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Alexa Philipo
Spokein, Washington — In a few moments after winning the 16th sweet on Saturday in Kansas Statet, USSC players received a special relationship on Facebook. Juju Watkins, a guard and heartbeat of their team, called the dressing room when his friends celebrated their big victory, after the first time since 1982-84 secured eight consecutive places.
Watkins, who is responsible for the revival of the USC women’s basketball program after years of sleep, had to watch the game from Los Angeles. The best national player of the year in the NCAA championship in the second round of the NCAA against Mississippi Stet, the ACL final in the second season of the Trojan and sent a shock wave around the world of sports.
Gotlib’s 2-year-old daughter Rees kissed Watkins by phone. He confused, ‘Isn’t there pain?’, Gotlieb told his daughter, ‘No, it’s still pain, but today’s happiness and with us.
The Watkins will once again support his Trojan from Monday because the number one faces five Boikers and Yukon Hasky No. 2 for Yocon. This was the possibility that every fan went around as soon as the bracket went down: a duplicate game of last year’s eight elite and a game between two of the brightest stars of the game. If there is something, the fans are disappointed. The two players must face each other at that stage of the tournament and both of them could not play in Tampa.
That stirring remains, but when the teams will take the stadium on Monday night, it will not be the same game that everyone wished — Yocon with.
Coach Gino Airema and Buyckers are more than most of them are associated with the poor condition that the USC and Watkins face. Yukon has dealt with a number of injuries to end the season in recent years, including the Bekers. After winning the best national player of the year as a first-grade student of the year, he sat most of the second semester on the stadium due to the breaking of the main vertebrae and the Milli Missey. The next summer he was torn ACL and sat in the 2022-23 season.
So it wasn’t surprising that Aure Arimma and joint coach Chris Daily were among the first to reach Gotlib in hours after Watkins’ injury. “Our heart will be broken for him,” Buckers told reporters. “Whatever he needs, mentally, physically, if he needs an ventilation, he should ask,” he said.
“They have gone through this situation and I don’t think you feel it unless you have noticed that before,” Gotlieb said.
Aryamma and the brides have experienced the ups and downs of the recovery process, and what is needed to get out of the other side.
“If you are a competitor, if you are someone like the page, someone like a jocus, or some other children who have gone through this situation, they will return better,” Arimma said. “They will come back stronger, more willing, more resistant, more understandable that they can fight through things and dominate anything about anything.
Buckers agreed.
“You don’t get good like a gang, if you don’t have a big motorcycle, your work ethics will be big, it will attack this process as it has attacked the basket,” he said. “And just as it is very good in the basketball, he will be very good in this recovery process.
For Builers, a walk to be very good — a common quality that made himself and Watkins the first place — helped return stronger than ever. In the tournament, the tournament has scored 74 points in their last two games — 40 points in his career on Saturday — while he is proud of the key to change in the country and shooting at 50-40-90 efficiency.
Even now, with his days in Yukon, Aureima and Gotlieb announced they would see a star playing more urgently when he was trying to win the tournament, which would be the first program since
“You’re trying not to think about the bet or pressure or not reach the final four games,” Boikers said. “Obviously it’s there, so you’re trying not to think about it and just go out and play the same way as if it’s your last game, as if it’s the most important 40 minutes of your life.
The last time these teams met, the Trojans won 72-70 at the end of December, despite 18 points. The two clubs look different: Watkins scored 25 points against Hasky and Azi Fod, Yukon’s guard, only eight minutes. It was Her first game back after tweaking her knee eralier that month, and Six Game Overll Since Returning from Her Acl Tear in November 2023. Scorer in the postseason at 15.3 points per game — Said Sunday that in Retrospect She wash wash washe washe was learned to play that game, But Since Finding Her Groove Over Over the Past Few Months A “completly different Player (With a) Completely Different Mindset.
The Trojans also find new reality, although it is clear that the goal has not changed: achieving the first four finals of the program in 1986 and the national championship in The only way to achieve these goals is now different.
USSC will be looking forward to playing more through first-placed Kiki Iriavin, adding a valuable transfer portal, which Gotlib calls one of the country’s best players. And he doesn’t have to do it alone. The team has always been planning to rely so much on the first grade students after three of the IVE losing players out last season. Gotlib said the Trojans believed in first-year students throughout the season. Now they are only asked to play a slightly bigger role than expected.
The group in the absence of the Watkins — Kennedy Smith and Verry Howell only merge to 37 points against Kansas Stite — they only confirmed to Gotlib that “the winners are above everything.
The reality is that each team is only 40 minutes away from the end. That’s why Aramma said it’s the most difficult game in the tournament.
The Haskians have experience with five players who played in the eighth elite game, including Boke and Foud; Without Watkins, USSC has only two players, including only one main player in Raya Marshall. But the Trojans may have heard all people who counted when Watkins fell — benefit from the lack of pressure on them.
Anyone who can deal with the pressures of this moment — Whatever the knife-wielding, the fodder and the rest of the Hasks are hungry for the horrific championships, or Iriavian, Smith and Halwel who play both for themselves and their wounded friend – – create all the differences.
“Some players go to the event, some are shrinking,” Arimma said. “Only the nature of that is.