The end of the USC women’s 2025-25 basketball season left questions floating through Galen Center.

What would they do without JuJu Watkins , whose ACL injury sent the women’s basketball world reeling? Who could fill the shoes of Kiki Iriafen and Rayah Marshall, who are out of eligibility?

The defending Big Ten regular-season champions had to make their own magic.

Head coach Lindsay Gottlieb built a roster that is equal parts returning talent and high-level transfers while embracing the incoming star power of freshman Jazzy Davidson .

“Right from the start over the summer,” Gottlieb told reporters, “it was a team that organically got along really well, spent time together of their own accord without me mandating it.

“The way that we play is going to necessitate everyone’s parti

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