Five games into her USC career, JuJu Watkins is a legitimate college basketball superstar

Star or superstar? It’s not even a close call. JuJu is right up there with Caitlin Clark, and the numbers prove it.

The term “superstar” can be thrown around loosely. Sports have plenty of stars, but “superstar” is reserved for the best of the best, the top one percent, the true elites of the sport.

Patrick Mahomes is an NFL superstar. Tua Tagovailoa and Dak Prescott are not superstars. They’re good players.

LeBron James and Steph Curry are NBA superstars. Anthony Davis and Draymond Green are not. They’re very good players. If you wanted to call them stars, fine. They’re not superstars.

Superstars are a cut above stars. They’re in a more exclusive club. That’s the whole point behind the term. If the word is used interchangeably with “stars,” then when add the “super”?

JuJu Watkins of USC is a legitimate women’s college basketball superstar. You might say she’s only five games into her USC and collegiate career, but in those five games, she already has three games with 30 or more points. She has carried her team statistically. She is the main reason USC is 5-0. She is the main reason the Trojans are a top-seven team in the national polls.

Sounds like a superstar, yes?

Not convinced?

Look at this list below:

If Caitlin Clark and one other player (who plays in a smaller conference against weaker competition) are the only two women’s college basketball players averaging more points per game than JuJu Watkins, and Watkins is responsible for leading USC to the top tier of the sport after decades of relative irrelevance, what else is left to say?

Superstar. USC doesn’t just have “Good JuJu” on its side. JuJu has been greater than great.

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