It’s the match up everybody desires to see…once more.
The USC Trojans are set to play the UCLA Bruins on Saturday for a battle over the crown—and the Huge 10 title— in Los Angeles.
The final time these two squads competed, the No. 4 Trojans took dwelling the dub because of a dominate 38-point efficiency by Juju Watkins. The Watts-native has been main a renaissance in girls’s faculty basketball ever since her SLAM 248 cowl dropped final yr, however she isn’t competing for a nationwide title alone: each senior guard McKenzie Forbes and junior Rayah Marshall are second and third in scoring, respectively. If the Trojans win tonight, they’ll be able to earn the No. 1 seed within the NCAA event.
On the opposite aspect of city is the No. 2 ranked Bruins, who till that matchup towards USC not too way back had been undefeated. Led by a double-double machine of Lauren Betts and a clean, shifty guard in Kiki Rice, UCLA has been destroying opponents by upwards of 30-plus factors. To defeat USC, they’ll want to stay poised and execute, particularly within the paint and from the three-point line—again in February, their capturing woes gave them hassle towards the Trojans.
We’ll see what occurs subsequent, however till then, get the popcorn prepared…
