USC’s talented freshmen take the spotlight in Sweet 16 win over K-State

It’s been clear all season that for as deep as this USC women’s basketball team is, it was built around the incredible one-two combo of JuJu Watkins and Kiki Iriafen. One of those two — most often Watkins, the consensus first-team All-American and United States Basketball Writers Association national player of the year — led the team in scoring in all but one game before Saturday. Never was that truer than Saturday night.