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CLASH OF TITANS!!! | It’s a massive matchup of undefeated top-10 teams featuring some of the sport’s biggest stars when the No. 6 Notre Dame Fighting Irish face off against JuJu Watkins and the No. 3 USC Trojans this afternoon on NBC and Peacock. Both teams are 4-0 and both made it at least as far as the Sweet 16 in last year’s NCAA Tournament. Both teams are helmed by superstar guards with serious player of the year potential who are helping to continue the momentum in women’s college basketball following Caitlin Clark’s departure for the WNBA. For Notre Dame, that’s sophomore Hannah Hidalgo, who broke the school’s single-season record for points per game last season (22.6) and was named ACC Defensive Player of the Year, ACC Rookie of the Year, and ACC Tournament MVP. And for USC, it’s megastar Watkins, who put together a transcendent freshman season in 2023-24, ranking second behind Clark in scoring with 27.1 points per game and setting the DI single-season record for most points scored as a freshman with 920. After leading the Trojans to their first Elite Eight appearance since 1994, Watkins looks to continue her growth on and off the court in Year 2. Ahead of Saturday’s game, NBC will air episodes one and two of a new docuseries, “On the Rise: JuJu Watkins”, providing an in-depth look at the 19-year-old’s emergence as a business and basketball powerhouse. USC, led by head coach Lindsay Gottlieb, deepened its roster this offseason with the addition of Stanford’s Kiki Iriafen via the transfer portal and a stacked recruiting class, including Kennedy Smith, Kayleigh Heckel, Avery Howell, and Rian Forestier. Saturday’s game looks to be the first real test of the season for a rolling Fighting Irish squad, who have outscored their opponents by 170 points across their first four wins of the year. They’re coming off a 91-55 win over Lafayette last Sunday, with Hidalgo leading the scoring with 29 points and the team as a whole tallying a program-record 15 three-pointers.