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JuJu Watkins Announces She's Out for Entire 2025-26 Season
USC star JuJu Watkins, last season's AP Player of the Year, will miss 2025-26 to recover from a torn ACL sustained in NCAA Tournament play.
- Sunday evening, Southern California guard JuJu Watkins announced she will miss the 2025-26 season in a USC release and on social media.
- During last season's NCAA second-round game on March 24, 2025, JuJu Watkins tore the anterior cruciate ligament in her right knee on a fast break.
- Before her injury, JuJu Watkins averaged 23.9 points, 6.8 rebounds and 3.4 assists and ranks ninth on USC career scoring list.
- The team will miss Watkins' on-court impact but retains her leadership role, with Lindsay Gottlieb, USC women's basketball coach, saying her health is the program's top priority.
- `Watkins said`, 'These last few months have been filled with a lot of healing, rest and reflection,' adding she will sit out the season to focus on recovery following doctors and trainers' advice.
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USC basketball star JuJu Watkins announces she won’t play this season
USC women’s basketball star JuJu Watkins will miss the upcoming college basketball season as she recovers from the serious knee injury she sustained during the NCAA tournament in March. Watkins said in an announcement on social media that she planned to take the 2025-26 season to “fully focus on continuing to recover so I can come back to the game I love.” “The last few months have been filled with a lot of healing, rest and reflection,” Watkins…
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