SPOKANE, Wash. — The tenacious freshman stared ahead blankly, her eyes welling with tears, the losing USC locker room silent around her. Kennedy Smith gave everything she had in the wake of ...
Geno Auriemma seemed both amused and bemused. The legendary Connecticut women’s basketball coach described himself as “shocked” after ESPN’s Scott Van Pelt jokingly referred to the Huskies as “pesky underdogs” ...
SPOKANE, Wash. — The answers had run out. The worst case had caught up to USC, at the worst time. There was no more outrunning the reality looming over this entire NCAA ...
Kennedy Smith could feel her body dragging. It was late December, and she’d just returned from a month-long injury absence. She was still getting her legs back, still trying to ...
SPOKANE, Wash. — It was never a question of belief. Even in the throes of a nightmare scenario, forced to forge ahead without USC’s biggest, brightest star, Lindsay Gottlieb had done all ...
SPOKANE, Wash. — Thirty six hours after JuJu Watkins’ right knee buckled beneath her and USC’s season changed in the blink of an eye, Lindsay Gottlieb gathered her team for its first ...
SPOKANE, Wash. — The first week after Paige Bueckers tore the anterior cruciate ligament in her knee in August 2022, the unanswered questions haunted the Connecticut star most. “The first week was ...
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 scream with her. In the ...
Rayah Marshall took her place at the front of USC’s defense Saturday, ready to deploy the role she’d spent the past two years perfecting. USC had dragged through the first ...
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 ...
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