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.

The Galen Center crowd 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 sign of growing support and interest.

The South Jersey-born star piled up ‪24 points, eight assists, six rebounds, and five steals to lead the Fighting Irish to a 74-61 win in the nationally televised showcase game.

USC coach Lindsay Gottlieb asked Iowa leaders how they handled Caitlin Clark's time in the spotlight as she supports Trojans star JuJu Watkins.

Southern California’s JuJu Watkins reached 1,000 career points in the second fewest amount of games in NCAA Division I history during the second half against Santa Clara.

It’s a massive matchup of undefeated top-10 teams featuring some of the sport’s biggest stars when the No. 6 Notre Dame Fighting Irish face off against JuJu Watkins and the No. 3 USC Trojans Saturday on NBC and Peacock.

The No. 6 Notre Dame women’s basketball team (4-0) has breezed through the first 2 ½ weeks of the season, annihilating opponents by an average of 47.5 points. It’s hard to know what’s more impressive about the Fighting Irish.

No. 3 USC will be hosting No. 6 Notre Dame on Saturday in a showdown featuring two of the nation's most exciting players. The game is set for 4 p.m. ET at Galen Center. Notre Dame has an 8-2 advantage in the series dating back to the 1984-85 season.