{"id":28937,"date":"2024-12-22T04:42:11","date_gmt":"2024-12-22T04:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/22\/juju-watkins-scores-25-as-usc-women-hold-off-paige-bueckers-and-uconn\/"},"modified":"2024-12-22T04:42:11","modified_gmt":"2024-12-22T04:42:11","slug":"juju-watkins-scores-25-as-usc-women-hold-off-paige-bueckers-and-uconn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/22\/juju-watkins-scores-25-as-usc-women-hold-off-paige-bueckers-and-uconn\/","title":{"rendered":"JuJu Watkins scores 25 as USC women hold off Paige Bueckers and UConn"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Watkins\u2019 Trojans win 72-70 over Bueckers\u2019 Huskies<\/li>\n<li>No 7 USC get best of No 4 Connecticut in Hartford<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>JuJu Watkins scored 25 points and No 7 USC recovered from blowing a 18-point lead in the second half to beat Paige Bueckers and fourth-ranked UConn 72-70 on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>The game was a rematch of last season\u2019s Elite Eight contest that the Huskies won and featured two of the best players in women\u2019s college basketball with All-Americans Bueckers and Watkins. The pair guarded each other for most of the game.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2024\/dec\/21\/southern-cal-uconn-game-watkins-bueckers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watkins\u2019 Trojans win 72-70 over Bueckers\u2019 Huskies No 7 USC get best of No 4 Connecticut in Hartford JuJu Watkins scored 25 points and No 7 USC recovered from blowing a 18-point lead in the second half to beat Paige Bueckers and fourth-ranked UConn 72-70 on Saturday night. The game was a rematch of last &#8230; <a title=\"JuJu Watkins scores 25 as USC women hold off Paige Bueckers and UConn\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/22\/juju-watkins-scores-25-as-usc-women-hold-off-paige-bueckers-and-uconn\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about JuJu Watkins scores 25 as USC women hold off Paige Bueckers and UConn\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}