JUJU Watkins is sustained to point out out as the perfect girls’s faculty basketball star within the nation.

After a breakout freshman season in March Insanity final 12 months, Watkins is taking her recreation to a different degree.

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On Thursday, Watkins achieved one thing that has by no means been finished in Division 1 males’s or girls’s basketball, the WNBA, or the NBA this century.

Watkins recorded a recreation with 35+ factors, 10+ rebounds, 5+ assists, 5+ blocks, and 5+ threes made.

Not solely that, however she did it towards No. 1 ranked UCLA.

That monster recreation pulled her averages for the season as much as 24.5 factors, 6.8 rebounds, and three.5 assists per recreation.

“Truthfully,” senior heart Clarice Akunwafo stated, “JuJu is wonderful.”

Nobody on the courtroom was capable of cease Watkins, as she scored 11 factors within the first quarter and 14 within the second.

“I did not educate JuJu any of that,” USC coach Lindsay Gottlieb stated.

“Simply attempt to put her in conditions to be her greatest self, and he or she does most of that work.

“What I used to be so impressed with tonight, clearly, was simply the mentality she got here out with.”

Within the fourth quarter of the sport, Watkins registered three blocks in the midst of only one minute.

She had eight complete blocks within the recreation.

“It is no matter it takes to win,” Watkins stated.

“I did not plan on having that many blocks, but it surely’s no matter we have to win.

“I am actually similar to a child on the market and residing out my dream.

“When you may have folks like that present up, you possibly can’t disappoint.”

All-WNBA first and second crew

THE 10 greatest gamers within the WNBA have been chosen and named to the All-WNBA first and second crew.

First crew:

• Caitlin Clark – Indiana Fever
• Napheesa Collier – Minnesota Lynx
• Breanna Stewart – New York Liberty
• Alyssa Thomas – Connecticut Solar
• A’ja Wilson – Las Vegas Aces

Second crew:

• Kahleah Copper – Phoenix Mercury
• Sabrina Ionescu – New York Liberty
• Jonquel Jones – New York Liberty
• Arike Ogunbowale – Dallas Wings
• Nneka Ogwumike – Seattle Storm

School basketball followers had been baffled by her efficiency and shared their ideas on social media.

“8 Block pictures was actually spectacular and important,” one fan stated.

“She’s higher than Caitlin Clark,” one other fan stated.

“She’s the way forward for Girls’s Basketball IMO,” a 3rd fan stated.

“You might reduce that stat line in half and he or she’d nonetheless be solely the second within the nation to do it this season,” a fourth fan stated.