USC had lost three of their last four games headed into a road clash with Stanford, which is just about as tough as it gets. Someone forgot to tell JuJu Watkins.
The freshman sensation dropped jaws with a 51-point explosion that was the most by any D-I women’s player in nearly two years and a huge jolt to USC’s NCAA Tournament resume. Other Trojans combined for 16 points on 7-of-38 from the field, but it didn’t matter in a nine-point victory
That nearly wasn’t the only 50-point game of the week. Iowa’s Hannah Stuelke combined scoring prowess with mesmerizing efficiency against Penn State on Thursday, finishing with 47 points on 17-20 FG for the current No. 1 seed Hawkeyes.
With all that scoring, Geno Auriemma recording his 1,200th career win Wednesday against Seton Hall may have gone slightly under the radar. He joins Tara VanDerveer (1,206 and counting) and Mike Krzyzewski (1,202) as the only D-I basketball coaches (women’s or men’s) to reach that mark and could pass Coach K as quickly as next Friday.
However, that would have to start with a win against South Carolina, a team that hasn’t lost a regular season game (not including conference tournaments) since…December 2021. As they say, no…
