NCAAB fans react to UConn star Paige Bueckers' school pic and ambition note: "Bro loves to basketball" "Media's next white hope"

UConn Huskies star Paige Bueckers continued her busy off-season with a stylish appearance at the 2024 ESPYs in Los Angeles, where she rocked a custom KidSuper purple suit with white Jimmy Choo loafers.

Bueckers has had a surge in popularity over the summer due to her bubbly nature, which showed itself during both her graduation and the 2024 WNBA draft, where she attended to support her former teammates.

On Saturday, the "Overtime WBB" Instagram page shared doodles from when the UConn star was five years old and detailed her ambitions for the future.

"Paige knew who she was from a very early age," Overtime WBB captioned the image.

The material in the doodles read:

"This is Paige. Paige is 5 years old. Paige has blue eyes. Paige likes to basketball," the Huskies star wrote.

College basketball fans reacted to the Huskies superstar's cute doodle in the comment section of the post.

"Bro loves to basketball," a fan wrote.

"Media's next white hope," a fan commented.

Overtime's IG comment section

Overtime's IG comment section

Paige Bueckers was a star in high school

UConn Huskies star Paige Bueckers was a multi-sport athlete for most of her life before college, starring in baseball, basketball and soccer for Hopkins High School before committing to coach Geno Auriemma's program.

In 2019, during an interview with The Athletic, ESPN analyst Kara Lawson, who also coaches the Duke Blue Devils, put Bueckers on a pedestal when it came to high school hoops.

“Those few are the legends, right?” Lawson said. “Those are the really, really great players. I don’t say that to put pressure on Paige, I say that to let you know at this stage of her development she’s in a small subset that most players who play the game never come close to.”

To showcase her popularity, Paige Bueckers was the first female basketball player to grace the cover of the popular hoops magazine "SLAM" while still in high school.

The pressure was on Bueckers to perform from the beginning with the attention she was getting.

“When I’m doing something I want to be the best at it that I can,” Bueckers said. “Whenever I’m not doing anything I’ll probably study the game or go to the gym. It’s just like, everyone’s chasing after me if I’m at the top, but the top isn’t enough for me, I just want to be the best ever, be the best Paige that I can be. I know I can never reach perfection but I’m always aiming for it, so I always have something to do.”

She has since established herself as perhaps the best basketball player of her age, bar perhaps only the other-worldly Caitlin Clark, which is no slight, but Paige Bueckers is not yet done scaling new heights.