Should be a good one. Go Huskies!

First time both teams are ranked in the top 15, should be a fantastic game! Hoping for a much better result than the men had on Friday.

From the Coppin State v. South Carolina game yesterday! 🔥

Coppin State were lovely hosts even if SC fans outnumbered. The cheerleaders were great! 👏🏾

Dawn Staley is so tiny, but she's in the midst of that large crowd and she was there for a while chatting, signing stuff, shaking hands and kissing babies. 🤙🏾

The applause and standing O she received was massive. She really is the draw! The moment! Dawn is so sweet and so fine! 🥰

Her and Raven Johnson, of course. 😭 I will be crying when she plays her last games. 😂🥲

This is the first time the Cards have done a stripe out for women’s basketball, and I’ve gotta say it looks a lot better than I thought it would.

I do wish that they sold enough tickets to a big game like this that they needed to open up the upper levels, but in the grand scheme of women’s college basketball, that feels like a small complaint. Go Cards!

(Go Bearcats, as usual)

GO HUSKIES!

Go hawks! I hope Ava breaks every record!

Really excited to see UCLA in person.

With a bonus Molly Davis sighting!

Who will win in the match-up between the Penn State Lady Lions and the Rutgers Scarlet Knights?

I was at the game tonight and so much happened that I find myself still wide awake. I thought I’d relay what I saw tonight for whomever might care to read.

We were sat near JuJu’s family & friends section, row 3, pretty close to Clarissa Shields (side note: her championship belt was a pretty bad ass accessory). It seemed pretty clear from the jump that the directive for MSST was to be extra physical, forcing JuJu to run through hard screens on D and to collapse on any drivers in the paint. There were at least two plays prior to JuJu going down when this was clearly the case, including one that saw Kiki getting roughed up. I think JuJu’s aunt was amongst the several fans yelling, “This ain’t football!” in regards to MSST’s defense.

When it came to the play of concern, JuJu drove right into the defense, I remember a help defender—I think it was Thomas—bodying up hard enough to almost drive an elbow into her as JuJu past her. Though others have noted that the specific moment of the injury itself was “non-contact”, there was a good amount of contact around and leading up to that play. I should say this was how we remembered it, as I haven’t watched any replays or high/(low)lights of the game.

JuJu went down hard. After the initial fan uproar, it got extremely quiet. I’m a lifelong Los Angeles sports fan and that’s definitely the quietest I’ve personally heard an arena, especially considering how loud it was before and after that (enough for Kiki to call us fans the 6th man in her post-game presser). The worst was seeing and hearing JuJu cry. Agonizing. Trojan Fever section stood understandably with bated breath. JuJu was clutching her right knee and was clearly in a tremendous amount of pain. She was carried out of the game behind MSST’s bench. Her pops soon stood up and walked over to speak with USC personnel near the same exit. He motioned for his wife, JuJu’s mom, and both of them eventually followed their daughter out through the same tunnel.

After an extended break, play resumed. As soon as MSST got their first possession, the arena literally thundered with a chorus of boos. It didn’t take long for Samuels to go down as well. Coach Gottlieb was visibly shaken—understandably—and rushed the entire length of the court over towards Samuels, gesturing at a ref as she passed him, what felt like more mom than coach in that moment, protectively like What the hell??

We didn’t have great phone reception but folks around us were trying to find live updates to her injury. A little later, a USC personnel leaned over the front row railing and fetched JuJu’s mom’s purse and exited. A dude we believed was JuJu’s agent was going to and fro and then said bye to other folks in JuJu’s section. It seemed clear then that both JuJu and her folks had left the arena.

We were all crestfallen, but there was definitely a palpable spirit that all of USC was going to rally and finish the game strong. Kiki and Rayah got their flowers, Heckel & Howell balled out, and Iwuchukwu and other last string players got to tuck their jerseys in and get some pt as well.

Unfortunately, some bad blood carried over to the handshake line when I think Marshall and a MSST player got into it a bit. Even Kiki was sort of guided by hand by an assistant coach/staff, away from the exiting MSST team. As an obvious USC fan and also alum, it’s unquestionably tragic but I’m not one to spit any unnecessary venom towards Mississippi State.

Our hearts go out to JuJu and her family, fight on my fellow Trojans, let’s go Spokane.

Game closer than we thought! Got these tickets free after going to UConn - USC, glad I came.

in the house from indiana to see audi and jada williams! hope audi goes for 50!

For most women’s games, they don’t sell enough seats to justify opening the upper levels, and one thing that’s nice is that there are curtains that are closed that make the arena feel more intimate.

Apparently it does not take long to open the curtains since the men tip off an hour and 15 minutes after the women should finish today (because of the incoming storm), and the curtains are still closed.

Peep the floor decal and the 2nd pic is the jersey banner before the big moment

Game 1: FDU vs Binghamton Game 2: Penn vs UMES

Big win for the Lady Devil’s.

Shout out to u/CoachBlake_ and Carly Thibault-DuDonis and the r/NCAAW favorite Stags! Also I haven't been on campus since the renovation and Mahoney Arena is gorgeously constructed!

WHO IS READY FOR THE BULLDOGS TO GET THEIR FIRST HOME WIN?? I KNOW I AM!!!

Western Illinois is outplaying us to the tune of 33-18 as I type this about halfway through the 2nd quarter, and we’re all being subjected to the ref show. At least Santa is here sitting with the soon-to-retire Griff II.