USC star JuJu Watkins back on the court ahead of Trojans' 50th season
LOS ANGELES — The sound in the Galen Center classroom barely grew louder than a whisper during the 4-plus minutes after USC women’s basketball coach Lindsay Gottlieb wrapped up her first media availability of the summer.
But when USC star JuJu Watkins entered the room, the only noise was the clicks and beeps of cameras – the approximately 20 media members on hand had their eyes, and often their smartphones, glued to the redshirt junior guard.
Gottlieb, Watkins, Kennedy Smith, Jazzy Davidson and five-star recruit Saniyah Hall each spoke to the media on Monday, representing the program ahead of its 50th season and following a 2025-2026 campaign that ended with a second-round loss to No. 1 seed South Carolina in the NCAA Tournament.
The Trojans finished ninth in the Big Ten last season and were a No. 9 seed for the NCAA Tournament without Watkins, who was a medical redshirt what would have been her junior season after tearing her ACL on March 24, 2025.
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