USC Women's Basketball: JuJu Watkins Ties 4-Decade Cheryl Miller Record

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USC Women's Basketball: JuJu Watkins Ties 4-Decade Cheryl Miller Record
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Following a 33-point outburst over the Oregon Ducks in the midst of an 88-51 road victory, superstar USC Women of Troy freshman shooting guard JuJu Watkins tied a four-decade school record for prolific scoring.

Watkins, a 6'2" wing out of Sierra Canyon School in Chatsworth, has matched Hall of Fame former USC small forward Cheryl Miller's tally of ten 30+ point games in a single Trojans season. 

On the year, she's averaging 28 points on .432/.348/.855 shooting splits, seven rebounds, 3.5 dimes, 2.7 steals and 1.6 blocks a night.

Watkins' 33 points arrived on 12-of-25 shooting from the field and  6-of-7 shooting from the foul line. She also chipped in eight rebounds, three assists, four steals and a block.

With the Oregon win, the Trojans improve to a 19-4 record on the 2023-24 season (10-4 in the Pac-12 Conference) with the victory, their fifth straight. Currently the No. 10-ranked team in the country, Lindsay Gottlieb's club seems poised to outflank USC's 2022-23 NCAA Tournament finish, a 62-57 overtime loss to the South Dakota State Jackrabbits last spring.

Miller, a 6'2" small forward with the Trojans from 1982-86, won two NCAA titles with the program while being thrice named the Naismith Player of the Year during her run.


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Alex Kirschenbaum
ALEX KIRSCHENBAUM

Tell Alex, were you in the joint the night Wilt scored 100 points? Or when the Celtics won titles back-to-back and didn't give nobody no kind of slack?