Dawn Staley, Paige Bueckers and others around the women’s NCAA Tournament offer support to JuJu Watkins after awful injury

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — She’s not playing in the Sweet 16 and Elite Eight games this weekend, but so many of the people around women’s college basketball are still talking about USC’s JuJu Watkins.

The superstar sophomore guard, who was second in the nation in scoring and will likely be the consensus National Player of the Year, tore her ACL early in the Trojan’s second-round win last Monday against Mississippi State. Over the last week, Watkins has been on the minds of a lot of players and coaches still competing in the tournament.

South Carolina coach Dawn Staley has maintained a relationship with Watkins after recruiting her. She sent her

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