The Galen Center’s crowd palpably buzzed as JuJu Watkins collected the opening tip-off. It was a sign of USC women’s basketball coach Lindsay Gottlieb’s program-rebuilding success, turning the Trojans back into a national championship contender — a ...

Nearly all the talk around NCAA women's basketball thus far has surrounded UConn's Paige Bueckers and USC's JuJu Watkins. Bueckers is of course the presumptive number one pick in the upcoming WNBA Draft and Watkins has been hyped as the closest thing to Caitlin Clark.

Hannah Hidalgo scored 24 points and No. 6 Notre Dame defeated JuJu Watkins and third-ranked Southern California 74-61 in a marquee matchup on the West Coast.