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JUJU WATKINS AND THE NO. 6 USC TROJANS
There are great performances and great wins. Then there are all-time performances and all-time wins, like the one JuJu Watkins and No. 6 USC delivered Thursday night, toppling previously unbeaten No. 1 UCLA, 71-60.
This was a marvelous team effort, but Watkins’ performance is among the best individual efforts in the history of the sport: 38 points, 11 rebounds, eight blocks, five assists, six 3-pointers. You name it, she did it. And she dominated.
- Watkins is the only Division I player — men’s or women’s — in at least the past 20 seasons with 35 points, 10 rebounds, eight blocks & five 3-pointers in a game.
- No one in the NBA has ever posted such a stat line.
- The 38 points are the second-most by a Division I women’s player against a No. 1 team in at least the past 20 seasons. Caitlin Clark had 41 against South Carolina in the 2023 Final Four.
- USC had been 1-10 all-time vs. No. 1, with its only such win coming over Louisiana Tech in the 1983…
