Paige Bueckers had a perfect quote about the controversial moving screen call from the end of UConn's Final Four loss to Iowa.
robbed herself of a chance to give the UConn Huskies the lead late in the Final Four loss to Iowa on Friday night at the Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse in Ohio.
It would be easy for Bueckers, who had an open shot coming off of an Aaliyah Edwards screen before the whistle blew with just four seconds left in the game, to But that's not the attitude that the UConn star took into her postgame press conference. Quite the opposite. Bueckers took the high road, blaming mistakes she made prior to the foul call that were too much for the Huskies to overcome.
"Everybody can make a big deal of that one single play, but not one single play wins a basketball game or loses a basketball game. I feel like there were a lot of mistakes that I made that could've prevented that play from even being that big.""Everybody can make a big deal of that one single play, but not one single play wins a basketball game or loses a basketball game.
Bueckers, who scored just 17 points-her lowest output of the NCAA Tournament-decided to take responsibility for the loss, regardless of whether she believes the correct call was made.Coby White is set to return and says he dodged a bullet in a nasty fall vs. the Indiana Pacers
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