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Two Sundays ago, Paige Bueckers and Sue Bird gathered inside Amalie Arena in Tampa, Fla., as different points in their lives were celebrated.

Bueckers led a courtside coronation. The Huskies blew out South Carolina to win UConn’s first national championship in nine years. With the souvenir net draped around her neck after her final college game, Bueckers said she felt an overwhelming sense of joy and gratitude.

Bird also appeared grateful for her moment in the spotlight. She was present, in part, to co-host an alternate ESPN telecast with her best friend and former UConn teammate Diana Taurasi. But in the first half of the Huskies’ eventual 23-point victory, Bird received a warm ovation from fans as she was honored as a new inductee in the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame.

That both Bird and Bueckers were in the same place at the same time was a fitting reminder of the current moment in women’s basketball. A new guard is entering the professional ranks while an older generation looks on — and receives acknowledgement — from the arena rafters.

Over the last three years, WNBA trailblazers like Bird, Taurasi, Sylvia Fowles and Candace Parker have retired from the league. Bueckers, who is expected to be selected with the No. 1 pick in Monday night’s WNBA Draft by the Dallas Wings, represents a potential pillar for its future.

Paige. Buckets. Enough said. 🏆

Paige Bueckers closed out her UConn career with a national title and the 2025 Wade Trophy. She was a 3x AP First Team All-American, a 2x Nancy Lieberman Award winner, and the 2021 National Player of the Year. Bueckers led UConn to four Final… pic.twitter.com/pARNMvO5DK

— WNBA (@WNBA) April 11, 2025

She joins last year’s top rookies, Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese, as cornerstones of the WNBA’s latest chapter. Who better to be a new baton carrier than someone who faced constant questions about pressure and legacy throughout her college career? As the WNBA attempts to build on its historic 2024 season, Bueckers’ arrival is as close as the league can come to adding another ambassador prepared to help compound its growth.

“It’s so popular right now, so it’s at a really good place,” Wings general manager Curt Miller said. “I’m excited about this draft class keeping the momentum going.”

Bueckers is used to high expectations. At UConn, she faced endless reminders of them. Chairs from each of the program’s Final Four appearances were in the Huskies’ practice gym. Banners for All-Americans and national titles hang on walls. Some Storrs, Conn., highway welcome signs denote how many championships the Huskies have won. After last week, that’s now an NCAA-record 12.

Bueckers is aware of each marker. She learned to refine her mindset and become more process-focused to manage. Over five years, she became the face of a college program that has an arguably higher profile than almost every WNBA franchise, navigating not only her own growing stardom but also a changing climate in college sports. She is part of a generation of college players who have conducted themselves like pros while still in school. Photo and commercial shoots become part of off days. She already has partnerships with Nike, Intuit, Google and Bose. And Friday, Bueckers — having never stepped foot on a WNBA court — was part of Ally’s promotional materials for becoming the official banking partner of the WNBA.

Eight days after finishing her collegiate career, Bueckers will officially turn the page in her story when she walks across the draft stage. She’ll almost certainly be headed to Dallas to join a franchise that lacks the same historic relevance as her alma mater. Though the Wings technically have three championships to their name, those titles belong to the Detroit Shock, which later relocated to Tulsa and eventually moved to Texas.

“I can’t begin to tell you how much this just injects energy, enthusiasm, as we head into the ’25 season,” Miller said in December after the Wings were awarded the No. 1 pick.

As a three-time All-American, three-time Big East Player of the Year and one-time Naismith Player of the Year, Bueckers can look to Clark as a road map through her rookie season.

The former Iowa star’s adjustment to the pros took only a few weeks. Clark exploded, adjusting to the WNBA’s physicality, finding her stroke and meshing with her teammates en route to an All-WNBA first-team season. The Indiana Fever returned to the playoffs for the first time since 2016.

“Much like last year when we thought Caitlin Clark’s game was going to translate right away, and for the most part it did, I think Paige’s game is going to translate right away,” UConn alum and Hall of Fame forward Rebecca Lobo said. “Caitlin and Paige are very different players. … But their impact can be just as significant.”

Teammates will feel Bueckers’ impact in games — she is a willing passer and will create even better looks for Dallas’ existing star guard Arike Ogunbowale. And it will be felt league-wide — the WNBA knows she’s a TV draw, with two Wings games on ABC this season after none last year.

In Dallas, team executives have also long recognized the impact the No. 1 pick would have. When the Wings won the lottery in mid-November, nine days after Miller was announced as their new GM, they also had yet to hire a coach. But that Sunday, when the ping-pong balls bounced in their favor, Miller knew it was transformative.

The Wings, who hired Chris Koclanes as their coach in December, were already in a growth moment when they learned of their good fortune. They had been planning a 2026 move from Arlington to Dallas, boosting their arena seating from around 6,000 to 9,000. A new practice facility was already in the works, too, and they added more national partners than ever last season. Dallas rebudgeted its ticket revenue three times in 2024 and sold two half-percent ownership stakes at a league-record $208 million valuation.

I woke up feeling like a traitor cause I was really clapping when a certain team scored??? 😭☘️ anyway, go wings lol. can’t wait for the draft. @DallasWings yall know what to do ❗️

— Arike Ogunbowale (@Arike_O) April 7, 2025

But in the same way that Clark supercharged interest in the Fever and Reese did for the Chicago Sky, Bueckers will likely provide a boost. Though Dallas’ total ticket revenue grew 44 percent year over year from 2023 to 2024, the franchise is projecting a 50 percent increase in total ticket revenue this season. The Wings have sold out their season ticket inventory each of the past two seasons, but they announced they did so in late November, just days after securing the No. 1 pick.

Bueckers, 23, is a known star. Off the court, she garnered headlines from appearances at the U.S. Open and New York Fashion Week. This season, the Huskies sold out their season tickets for Gampel Pavilion for the first time since 2004-05.

UConn’s blowout win over South Carolina was the third-most watched women’s basketball championship game, peaking at 9.8 million viewers, according to ESPN. The Sweet 16 round averaged 1.7 million viewers across ESPN’s networks, the second-most watched Sweet 16 on record behind last year.

Monday’s draft might also fall short of 2024’s record event, but it’s poised to remain noteworthy and could be the second-most watched W draft ever. Bueckers will hear her name called, share a moment with commissioner Cathy Engelbert and begin a post-draft circuit consisting of interviews and photo shoots.

As Taurasi said last season as Clark prepared for the WNBA, reality is coming. For Bueckers, this is true, too. But as a part of a wave of name, image and likeness stars who have already been the faces of a program and the sport, Bueckers is poised to be another success story in this era of historic WNBA growth. It’s impossible to be fully prepared for what’s next, but she is well-positioned to thrive.

Here’s a look at the order of Monday’s draft:

(Illustration: Demetrius Robinson / The Athletic; photo of Paige Bueckers: David Butler II / Imagn Images)

As Sarah Strong dominated the South Carolina frontcourt during UConn’s national championship victory, gobbling up rebounds, protecting the rim and scoring from everywhere on the court, it was easy to imagine her also doing so at the next level. WNBA executives had to be drooling over the idea of drafting the next Huskies star.

But they’ll have to wait another three years. Under the collective bargaining agreement, which expires at the end of the 2025 season, American-born players are eligible to be drafted after completing four years of college. The one exception is that players can declare after their junior seasons if they turn 22 during the calendar year of the WNBA Draft. Since Strong has a February birthday, that won’t be an option.

As women’s basketball booms, players have more choices in shaping their careers, whether that’s in college via the transfer portal or professionally with new leagues. However, this is one decision that remains out of their control.

“I definitely think we should have the option,” USC star JuJu Watkins said on the “Good Game with Sarah Spain” podcast. “There’s just been such a growth in college basketball, where it’s like, why would you want to leave? Because you’re able to have that experience and build your brand here in college as well. I would say we should definitely have the option, but I think college is a way to prepare us for the pros as well. … It’s a touchy subject, but I’m for it.”

Although a change to allow players to declare early is unlikely, enough underclassmen are tempting pro prospects right now, headlined by Strong. Watkins, who has two remaining years of eligibility, would be a no-brainer lottery pick, even with a torn ACL that would keep her sidelined for this upcoming WNBA season. Madison Booker of Texas has a WNBA body and pull-up game, and her fellow SEC players Ashlyn Watkins (South Carolina) and Talaysia Cooper (Tennessee) also could be pro-ready.

There’s a world where JuJu Watkins decides to sit out the upcoming season, using both of her final years of eligibility, and enters the 2028 WNBA Draft that features Sarah Strong.

If you were a GM with the No. 1 overall pick, who would you choose? pic.twitter.com/AUixhKz3oc

— I talk hoops 🏀 (@trendyhoopstars) April 11, 2025

The idea of the age limit has historically benefited most parties, even if it diminished individual player agency. The WNBA is already the hardest league in the world to make and earn a second contract in, and it doesn’t behoove the current player pool to add more competitors for the limited roster spots.

Until recently, player experience was better in college than in the WNBA. It often didn’t make sense for athletes to sacrifice the ability to earn a college degree to pre-emptively join a league that didn’t pay that well. Certain players nevertheless took advantage of the opportunity to go pro after three seasons, including No. 1 picks Jewell Loyd and Jackie Young. Satou Sabally, the No. 2 pick in 2020, cited finances as the reason she left Oregon early, as she was in college before athletes could make money.

Foreign-born athletes don’t have to deal with the same age-related constraints as their American counterparts. Players born outside the U.S. can declare for the draft the year they turn 20, provided they don’t attend college in the NCAA system, presumably as a way to incentivize talent around the world to play in the WNBA. Those concessions have never been made for American players, who already grow up dreaming of playing in the league.

Now the WNBA has better accommodations, more lucrative salaries and a higher profile, but college sports also offer money from collectives and the ability to profit from NIL deals. Athletes are no longer missing out on their earning potential by being denied early entry into the professional ranks.

The league benefits from the age limit as well. In addition to rookies being more physically suited for the pro game, the NCAA is a fantastic marketing tool for the WNBA. Players come into the league with four years of national exposure and oodles of name recognition. Though casual NBA fans struggle to identify one-and-dones, most WNBA fans are intimately familiar with the likes of Paige Bueckers, Aneesah Morrow and Hailey Van Lith before they even play their first professional game.

As a result, even though a new CBA is being negotiated, don’t expect the age limit to be a point of contention.

“It has been mentioned; I don’t think it’s a high priority,” Seattle Storm guard Lexie Brown said on “The Ringer WNBA Show” last month. “Going out into the world at 18, 19 years old as a young woman with no degree to go play a sport with nonguaranteed contracts, it’s kind of a recipe for disaster.”

There is a reasonable discussion to be had about whether Bueckers would be the No. 1 pick if every player in college this season were draft-eligible. Strong’s overall game, combined with her youth, in a league that still runs through the post, makes her a tantalizing selection. Watkins’ prodigious skill and star power put her in that hypothetical conversation as well.

For now, this exercise remains theoretical. College basketball is still a more popular product, and the WNBA can afford to remain exclusive and close its doors to younger players with all of the talent that already exists within its ranks. The subset of players who could realistically make the jump early is limited — too small to rewrite an entire set of rules for.

(Photos of Madison Booker and Sarah Strong:  Alex Slitz / Getty Images, Joe Buglewicz / Getty Images)