JuJu Watkins is simply 4 video games into her sophomore season at Southern California, however she is already reaching spectacular milestones.
On Friday, the 19-year-old USC guard recorded the 1,000th level of her profession.Â
Watkins reached the coveted factors threshold on the second-fastest tempo in NCAA Division I historical past. She additionally achieved the feat in two fewer video games than former Iowa star Caitlin Clark.
Clark, the highest choose within the 2024 WNBA Draft, stays the NCAA Division I all-time main scorer in males’s and girls’s basketball.
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Southern California Trojans guard JuJu Watkins dribbles throughout a sport in opposition to the Cal State Northridge Matadors Nov. 12, 2024, in Los Angeles. (Kirby Lee/Getty Pictures)
Friday’s sport in opposition to Santa Clara was the thirty eighth sport of Watkins’ school basketball profession. She knocked down a bounce shot with lower than seven minutes remaining within the third quarter to achieve the 1,000-point mark.
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LSU’s Maree Jackson, Oregon State’s Carol Menken and New Orleans’ Sandra Hodge all reached the mark in 37 video games. It additionally took Weber State’s Kathy Miller and Delaware’s Elena Delle Donne 38 video games to document 1,000 factors of their careers.
USC guard JuJu Watkins indicators autographs after a sport in opposition to Cal State Northridge Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Picture/Ryan Solar)
Watkins earned nationwide Participant of the Yr honors a number of occasions throughout her spectacular run as a California highschool basketball participant. She has routinely showcased her scoring potential since she transitioned to the following degree, ending her freshman season with 920 factors.Â
She additionally turned the thirty first participant in USC historical past to achieve 1,000 factors. Cheryl Miller reached the 1,000-point mark in 48 video games. Miller’s 3,018 factors stay essentially the most by a single participant in USC ladies’s basketball historical past.Â
Miller turned a fixture at USC video games final season. Simply forward of Watkins debut within the NCAA Division I ladies’s basketball match in March, Miller supplied Watkins some phrases of knowledge.
Southern California Trojans guard JuJu Watkins, left, is congratulated by Cheryl Miller after a sport in opposition to the Colorado Buffaloes Feb. 23, 2024, in Los Angeles. (Kirby Lee/Getty Pictures)
“I need you to search out that quiet house the place nobody else [is], the place it’s your time to exhale. … I’m not nervous concerning the bodily. You’re a younger child, and also you’re going to proceed to develop into your physique,” Miller informed Watkins throughout a sit-down with Andscape in March.Â
“But it surely’s the psychological fatigue that I fear from you. It’s not a basketball. … It’s the enterprise facet. That’s what I would like from you, to search out that quiet house.”
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USC defeated Santa Clara 81-50 Friday and improved to 4-0. The Trojans host Notre Dame Nov. 23.
The Related Press contributed to this report.
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