After UConn women’s basketball took three days off following its Big East Tournament championship, head coach Geno Auriemma said on Sunday that Paige Bueckers “looks really good” in practice.
Andrea Hudy, the team’s director of sports performance, has tracked each player’s measurables throughout the season. Looking strictly at those numbers, Bueckers is fully recovered — at least physically.
“[Bueckers is] at the same levels that she was at before the surgery,” Auriemma said. “So that’s a great sign.”
That doesn’t mean she’ll look like the National Player of the Year in UConn’s NCAA Tournament opener against Mercer, though.