when the UConn women’s basketball team played in an eerily empty Gampel Pavilion with no fans. “I remember the fake crowd noise, the cardboard cutouts (of fans),” Bueckers said.

University of Houston fans waved red and white pom poms high as the Cougars boarded the bus Wednesday for the NCAA Men’s Final Four in San Antonio. Toddlers sat on their parents’ shoulders. Students ...

It’s something the Huskies star hasn’t truly done yet — she was recovering from an ACL tear two years ago, and Thompson-Boling Arena was full of cardboard cutouts in 2021 due to the pandemic.