Juju Watkins scored 5 points in USC upset of Stanford in Palo Alto!
As it turns out, Watson’s electrifying performance rewrote more than USC’s record books.
In addition to becoming this season’s first Division 1 player to score 50 points in a game, Watkins became the first Division 1 player in the last 25 years to score that many points against an AP Top 10 team, according to ESPN. She is also the only Division 1 freshman in the past 25 years to rack up 50 points and 10 rebounds in a game.
Watkins made her presence felt all over the court. In addition to her four steals and two assists, she finished with 11 rebounds, making her the only Division I freshman in the past 25 seasons with 50 points and 10 rebounds and the first player this season with 40 points and 10 rebounds in a game, according to ESPN Stats & Information.
The performance was so spectacular that by the second half the Maples Pavilion crowd couldn't help but watch and react in awe as Watkins hit shot after shot, no matter her place on the floor or what defensive scheme Stanford threw her way.
"Every time I scored, all I heard was oooooh," Watkins said. "It wasn't even like a boo. I was like, 'All right.' It was crazy."
“If you have the choice between humble and cocky, go with cocky. There's always time to be humble later, once you've been proven horrendously, irrevocably wrong.”
