Lieberman Award: "My queen deserves it": College hoops fans buzz as UConn’s Paige Bueckers becomes top-10 candidate for 2025 Lieberman Award

"My queen deserves it": College hoops fans buzz as UConn’s Paige Bueckers becomes top-10 candidate for 2025 Lieberman Award

By Lindsey Ware

Modified Feb 03, 2025 20:34 GMT

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UConn Women's Basketball took to IG to share the news that Paige Bueckers is a top-10 candidate for the 2025 Lieberman Award, given to the nation's top point guard. Bueckers became the first freshman to receive the award back in 2021. Huskies fans were very excited that the senior is up for the award again, commenting:

"YES MA’AM 🔥 our girl is putting in that work. We love ya, Paige ❤️

"Top 10 and not 10. That’s our girl👏🏼👏🏼"

"My queen deserves it."

However, some fans were critical of Buecker's performance this season and how she is being utilized for No. 5 UConn.

"Would be nice if she was actually playing the point more but idk."

"GOAT! Please tell Geno to actually use her as such! She needs to play more on ball 😩"

Other fans let emojis do the talking for them as they showed their support for the senior guard.

"🐐🌎✨⭐✨"

"🔥🔥🔥"

Fans comment on UConn Women's Basketball's IG post about Paige Bueckers becoming top-10 candidate for 2025 Lieberman Award

Paige Bueckers finishing college career strong

Bueckers has changed the game for women's college basketball. The Minnesota native was the No. 1 recruit in her high school class. She showed up to UConn and instantly lived up to the hype, becoming the first-ever freshman to win the Lieberman Award.

The award came after a season in which she made 28 starts, averaging 20 points per game with a 46.4% three-point percentage. The freshman guard was also named Women's College Basketball Player of the Year.

Now, Paige Bueckers looks to bring things full circle with another Lieberman Award in her senior season. In the 2024-25 season thus far, she has a career-high-tying 54.4% field goal percentage and has brought her turnovers down to a career-low 1.3 per game. She is leading the Huskies in her senior season and continuing her dominance on the court, and her candidacy for a second Lieberman Award shows just that.

About the author

Lindsey Ware is a college sports journalist at Sportskeeda with over five years of experience working with publications such as The News & Observer, The Daily Tar Heel, Triangle Tribune and Cardiac Cane. She has also worked for Major League Baseball, The Holly Springs Salamanders, The Tri-City Chili Peppers, Tuffy Talk, Super Meteors Basketball, Just Good Network and Living Sport.

Lindsey has a Bachelor’s Degree in Media and Journalism from UNC Chapel Hill. Her education allowed Lindsey to gain experience in sports communication, which she honed in internships. Other than being a storyteller and sports fanatic, Lindsey is also a social media and marketing specialist.

Her favorite college team is UNC, although she grew up a N.C. State fan as both of her parents are Wolfpack alumni. Michael Jordan was a huge deal in North Carolina when Lindsey was growing up, and after a summer spent at UNC’s Sports Journalism Camp back in high school, Lindsey was set on being a Tar Heel.

Lindsey's favorite college coach of all time is Roy Williams. During her time attending UNC Chapel Hill and writing for The Daily Tar Heel, Lindsey was lucky enough to meet and speak with Williams a few times. He was like a celebrity on UNC’s campus and was beloved for his coaching style and success with the Tar Heels, accumulating three NCAA championship titles in 18 years.

When not watching or writing about sports, Lindsey enjoys reading, trying new restaurants and coffee shops, and spending time with my friends, family and dog. She also likes to journal, watch movies and paint.

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