Juju Watkins suffers from a knee injury at the end of the season, how does that affect the race for the madness of the USC march?
The star of Trojans, Juju Watkins, underwent a knee injury at the end of the season at the start of the USC match against the state of Mississippi.
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Los Angeles – After the Mississippi state season finished against southern California Monday evening, the Bulldogs tried to protect one of their players.
At the start of the competition of the second round of the NCAA women’s tournament, The USC star Juju Watkins fell with a knee injury It turned out to be an end of the season. There were players from the state of the Mississippi surrounding Watkins when she went down and let out a painful cry, but that looked like a contactless injury.
But that’s not how everyone saw it. After a silence fell above the Galen Center while Watkins tended, the game resumed and the Bulldogs met with heavy huae of the crowd each time they touched the ball, especially towards the goalkeeper Chandler Prater.
When the Mississippi State locker room opened for post-match interviews, Prater was not available. A team representative told USA Today Sports that she “did not manage well”.
“This is obviously an unfortunate position to participate because it was completely involuntary, and it was just a basketball game,” said Junior Denim Deshields goalkeeper in Usa Today Sports. “But when things happen to a star, I guess they can be seen worse than they are.
However, negative comments have already been published on social networks. Mississippi’s state coach, Sam Purcell, offered prayers and apologies to his opening declaration, but said that he was not aware of his players from his players received online when asked by a sports journalist from USA TODAY. He condemned any harmful comment or threat and reiterated that his players would not try to hurt a player.
“We are a class program,” said Purcell. “We are not playing to hurt; we play to compete. It is just an unhappy situation. There was no harm. And I hope that we, as a society, because social media can be ugly, that you understand the other lady of my team who was involved is a class woman. She also comes from a family.
“I pray as a company that we understand that these are reflected apology that we do not take this further than it requires. On behalf of the Bulldogs, again, we pray for its recovery for this next game because it is the ultimate competitor. We want to see it back on this court.”
Although there were words exchanged in the post-match handle line, there was no bad blood between the bulldogs and the Trojan horses at the end of the night. After his post-match press conference Purcell offered his condolences directly to the USC head coach, Lindsay Gottlieb, and the associate coach Beth Burns. Trojan coaches understood that there was no bad intention.
Jerkaila Jordan, senior of the state of Mississippi, said that she was looking forward to playing against Watkins because “she is one of the best” and that “to see her descend was really difficult”. She offered her prayers and hopes Watkins will be able to return to the field as quickly as possible.
“She changed the game in many ways to such a young age,” said Jordan. “You hate seeing a player go down, especially someone as great as Juju.”
This story has been updated with publishing modifications.
Contribution: Josh Peter