The USC Trojans women's basketball team is 16-1, with an undefeated 6-0 record in Big Ten conference play. USC star guard JuJu Watkins had a stellar first half against Penn State, leading to another Trojans win.

In front of a home crowd that needed ‘some semblance of normalcy’ amid LA fires, as Cheryl Miller put it, Watkins dazzled with 35 points on 13-of-15 shooting.

Cherie Nelson, who held the program’s scoring record for many years with a 50-point game, was among several Trojan alumni at Galen Center. She brought her 98-year-old mother, whose house in nearby Altadena was destroyed in the wildfires last week.