With the NCAA March Insanity ladies’s faculty basketball championship event kicking off subsequent week, JuJu Watkins of the USC Trojans has been busy. So busy, actually she hasn’t been in a position to take up a veteran star participant on her supply for some pre-tournament recommendation.
USC Trojan’s coach Lindsay Gottlieb revealed throughout a current podcast look that faculty basketball star turned WNBA star Caitlin Clark provided to “assist [Watkins] navigate” her rising faculty basketball success.
Talking about Clark’s supply, the 19-year-old sophomore instructed Folks journal that whereas Clark’s help “means loads,” she hasn’t reached out but.
“I haven’t but reached out,” the USC Trojan guard stated, including, “I imply, simply to know that I’ve that help, it means loads.”
It’s no shade or disrespect, although. The rising faculty basketball star, who simply managed to make historical past by surpassing Clark for many factors scored in the course of the first two seasons of her faculty profession, has genuinely been targeted on the sport. She’s additionally been balancing faculty, life, and a few fairly main model offers with Nike, NYX cosmetics, and Diploma deodorant.
Her group might not have beat their rivals, the UCLA Bruins, within the Large Ten Convention Match championship, however the Trojans are nonetheless anticipated to be a No. 1 seed within the upcoming event kicking off on Wednesday, March 19, and are even been favored to win.
Watkins went on to inform Folks how a lot of a “large fan” she is of Clark. From her view, Clark has been “killing it” throughout her first season within the WNBA enjoying for the Indiana Fever.
“I’m all the time proud and cheering her on,” she added.
“She’s only a tremendous dope particular person, and for her to do this, which means loads,” she says of Clark’s supply. “However I haven’t reached out but.”
Watkins added that regardless of being poised to interrupt much more NCAA data, her group “undoubtedly comes first and the whole lot else after.”
