The 2001 graduate of The Masters College averaged 9.1 minutes per game in the Monarchs championship season a year ago. She is averaging more than double that this season, 20.1 minutes per game. She was inserted into the starting lineup last week and delivered in a major way.

Last Thursday at home against the Lynx, Buescher had a career night, getting her first start of the season and scoring 25 points and grabbing nine rebounds in 27 minutes of action in a 87-78 win. Both were career-highs. She followed that up with her first double-double of the season on Saturday in a 65-57 win in Charlotte. Her 13 points and 13 rebounds came in 34 minutes of action. A night later, on Sunday, even though Sacramento fell in Houston, the victims of a back-to-back on the road, Buescher tallied 12 points and 6 rebounds.

Whereas she had not been a blip on the statistical radar in the past, she ranks sixth in the WNBA in Field-Goal Percentage (0.534), tenth overall with 59 free throws made, seventh with 84 free throw attempts. She has also been a force on the boards, ranking third in the WNBA in Offensive Rebounds and even falls in the top 20 in blocks.