USC star JuJu Watkins reaches 1,000-point milestone faster than NCAA all-time scorer Caitlin Clark

JuJu Watkins is conscionable 4 games into her sophomore play astatine Southern California, but she is already reaching awesome milestones.

On Friday, the 19-year-old USC defender recorded the 1,000th constituent of her career. 

Watkins reached the coveted points threshold astatine the second-fastest gait successful NCAA Division I history. She besides accomplished the feat successful 2 less games than erstwhile Iowa prima Caitlin Clark.

Clark, the apical prime successful the 2024 WNBA Draft, remains the NCAA Division I all-time starring scorer successful men's and women's basketball.

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Southern California Trojans defender JuJu Watkins dribbles during a crippled against the Cal State Northridge Matadors Nov. 12, 2024, successful Los Angeles. (Kirby Lee/Getty Images)

Friday's crippled against Santa Clara was the 38th crippled of Watkins' college basketball career. She knocked down a leap changeable with little than 7 minutes remaining successful the 3rd 4th to scope the 1,000-point mark.

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LSU’s Maree Jackson, Oregon State's Carol Menken and New Orleans' Sandra Hodge each reached the people successful 37 games. It besides took Weber State’s Kathy Miller and Delaware’s Elena Delle Donne 38 games to grounds 1,000 points successful their careers.

USC defender JuJu Watkins signs autographs aft a crippled against Cal State Northridge Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2024, successful Los Angeles.  (AP Photo/Ryan Sun)

Watkins earned nationalist Player of the Year honors aggregate times during her awesome tally arsenic a California precocious schoolhouse hoops player. She has routinely showcased her scoring quality since she transitioned to the adjacent level, finishing her freshman play with 920 points. 

She besides became the 31st subordinate successful USC past to scope 1,000 points. Cheryl Miller reached the 1,000-point people successful 48 games. Miller's 3,018 points stay the astir by a azygous subordinate successful USC women's hoops history. 

Miller became a fixture astatine USC games past season. Just up of Watkins debut successful the NCAA Division I women's hoops tourney successful March, Miller offered Watkins immoderate words of wisdom.

Southern California Trojans defender JuJu Watkins, left, is congratulated by Cheryl Miller aft a crippled against the Colorado Buffaloes Feb. 23, 2024, successful Los Angeles. (Kirby Lee/Getty Images)

"I privation you to find that quiescent abstraction wherever nary 1 other [is], wherever it’s your clip to exhale. … I’m not disquieted astir the physical. You’re a young kid, and you’re going to proceed to turn into your body," Miller told Watkins during a sit-down with Andscape successful March. 

"But it’s the intelligence fatigue that I interest from you. It’s not a basketball. … It’s the concern aspect. That’s what I request from you, to find that quiescent space."

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USC defeated Santa Clara 81-50 Friday and improved to 4-0. The Trojans big Notre Dame Nov. 23.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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