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“We’re in the Bahamas,” Paige Bueckers said Friday during a press conference just outside Imperial Arena, the transformed convention center at the heart of the Atlantis Paradise Island resort, where on Saturday UConn faces Minnesota to open the Battle 4 Atlantis. “I mean, last year we were in Storrs, Connecticut, the whole year, so …”
Hold on. Moments earlier, Bueckers, who had more college options over a longer period of time than any high school player in America, had mentioned that she
always wanted to attend UConn.
Auriemma couldn’t let it go. He interjected.
“I thought that was your dream, to go there,” he said. “Now you’re [piling] on Storrs?”
“No,” Bueckers said. “I’m saying it’s nice to get out and explore once in a while.
Mask, no mask … it’s just a different environment, important for us and to be here and play the game we love. That’s very important as well.”
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