With lucrative NIL deals and championships to chase, the biggest names in the NCAA have something to think about being turning professional<\/p>\n
On UConn\u2019s senior night in February 2024, inside a packed Gampel Pavilion, Paige Bueckers <\/a>took the mic. \u201cI know everybody wants me to address the elephant in the room,\u201d she told the crowd. \u201cUnfortunately, this will not be my last senior night here at UConn.\u201d With that, she confirmed her decision to return for a fifth and final year with the Huskies.<\/p>\n Bueckers\u2019 extended eligibility comes from NCAA rules that grant student-athletes five years to compete in four seasons, with an additional year for those who played in 2020-21 due to the Covid-19 waiver. And a 2022 injury that led to a redshirt year gave Bueckers yet another season. While many speculate she stayed for lucrative NIL deals \u2013 estimated at around $1.5m this season<\/a> \u2013 Bueckers insists her decision is rooted in loyalty to UConn, her teammates, and her coaches. \u201cFamily camaraderie, loving it here, loving my teammates, and loving my coaches,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With lucrative NIL deals and championships to chase, the biggest names in the NCAA have something to think about being turning professional On UConn\u2019s senior night in February 2024, inside a packed Gampel Pavilion, Paige Bueckers took the mic. \u201cI know everybody wants me to address the elephant in the room,\u201d she told the crowd. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}