For most of the season, USC women’s basketball has been carried by its starting backcourt of JuJu Watkins, McKenzie Forbes, and Kayla Padilla. While those three players all played important roles in helping USC beat Arizona on Thursday in Tucson, the frontcourt tandem of Rayah Marshall and Kaitlyn Davis carried most of the workload for the Trojans.
Marshall and Davis both posted season-high point totals to pick up the slack on a night when their backcourt teammates weren’t shooting well from 3-point range. It’s true that USC tied this game late in regulation on a 3-pointer, and then broke a tie in the second overtime with a 3-pointer, but it was the gruntwork of Davis and Marshall which put USC in position to make those key shots.
Let’s go into greater detail about Marshall and Davis, the frontcourt which is stepping up at just the right time this season: