During the 2025 WNBA Draft on Monday, April 14 in New York City, the Dallas Wings selected Bueckers, 23, with the first pick. The UConn Huskies star, who, alongside Azzi Fudd, led her team to the 2025 NCAA women's championship over Dawn Staley's South Carolina Gamecocks on April 7, wore black suit for her big night.

The Huskies star player has been going back and forth between Connecticut and New York doing morning and night time talk show appearances. Bueckers stopped by “The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon” and interrupted his monologue to let him hold the national championship trophy on Wednesday night.