Paige Bueckers is back in Connecticut like she never left! Making TikToks with her ex-teammates, running drills with the Huskies, albeit from the other side as part of the practice squad, and, of course, trading playful jabs with her former head coach. T he moment she reunited with Geno Auriemma on stage, the first thing he said to her was, “Who pairs white socks with black shoes?”

Well, that right there summed up the whole Geno–Paige relationship. The back-and-forth kept rolling all night, and eventually Geno got real about one of the things he both loves and agonizes over in Paige: her, uh, delightful delusion!

Geno went way back and laid it out. “After all those losses, we would go back as a coaching and me personally I would go….This did not hurt enough. I could tell on Paige’s f

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