During the recent 2024 Div I Women's Basketball Championship Elite Eight game between the UConn Huskies and USC Trojans, JuJu Watkins of USC made headlines by becoming the all-time leading freshman scorer with an impressive 29 points. This achievement capped off a remarkable season for Watkins, who set a USC record for single-game scoring with 51 points against Stanford and was honored as the Pac-12 Freshman of the Year.
Watkins made history by breaking a 40-year-old record previously held by San Diego State's Tina Hutchinson. She surpassed Hutchinson's record with a three-point shot during the Elite Eight game, finishing her freshman year with a total of 920 points. In the tournament alone, Watkins scored 110 points, just one point shy of tying Tamika Catchings' 111 tournament points for Tennessee in 1998.
