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How Azzi Fudd’s injury impacts UConn and the 2022-23 women’s college basketball season

UConn sophomore Azzi Fudd is expected to miss three to six weeks with a right knee injury she suffered in the first quarter of the Huskies’ loss to Notre Dame on Sunday.

The news, released Tuesday by UConn, felt like a nightmarish bout of déjà vu to Huskies enthusiasts who have watched UConn get decimated by injuries over the past 12 months, and have now witnessed serious knee injuries to Paige Bueckers and Fudd almost a year apart against the same team. Once again, Bueckers, the 2020-21 national player of the year, and Fudd, whose scoring outbursts against multiple top-10 teams this season put her name into the early conversation for the 2022-23 award, will share the bench together just as they did for nine games last year when both were out (knee and foot injuries, respectively). Read More

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