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“Really pleased but not surprised,” Gottlieb said via Grace Reynor of The Athletic on X (formerly Twitter).
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The potential showdown was immediately circled by fans as the must-see rematch of the tournament, pitting the nation’s top two individual players — USC’s JuJu Watkins and UConn’s Paige Bueckers — aga...
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“We’re capable of enormity when we do it together, and that’s been the message more than anything else.”
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