India Otto heard the chants before she got the call.
“We want Otto!” the Galen Center crowd started yelling. “We want Otto!”
With less than two minutes to go in USC’s opening game of the NCAA tournament on Saturday, the fifth-year guard unzipped her warmup jacket to reveal her white No. 2 jersey. When coach Lindsay Gottlieb motioned for Otto to check in, the crowd grew even louder.
On the biggest stage, the walk-on from Windward got her shining moment, scoring five quick points in the final minutes of USC’s 87-55 victory over Texas A&M Corpus Christi.