Having been a UCLA fan from the time I first found out what a basketball was until that day Aidan signed on at SMC, I was just fine with the Trojans getting beat... Especially by this gritty UConn bunch that features Paige Bueckers, whom I've been a huge fan of ever since she was a sophomore at Hopkins HS in the Minneapolis area, when I found her game on YouTube and wherever.
It's been quite a story... UConn has been totally snakebit by injuries the last three seasons, including this one. They've been playing with just seven scholarship players most of this season, and the five that are injured right now had all been in the rotation, three of them starters.
But it seems the seven they have remaining are completely and totally on the same page.
I love Caitlin Clark's game, too... Another one whom I watched starting in high school thru the magic of the interwebs. But Friday, I'm rooting for Paige's bunch.
So far as JuJu, she'll get her due... As said above, the Condoms, errrrr Trojans have a stellar class coming in.