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USC superstar JuJu Watkins is out for the rest of the tournament with a torn ACL and it is a huge blow to the entire sport as they try to build on the hype generated by Caitlin Clark last year. The truth is that, with or without JuJu, women’s hoops will never reach that level of hype again.
Doug Gottlieb: “The good thing is Paige Bueckers is still playing, UCONN is still playing. She is still a star. UCONN is still a name. No one can convince me it’s going to be the same, that there’s ever going to be some sort of continuous hype... ‘Cause the women’s game technically out-rated the men’s game last year, right? It made some people believe they were on the same playing field and they were not.”