USC Women's Basketball: JuJu Watkins Nominated For Prestigious Award

And for good reason!

Superstar USC Women of Troy freshman wing JuJu Watkins has made the Ann Meyers Drysdale Award Top 10 list, an honor reserved for the best collegiate shooting guard in the nation, a USC press statement has revealed.

Essentially, this makes the 6'2" Sierra Canyon School product a midseason finalist for the award. 

The second-best scorer in the nation behind Iowa's Caitlin Clark, Watkins has already been named the Pac-12 Freshman of the Week a record ten times, and it's still just January. She's also on the Naismith Trophy and John R. Wooden Award watch lists, honoring the best player in the college game.

Watkins is already the best player on a 13-3 Trojans team that has been a consistent presence in the upper echelon of The Associated Press' pundit poll tallying the best programs in the nation. 

She's averaging 26.1 points on .438/.349/.830 shooting splits, seven rebounds and 3.4 assists a night, and has logged six 30+ point games, establishing a new program record for a USC freshman. Given that this is one of the more storied teams in women's college hoops, one that has boasted such Hall of Fame freshmen as Cheryl Miller and Lisa Leslie in the pastt.