Even at 62 years old, Rob Ryan, USC’s new linebackers coach, isn’t one to observe drills from the sidelines. In the mix with his linebacker corps Thursday during spring practice, he guided even USC’s most senior defender, Eric Gentry, on proper technique — hitting the blocking shield and tackling dummy himself with the agility of
When he was first announced as USC’s starting quarterback last November, Jayden Maiava stepped into a pretty thorny situation. The team already had rallied behind Miller Moss, who spent the previous three seasons earning teammates’ trust. Plus, he’d have only a few games to prove himself, and USC desperately needed immediate results. “That’s a hard
LOS ANGELES — The boos rained on Mississippi State’s players every time they brought the ball up the court. They continued into halftime as the Bulldogs cheerleaders took the stage, then when Mississippi State came back out of the locker room, and when one of them tangled with Rayah Marshall in the postgame handshake line.
JuJu Watkins has taken the college basketball world by storm. But, the Southern California guard suffered a devastating, season-ending knee injury during a second-round game in the NCAA women’s tournament on Monday. Watkins, 19, was carried off the court in the first quarter of USC’s eventual victory over Mississippi State. ESPN, citing sources, later reported
JuJu Watkins screamed. She held her right knee with both hands, squeezed her eyes shut, and screamed. A school and a town and a sport screams with her. In the history of basketball in Los Angeles, it will be forever known as the night everything changed. On a court where she flies, USC’s JuJu Watkins
By JAKE NISSE Published: 23:35 EDT, 24 March 2025 | Updated: 23:51 EDT, 24 March 2025 Women’s college basketball star Juju Watkins was carried off the court in agony on Monday night after suffering an apparent knee injury. Watkins and her USC team were facing Mississippi State in the second round of March Madness when
USC star sophomore JuJu Watkins left Monday’s second-round matchup against Mississippi State after appearing to injure her right knee while driving to the hoop midway through the first quarter. Watkins immediately grabbed her right knee as she fell to the court in pain. Unable to walk, Watkins had to be carried to the locker room
JuJu Watkins winced, shaking her left hand, the collective basketball world holding its breath. The first 10 minutes of USC’s tournament debut had been disconcerting enough already. Errant passes sailed away. Makeable jumpers clanked away. And No. 16-seed North Carolina Greensboro, having promised to “shock the world,” was at the very least making life difficult
USC sophomore JuJu Watkins is the Big Ten player of the year and a two-time unanimous first-team All-American. She leads the Trojans with 24.6 points, 3.5 assists and 2.2 steals a game. Senior Kiki Iriafen, a third-team All-American, is averaging 18.2 points and a team-high 8.3 rebounds a game, and senior Rayah Marshall leads the
Kennedy Smith was only 14, just a few games into her freshman season at Etiwanda High, when she first crossed paths on the court with Kiki Iriafen, who played at Harvard-Westlake. Four years later, with both at USC, Iriafen still vividly remembers her first impression. “I did not like her,” Iriafen said, with a laugh.