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.

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.

Our USC women’s basketball analyst, CeCe Clay, has another 10-minute video breaking down the Trojans’ 22-point win over Penn State.