JuJu Watkins said she didn’t know what to expect during her first NCAA tournament game. But USC knows exactly what to expect from its star freshman.
Watkins finished with 23 points, five rebounds and four blocks in an 87-55 rout of 16th-seeded Texas A&M Corpus Christi in the first round of the NCAA tournament on Saturday at Galen Center. In her NCAA tournament debut, Watkins broke Cheryl Miller’s USC single-season scoring record the Hall of Famer set in 1986. With 833 total points, Watkins now ranks third in NCAA history for scoring by a freshman, trailing Ohio State’s Kelsey Mitchell (873 points) and San Diego State’s Tina Hutchinson (898).