Dallas Wings select Paige Bueckers No. 1 overall in WNBA Draft

Get ready, WNBA fans. Paige Bueckers is officially on her way to Dallas. The Wings made sure of that when they selected the UConn star with the first overall pick to tip-off the 2025 WNBA Draft.

Bueckers, 23, now gets ready for her first professional season after capping off her collegiate career in emphatic fashion with a national championship last Sunday. The three-time first-team All-American (all unanimous selections) put up 17 points, six rebounds, three assists, a steal and two blocks as she captured her lone national title in a blowout win over South Carolina. The Hopkins, Minn.



native averaged 19.9 points (tied-24th overall in Division I), 4.4 rebounds and 4.

9 assists through 38 games as a senior. Bueckers' selection into the WNBA punctuates her triumphant return from a host of injuries early in her NCAA career. After a stellar freshman campaign — averaging 20.

0 points, 4.9 rebounds, 5.7 assists and 2.

4 steals to win 2021 Naismith College Player of the Year — she missed a majority of her sophomore year due to a tibial fracture and then all of the 2022-23 season because of an ACL tear. Since returning, however, Bueckers has played in every game with the Huskies through the last two seasons. Besides a national title, her collegiate resume now also includes the 2025 Wade trophy (presented to the best upperclass women’s DI player), three Big East First-team selections and three Big East tournament Most Outstanding Player nods.

Bueckers also took home the Nancy Lieberman award in 2025 — her second time winning it — as she was recognized as the top point guard in all of DI women’s basketball. She’ll now get to star in the Wings’ backcourt alongside four-time all-star and three-time all-WNBAer Arike Ogunbowale. Dallas went 10-24 in 2024, tied for the second-fewest wins in the league, as they finished last place in the Western Conference.

The first round of the 2025 WNBA Draft will feature 12 picks, with 13 in each of the final two rounds. After Dallas makes its pick, the Seattle Storm hold the No. 2 selection overall.

The Washington Mystics, with a new coach and general manager, control the direction of the draft after that with the third, fourth and sixth pick. More to come..