Paige Bueckers has three more years of NCAA eligibility remaining. She disclosed that she will not declare for the 2023 WNBA draft despite being eligible.
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Paige Bueckers missed most of her sophomore season with a left knee injury but led her team to the national championship game.

Paige Bueckers started playing basketball at age five. She played for the tenth-grade and junior varsity basketball teams at Hopkins High School in Minnetonka while in seventh grade.
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On November 25, 2016, Paige Bueckers made her freshman season debut for Hopkins High School, recording 28 points, five steals, and four assists in a 74–34 win over Osseo Senior High School.
As a junior on February 1, 2019, Paige Bueckers scored a career-high 43 points in a 69–66 win over Wayzata High School, surpassing 2,000 career points.
Paige Bueckers won all the national player of the year awards she was eligible for—AP Player of the Year, Naismith College Player of the Year, USBWA Women’s National Player of the Year, and the John R. Wooden Award. She became the first freshman to receive any of the awards.


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