Juju Watkins transcends sports - men’s or women’s. The presumed National Player of the Year was on her way to a National Championship run when she went down in the first quarter of USC’s game against Mississippi State Monday Night. Hours later, it was announced she suffered an ACL tear in her right leg and will undergo surgery.
It is a devastating thing to come to terms with for the women’s basketball community. Watkins averaged 23.9 points per game in her sophomore season at Southern California. She helped her team beat UConn once and UCLA twice, winning a Big-10 regular season championship and making it to the Big-10 championship game.