Women’s college basketball has been on the rise these last few years, riding the wave of iconic players like Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese, Paige Bueckers and JuJu Watkins.

USC women's basketball star JuJu Watkins is ready for the adversity that came her way via an ACL tear in March.

When Paige Bueckers tore her ACL in the summer of 2022, a year after winning Player of the Year honors as a freshman and a few months after leading UConn to its first NCAA Tournament title game since 2016,