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Message: [QUOTE="Sluconn Husky, post: 3743392, member: 5089"] Sports Illustrated's top-10 and burning questions: [B]3. UConn[/B]:[I] The Huskies will be [URL='https://www.si.com/college/2020/11/13/uconn-women-geno-auriemma-paige-bueckers']powered by youth[/URL] with a roster made up of seven new players and zero seniors as they make their return to the Big East. Top-ranked recruit Paige Bueckers leads the incoming group while junior guard Christyn Williams is slated as the team’s leader. UConn will have to make up for the loss of leading scorers Megan Walker and Crystal Dangerfield, but the team can have a high ceiling if its young core can mesh under Geno Auriemma’s leadership [/I] * [B]2. What can be expected from top recruit Paige Bueckers as UConn returns to the Big East?[/B] [I] UConn is no stranger to recruiting top talent, and [URL='https://www.si.com/college/2020/11/13/uconn-women-geno-auriemma-paige-bueckers']Bueckers enters the season[/URL] with high expectations after a standout high school career. During Buecker’s senior season in 2019, the incoming guard [URL='https://www.maxpreps.com/athlete/paige-bueckers/Obxir5_DEeaAdqA2nzwY6g/girls-basketball/stats.htm']averaged[/URL] 21.4 points, 9.4 assists and 5.0 rebounds while standing out defensively with 5.4 steals per game. Auriemma has made it clear that Bueckers, though talented, is not going to single-handedly lead the Huskies to a championship. The [URL='https://www.si.com/high-school/2020/08/27/paige-bueckers-2020-gatorade-athlete-year']Gatorade Female High School Athlete of the Year[/URL] is expected to run point for UConn as the team will be without Dangerfield, who averaged a team-high 3.9 assists per game. Additionally, Buckers has [URL='https://www.si.com/college/2020/11/13/uconn-women-geno-auriemma-paige-bueckers']discussed[/URL] that she has tried to take on a leadership role among the incoming class of seven players, including six freshmen. UConn, coming off a [URL='https://www.si.com/college/2020/02/27/uconn-womens-basketball-geno-auriemma']down season[/URL] compared to the program’s standard, is entering 2020–21 looking for its first championship since 2016. Bueckers brings high talent to the Huskies, but [URL='https://www.si.com/college/2020/11/13/uconn-women-geno-auriemma-paige-bueckers']she has said[/URL] the team’s overall success is what matters most to her this season. UConn will be tasked with finding chemistry among its young roster, and Bueckers will not be alone as juniors Williams and Olivia Nelson-Ododa look to lead the way.[/I] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.si.com/college/2020/11/20/womens-ncaa-basketball-preview-rankings[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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