The No. 1 seed Trojans put up a valiant fight against No. 2 UConn, but the fact that JuJu Watkins was sidelined by a season-ending ACL tear proved to be the key factor that doomed USC.

With no JuJu Watkins, USC can't keep pace with Paige Bueckers and Connecticut in the fourth quarter of a 78-64 loss in the Elite Eight of the NCAA tournament.

Bueckers has scored a total of 50 points across those two games, including 28 when UConn defeated USC in the Elite Eight last year to advance to the Final Four. Bueckers has also recorded a total of 13 rebounds and eight assists and has shot 44.4 percent from the field and 35.7 percent from 3-point range against the Trojans.