JuJu Watkins, USC prevail in nail-biter vs. UConn after Paige Bueckers’ second-half surge
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JuJu Watkins, USC prevail in nail-biter vs. UConn after Paige Bueckers’ second-half surge

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HARTFORD, Conn. — With just over three minutes remaining in the third quarter of Saturday’s top-10 matchup between No. Much to the delight of the road Trojans, JuJu Watkins led her team over Bueckers in a game featuring two of the nation’s best players. She blocked Bueckers’ final shot attempt of the first half, then blocked guard Ashlynn Shade on UConn’s second possession coming out of the locker room, with both rejections serving as fitting punctuation marks in her prolific performance. But dealing with the pressure took time to learn Heading into Saturday’s affair, both Gottlieb and UConn coach Geno Auriemma stressed that the top-10 matchup wasn’t merely Watkins vs. Bueckers. Added Iriafen: “We knew how it felt to be in such a big game and for it to not go our way, so I think with that, we didn’t want that to happen today.” Auriemma confident Strong will ‘relish’ late-game pressure despite late misses Don’t expect Strong’s two free-throw misses in the waning seconds of regulation to impact UConn’s late-game execution going forward.

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