STORRS, Conn. — Azzi Fudd’s stomach dropped as soon as Paige Bueckers called and told her the news in early August. The UConn star point guard had torn the ACL in her left knee.
“I got this sick feeling,” Fudd said. “I kind of think Paige is invincible sometimes, so I never thought that would happen. … It was kind of just a sad moment knowing what she was gonna have to go through and just how long and tedious this process is.”
Isuneh “Ice” Brady, Amari DeBerry, Caroline Ducharme and Aubrey Griffin were on the court with Bueckers when she suffered the injury in a pickup game. Bueckers went back to the training room after feeling a pop when she came down awkwardly from a layup attempt. Ducharme and DeBerry drove her to get the MRI that evening. That’s when Bueckers found out she’d have to spend her junior season watching the Huskies from the sidelines.
