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SAN ANTONIO Paige Bueckers swept all the national player of the year awards for which she was eligible, as she was announced the first freshman to win the Wooden Award for the country s most outstanding player Monday evening.
Bueckers previously won the USBWA s Ann Meyers Drysdale Award, the Naismith Trophy and the AP national player of the year. She was also the first freshman to take home those honors.
Freshmen are not eligible for the Wade Trophy, which was awarded to Baylor junior NaLyssa Smith.
Three other Huskies have won the Wooden Award a total of five times: Maya Moore (2009, 2011), Tina Charles (2010) and Breanna Stewart (2015, 2016).
UConn women s Paige Bueckers earns two additional honors
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UConn women s Paige Bueckers earns two additional honors
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Patrick Ewing, right, embraces Jamorko Pickett after winning the Big East Men s Basketball Tournament Credit: Georgetown Athletics
In the final stretch of his fourth season as head coach at Georgetown,
Patrick Ewing has silenced doubters and confirmed that he has the Georgetown men’s basketball team moving in the right direction. Georgetown won the Big East Tournament on Saturday in Madison Square Garden, crushing a top-25 Creighton team in the final, 73-48. Ewing’s team won four games in four days and appears to have completely shifted the narrative around the program.
“This year we started off slow. There’s a lot of people who wrote us off, but we kept on believing, kept on persevering,” Ewing said in a press conference Sunday.