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USC lost Juju Watkins for the rest of the tournament due to a knee injury looks like a torn ACL.

And this is when the sport loses.

There are times when there's injuries, but then there's injuries

that hurt the entire sport. When Tiger was out, you know, for a variety of reasons, or had

surgeries or the car accident, like the sport is hurt. Brady, when he blew out his knee, or maybe

Peyton Manning when he had neck surgery, the entire sport loses.

And that was the case last night for Juju Watkins because if you look at the chain of

command, Paige Becker's was the national player of the year in high school.

Caitlin Clark was in that same class.

But this was Paige Becker's as the national player of the years of freshman.

And then all of a sudden she had a couple of knee surgeries.

Then that paved the way for Caitlin Clark to take the baton.

And for the next three years, she was the face of college basketball.

And then you had Juju Watkins last year who was starting to become the face of college basketball. And then you had Juju Watkins last year who was starting to become the face of

college basketball. She is the face of college basketball right now. You can't watch the tournaments

without seeing her on a variety of commercials there. In fact, after she got injured, they go to a commercial

break and it's a Nike commercial featuring her.

She's going to be in college basketball for the next couple of years.

You have to wait until you're a senior to go to the WNBA.

You have built-in stars.

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