Paige Bueckers is already the best player in college basketball according to Diana Taurasi

This is some really high praise.

Paige Bueckers has been getting high praise from every direction all season long at UConn and it’s well deserved.

But none of it quite holds as much weight as the latest she just got from an all-time great. Diana Taurasi has already stamped Bueckers as the best player in college basketball in a new video from TOGETHXR.

That might sound like hyperbole, but she’s not wrong. She’s one of the best basketball players we’ve seen grace a floor.

She’s averaging 19.9 points per game on 54% shooting from the field and 47% shooting from 3-point range. She also averages 6 assists per game and somehow sticks out on a stacked UConn team.

Taurasi explained it herself.

“The first game I watched her play, I watched the first quarter and I told Penny [Taylor] and I text coach [Geno] Auriemma and I said ‘she’s the best player in basketball already.’For the simpel fact is she can pass. She makes really hard passes look really easy and she makes really easy passes look easy. And that alone sets her apart,”

She also compared Paige to herself in college and she thinks Bueckers already has more confidence.

“Oh, Freshman Paige has way more confidence than I did. I was in the doghouse. I was like the water girl. I was doing chores for the seniors. We were in way different boats…But, Paige, the level she’s playing at right now as a freshman. It’s incredible. You don’t play that efficiently and with that much confidence as a rookie as a freshman at Connecticut. 

Well said. Straight from the GOAT herself. And the best part is we’ll get to see Paige’s skill again on Saturday during her Sweet 16 matchup against Caitlin Clark and Iowa.

This is going to be a great one.