Paige, Juju and an Exciting New Chapter for Women’s College Basketball

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🗓️ 22 November 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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This weekend, two top-ten women’s college basketball teams — the USC Trojans and the Notre Dame Fighting Irish — face off in Los Angeles. It will be a battle between two of the league’s biggest stars, USC’s Juju Watkins and Notre Dame’s Hannah Hidalgo. Another player to watch coming this season is UConn’s Paige Bueckers, but you already know that because she has been the player to watch since she was in middle school. All three of these stars are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to a fresh new season of women’s college basketball unburdened from the discourse that dominated last season. Elle Duncan joins us to explain how the wave of excitement from last season shows no signs of stopping this year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The reason that this has not kaboomed, the way we're seeing it now, isn't because people
0:09.6	don't like women's basketball.
0:10.9	Right.
0:11.6	Like, how many times would you hear 10 years ago, like, nobody goes to those games?
0:16.1	And then I'm like, well, that's weird, because I was just in the finals and it was sold out.
0:20.0	Like, we were the butt of the joke on SNL skits.
0:21.9	Yeah.
0:22.3	We weren't cool just yet.
0:24.2	And Paige to me marked this moment of coolness.
0:27.6	Elle Duncan, and to be clear, I did not write these kind words.
0:31.4	I know you better than this because you're like my ratchet cousin.
0:34.3	We'll get together at the family reunion.
0:36.1	Things go awry. But anyway, the face of sports center, a member of the most charming basketball trio on
0:41.8	the planet.
0:42.4	And of course, host of the L. Duncan podcast, we just heard a clip of Sue Bird talking about
0:47.7	Paige Beckers at the top of the show.
0:49.3	I have a question for you, Elle.
0:50.6	Yeah.
0:50.9	Do you remember the first time you heard of or saw Page Beck?
0:56.5	Yeah.
0:56.8	So all of us in sports, we have like those friends that are just like really in the weeds on
1:01.9	sports.
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