UConn star Paige Bueckers' lack of popularity in tourney has racial component to it, ex-NBA player suggests

UConn Huskies women’s basketball star Paige Bueckers has performed at a high level during the NCAA Tournament and most recently scored 40 points in a Sweet 16 game against Oklahoma.

Anyone who had been following Bueckers since the beginning of her collegiate career knows that games like the one against the Sooners were par for the course. She dropped 34 points against South Dakota State in the second round as well.

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But her popularity has yet to skyrocket like Caitlin Clark’s when the sharpshooter was winning games at Iowa and setting NCAA records in scoring. Former NBA center Etan Thomas suggested in a column for

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