On Friday we get USC and Sunday UCLA.
The Trojans are ranked #15. They brought in five strong players through the Transfer Portal and landed the number one Freshman recruit in the nation,. Juju Watkins, came from Sierra Canyon H.S., a perennial LA powerhouse and is currently the number two scoring leader in the nation - behind Caitlin somebodyorother. Ms. Watkins is averaging 25.8 points per.
USC came screaming out of the blocks to start the season, beating everyone in sight, but has lost four conference games recently - UCLA, Utah, Colorado, and Washington. They have a strong, solid roster and recently beat UCLA, with Juju scoring 32. UCLA was held to 19 points in the first half and shot 18% from three.
Rayah Marshall is a 6'-4" load to deal with in the paint. She's averaging 10 and 10 and plays tough defense. Seems to me we need both Cam and Kiki to stay out of foul trouble and limit our turnovers to twelve or thirtee to win this thing.
UCLA
Lauren Betts 6'-7" Soph. C 15.4 8.6
Charisma Osborne 5'-9" Grad. G 15.0 4.9
Kiki Rice 5'-11" Soph. G 13.2 5.7
Londynn Jones 5'-4" Soph. G 12.6 1.9
Gabriela Ja;quez 6'-0" Soph. F 10.8 5.7
Angela Dugalic 6'-4" Senior F 9.1 7.4
Lina Sontag 6'-3" Soph. F
The Bruins had a great win streak going until recently. In January they lost to USC, Utah, and Washington State. They're currently ranked seventh but when they're hitting on all cylinders, they're better than that. We need one of our best games to beat them.
GO STANFORD!! LET'S WIN'EM BOTH!!
