“Oh, my God!” Auriemma said. “She’s a whiner, but she has a right to whine. She gets hits … People don’t believe me from out of town. When you watch how she’s officiated relative to how other people are officiated and her star power, people get away with murder against her.

“That’s why I lose my mind. A bump that’s a foul on her is not a foul on someone else because that’s Paige Bueckers and she’ll score anyway. You get hit, you get hit. No. I’ve said this, she’s probably the most mis-officiated great player in America today in terms of getting the benefit of the doubt some times.”

Bueckers drew eight fouls against Jackson State, twice in the act of shooting and once after scoring a basket.

But more than once Saturday she took a hit inside and turned to the referees — official Chastity Taylor seemed to be the most common target — with her arms outstretched looking for a call.