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The 2025 NCAA DI women's basketball tournament - better known as March Madness- is set to start next Wednesday and the excitement is piling up around the nation.
The USC Trojans women's basketball team has been selected as a No. 1 seed in the tournament for the second straight season.
That set the No. 4-ranked team up as hosts of the NCAA First and Second Rounds in the coming week at Galen Center, in Los Angeles, California. ing top-seeded USC (28-3) for NCAA competition are No. 16 seed UNC Greensboro (25-6), [8] California (25-8) and [9] Mississippi State (21-11).
JuJu Watkins is down to business
The USC Trojans and the UNC Greensboro Spartans face off in their first-round matchup Saturday, and no other player is more ready to shine than sophomore superstar JuJu Watkins, who could steal the big dance and emerge as the best baller of the tournament.
The 6'2 guard became USC's sixth First Team All-American and the first to win the Ann Meyers Drysdale Shooting Guard of the Year Award. Not bad for a player that set the all-time national record for scoring by a frehsman with 920 points, which speaks volumes of her greatness.
A video posted by the USC women's basketball team shows the moment the squad found out they were going to be the No. 1 seed in Spokane. While most of the players were excited and cheery, Watkins looks unfazed as she rather celebrate once her team is in a good position to contend for the national title.
The Trojans are on the right track to trascend
Under the direction of head coach Lindsay Gottlieb, the 2024-25 Trojans won the Big Ten regular-season championship and have posted a 9-2 record against ranked opponents as they now make USC's third consecutive and 19th overall NCAA appearance.
Gottlieb and her Trojans are looking to improve on last year's Elite Eight run, and USC's powerful performance so far suggests that this team has the potential to vie for the program's first NCAA title since 1984.
All-Big Ten First Team honorees USC sophomore JuJu Watkins and senior Kiki Iriafen are both in line to repeat as winners of the national Shooting Guard and Power Forward of the year awards, while Watkins has already been named the National Player of the Year by The Athletic.