A lot of people were surprised when Azzi Fudd sat out the 2025 WNBA Draft earlier this year. Fudd is one of the most well-known players at UConn, and many believed she would follow her teammate Paige Bueckeres into the WNBA. But Fudd, who tore her right ACL and meniscus in 2023, had the option to play in college for one more season and she took it — and it's definitely starting to look like she absolutely made the right call.
While everyone's attention is split between all of the dominant NCAA teams right now, Fudd is quietly on the brink of making men's and women's college basketball history. Her shooting is so good right now — she's less than 1% from shooting a 50/50/100 split — that she could become the first player since Tony Snell to shoot, well, perfectly.
A quick glance at Fudd's stats tells the story: her free throw percentage is 100%. She's shooting field goals at 49.6%, and her three-point percentage is 53.4%.
Why Azzi Fudd didn't enter the 2025 WNBA Draft
Fudd has since explained she opted against being drafted this year because she felt that there was still more she could accomplish in college, and knew that she had more development to go through. Fudd only played 42 games during her first three seasons at UConn due to injury, and making the decision to get more experience at the NCAA level was the right call.
Fudd enjoyed an electric performance at the NCAA tournament this season, and was a key part of the reason the Huskies ultimately walked away with the Championship. She and coach Geno Auriemma were having rolling conversations about the draft, and Auriemma later told ESPN exactly what the pair were discussing.
"And through all these question-and-answers that we asked, that I asked, she said, 'I'm not ready,'" coach Geno Auriemma told ESPN (via Yahoo). "'I haven't played enough basketball to feel confident about going there and playing at the highest level.' ...The key for this season is having the Final Four Azzi be consistently there for five months."
Azzi Fudd isn't the only college player shooting well
While Fudd's stats are wildly impressive, what's possibly even more so is that multiple players are shooting almost as well as she is right now. Nebraska Huskers guard Britt Prince is clocking a field goal percentage of 69.3%, a three-point percentage of 58.8%, but her free throw percentage is 83.3. Still, those are intense stats, and watching both players as they navigate the rest of the 2025-26 season will be a treat for Huskies and Huskers fans.