USC freshman JuJu Watkins has taken the school basketball world by storm. Her productive season has propelled the Trojans ladies’s basketball staff to almost the highest of the school basketball ranks.
Watkins is among the many rising record of stars in ladies’s school basketball that’s headlined by upperclassmen equivalent to Iowa’s Caitlin Clark, LSU’s Angel Reese, and UConn’s Paige Bueckers.
Watkins earned nationwide participant of the 12 months honors on a number of events throughout her spectacular run as a California highschool basketball participant. Her talents on the basketball court docket have seamlessly transferred to the school basketball stage.
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Watkins broke practically each USC ladies’s basketball file this season throughout her rise to stardom.
The Trojans completed the season robust, profitable 12 of their final 13 video games, and are making ready for Saturday’s first spherical NCAA Division I ladies’s basketball event sport towards Texas A&M College–Corpus Christi.
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USC basketball legend Cheryl Miller has been a fixture at USC video games this season. The Trojans resurgent season has attracted a number of music stars, actors {and professional} athletes, from Kevin Hart to LeBron James.
As the beginning of March Insanity looms for USC, Miller inspired Watkins to take a while to discover a approach to keep away from “psychological fatigue.”
“I need you to search out that quiet house the place nobody else [is], the place it’s your time to exhale…I’m not apprehensive concerning the bodily. You’re a younger child, and also you’re going to proceed to develop into your physique,” Miller instructed Watkins throughout a sit down with Andscape. “However it’s the psychological fatigue that I fear from you. It’s not a basketball…It’s the enterprise facet. That’s what I would like from you, to search out that quiet house.”
USC enters the NCAA event because the No. 1 seed within the Portland 3 Area. The Trojans haven’t superior to the Remaining 4 since 1986 — Miller’s senior season.
Watkins averaged 27 factors, 7.2 rebounds and three.2 assists per sport through the common season. Clark, the NCAA Division I all-time main scorer throughout males’s and girls’s basketball, is the one participant to common extra factors than Watkins this season.
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