USC Basketball: JuJu Watkins Adds Huge Milestone to Growing Accomplishments
For the second time this season, USC freshman JuJu Watkins has swept the Pac-12 Women's Basketball Performance Awards, winning both the Freshman of the Week and Player of the Week awards. Watkins is the first player in Pac-12 history to sweep both of these awards multiple times in a season, per USC Communications.
Watkins sweeps the weekly awards after scoring a combined 80 points in the Trojans' wins over Stanford and Cal. Her week was of course highlighted by her outrageous 51-point outing versus Stanford, which was the most points scored in school history, and the second-most points scored in a single game by a Pac-12 player.
Watkins also put up this stat line against No. 4 Stanford, which is the most against an AP Top 25 team over the last 25 years. Even the winningest coach in college basketball history was no match for Watkins.
Overall, this is the eleventh Freshman of the Week award for Watkins, with the star freshman winning the award all but two times this season. This is now the second Player of the Week award for Watkins after she previously won it when she scored a combined 60 points in Week 4.
All together, Watkins is having a freshman season for the ages, breaking school, conference, and NCAA records in the process. She's already broken the record for most 30-point games by a freshman in USC history, and now has the highest single-game point total in school history, despite other legends like Cheryl Miller and Lisa Leslie playing for the Trojans.
Watkins will get her next opportunity to add to her incredible freshman resumé when the Trojans take on Arizona State this Friday.
