Coming off a triumphant Pac-12 Tournament win in Las Vegas, the Trojans will face Texas A&M Corpus Christi in the second round of the NCAA Tournament March 24.
USC’s India Otto hugs Aaliyah Gayles while teammates McKenzie Forbes, JuJu Watkins and Rayah Marshall celebrate during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game in the championship of the Pac-12 tournament Sunday, March 10, 2024, in Las Vegas. LOS ANGELES – Sometimes, across the past couple of months, Rayah Marshall and Lindsay Gottlieb would walk into a Pac-12 arena and take a moment to realize just how far they’d come.UCLA. Washington State. Colorado.
It was an emotional Sunday afternoon, a slew of program alumni grouped around and filming the team, sitting in a row of chairs and fixated intently on a TV screen showing ESPN’s Selection Sunday coverage. Coach Lindsay Gottlieb, who said in a speech to the room that she was nervous on her drive over to Galen, stood and gripped the back of Rayah Marshall’s seat intently. Freshman JuJu Watkins’ legs bounced with nerves.
The stage is set, too, for JuJu Watkins to truly ascend as the next face of collegiate women’s basketball, after a captivating freshman season averaging 27.0 points per game and drawing ever-increasing crowds to Galen. As viral as Watkins has become on social media, her scoring explosions piling up hundreds of thousands of views, the majority of USC’s games have still been confined to the Pac-12 Network.
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