UConn star Paige Bueckers injured her knee during a game against Villanova, raising concerns about a potential ACL tear. However, the injury appears to be less severe, a minor sprain, and she is expected to return to the court soon. Coach Auriemma jokingly expressed relief about Bueckers' absence from practice.
Bueckers chased after a loose ball in the third quarter when a Villanova player dove for the ball and crashed into the side of Bueckers' left leg (the same leg that she tore her ACL in back in August 2022). Bueckers, in clear pain, eventually limped off the court and into the locker room before returning to the bench shortly after and could be seen wiping tears out of her eyes. On Tuesday.
She seems to have suffered a relatively minor knee sprain, will likely miss a couple of games, and will be back on the court shortly. In fact, Auriemma was in such a good mood about this news that he cracked a joke about Bueckers not being able to practice. He later added, 'We banned her from practice. So she was in the training room, and she was looking in through the window, and that was it. 'For me, it was like Christmas Day,' Auriemma added. 'Everybody nodded their head yes when I said something, nobody rolled their eyes, nobody had their own team huddle and told the guys what to do that was quite different than what I said. She does things to get on my nerves because she knows it bugs me. So I didn't have to deal with that today.'While Auriemma would obviously want Bueckers at full health and back at practice, his joke did seem to contain some truth
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