had an “overwhelming sense of gratitude” for being selected first after a collegiate career in which injuries often sidelined her.

“I didn’t do it alone,” she said. “So it took a village.”

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