USC’s JuJu Watkins is Inevitable

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🗓️ 23 February 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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There are more household names in women’s basketball than ever before, and another star is shooting her way to the top of the list. USC’s freshman phenom JuJu Watkins has been turning heads since the moment the season tipped off, dropping 32 points in her first collegiate game to upset current No. 2 Ohio State. And since then, she hasn’t let up, posting 30 or more points in 9 other games, culminating in a 51-point explosion in another upset over Stanford. So as the No. 7 Trojans stare down two top 20 matchups this weekend, Alexa Philippou is here to explain what has fueled the rise of JuJu. And how, despite the stiff competition, she may ultimately go down as the best of her generation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Alexa Philipu, tell us where you were at on the night of February 2nd.
0:05.0	I was at Stanford University, my alma mater, and went to go see Stanford take on the visiting USC Trojans.
0:15.0	Tonight, a top 15 matchup as the number four Cardinal,
0:19.0	welcome the 15th ranked woman of Troy.
0:23.0	I went thinking, maybe Stanford was favored to win.
0:27.7	Stanford obviously is a perennial power in the pack 12
0:31.0	and USC was coming off a really tough stretch themselves and instead I saw history. Watkins, we'll try to answer.
0:44.0	Retaliation is a must.
0:47.0	Juju Watkins, the star phenom from USC,
0:52.0	went on a tear.
0:53.2	Walking from the free throw.
0:54.4	Juju, Rock and!
0:58.6	The score was tied at the half.
1:00.6	She came out and in the third quarter scored 12 straight points for USC.
1:04.5	Geechoo, attacking Bayside.
1:07.5	They up good.
1:08.5	You try to buy her.
1:09.1	She just kind of gives you a little push off.
1:10.9	She had this transition three at this one point that put the Trojans up by 8 midway through the third.
1:17.0	Murmers here inside of Maple Pavilion.
1:20.0	Watkins, pull up the road, get out of town. You two, what? and at that point the Stanford crowd was just ooing an
1:27.4	eyeing at her. They've witnessed the Juju Watkins show for the majority of
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