USC Women's Basketball: Lindsay Gottlieb Makes Pitch For NIL Support
At 10-0, your USC Trojans women's hoopers are considered one of the best teams in the country. Currently ranked by The Associated Press as the nation's sixth-best club, to be precise, Lindsay Gottlieb's stellar squad seems likely to surpass its Round of 64 elimination in the 2023 NCAA Tournament. Hopefully, it'll do far more than just get to the Round of 32.
Gottlieb took to her personal Twitter/X account, just in time for the holidays, to make an impassioned plea for NIL donations to the school's "premier collective for USC student-athletes," House of Victory, through the following missive:
Standout freshman wing JuJU Watkins is apparently the Trojans' top earner, raking in an estimated $199K via her NIL earnings, per On3's projections.
The 6'2" Southern California native, a five-star recruit out of Sierra Canyon School in Chatsworth, is currently the 10-0 club's leading scorer, notching 26.8 points on .494/.469/.750 shooting splits, 6.9 rebounds, 3.9 assists, 2.6 steals and 1.4 blocks a night.
In her two seasons-and-change with USC thus far, Gottlieb has led the program to a 43-26 record. Last year's March Madness berth was her first appearance in the Big Dance with the Trojans (she's made eight other appearances while coaching UC Santa Barbara and the California Golden Bears), but it certainly feels like it's the first of many.
