USC Women's Basketball: Rayah Marshall Climbs Up Trojans Leaderboard In This Stat
USC Trojans women's basketball freshman wing JuJu Watkins may be the talk of Galen Center, but she's not the only standout star on this 12-1 roster.
6'4" junior center/forward Rayah Marshall looks to be well on her way to another All-Pac-12 accolade. She's been the club's defensive fulcrum.
To wit, Marshall finds herself climbing up the USC leaderboards with an historic stat. Per the club's official Twitter/X account, her two blocks recorded during the Cardinal and Gold's narrow 56-54 victory over the Oregon State Beavers on Thursday helped her leap ahead of Paula McGee's 190 total rejections into a solo third place in school history.
Marshall added another four blocks in USC's 68-54 win over the Oregon Ducks on Sunday, bringing her total to 195 on the year. Marshall now only trails Hall of Famers Cheryl Miller (320 blocks) and Lisa Leslie (321). In fairness, Marshall has at least another season-and-a-half to catch them!
On the year, the Los Angeles native is averaging 13 points on 51.3% shooting from the floor and 71.1% shooting from the foul line, along with 10.5 rebounds (good for 21st-best in the country), 2.4 blocks 1.7 dimes (against 1.5 turnovers), and 1.1 steals.
The ninth-ranked Trojans will next square off against the only team that's beaten them thus far this season, the undefeated (14-0) UCLA Bruins, whom they'll host on Sunday.