STORRS, Conn. — Paige Bueckers went up for a layup and came down hard, awkwardly. And she knew, as an athlete almost always knows when it is bad. She went to the training room and remembers her frustration poured out.
“I felt the pop, I don’t know if I heard it but I felt it,” Bueckers said. “I didn’t know how serious it was, but I knew it was serious.”
Over the coming days Bueckers moved from frustration to denial to acceptance of her torn left ACL and what will need to be done to get back on the court a year from now.
