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"Thank you all for the incredible love and support. Seeing all your messages and kind words has meant the world to me — y’all have given me so much hope," Watkins wrote in a post to her Instagram sto...
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"Thank you for all the incredible love and support," Watkins wrote on Instagram.
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The Wooden Award named its five women's college basketball finalists on Tuesday, per ESPN's Kendra Andrews, with UConn's Paige Bueckers, USC's JuJu Watkins, UCLA's Lauren Betts, Texas' Madison Booker and Notre Dame's Hannah Hidalgo making the cut.
JuJu Watkins of USC and Lauren Betts of UCLA were named finalists for the women's John R. Wooden Award on Tuesday, which is given to the nation's most outstanding college player.
No. 1 USC knocked off No. 9 Mississippi in the second round of the NCAA Tournament, but the Trojans lost JuJu Watkins to an apparent knee injury.
When JuJu Watkins crumbled to the hardwood last week with a torn anterior cruciate ligament, it wasn’t just the end of her sophomore campaign, but the beginning of a long, grueling journey.
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