JuJu Watkins is college basketball's coolest player, with skills that could make her the sport's next Caitlin Clark and raise USC to championship heights.
On her first possession of her first game in her first dance, Judea Skies Watkins lost the ball. She dribbled directly into the hands of the Texas A&M Corpus Christi defense. She froze. She glared. She winced. You know what that means. It’s JuJu Time. The coolest collegiate women’s basketball player on the planet routinely produces plays so picturesque, every smudge is briefly met with a pained annoyance that inspires her to retrieve the brush and swirl anew.
“There’s 31 games behind us that show people that she’s the ‘now’ for women’s basketball,” Gottlieb said last week. “I think any time she has an opportunity to play, she realizes what goes along with being JuJu, that there are a lot of eyes on her, I don’t know that this is necessarily different in that sense, but I do think probably a broader audience will see her and she just needs to be her and we just need to be us as a team.
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