“ When there is a will, there is a means ” – Orange County Register

Spokane, Washington – He went from something like a hard puzzle of 1000 rooms with a three -dimensional Doozy and 5,000 pieces, the game planning for a revenge match with Uconn in the elite eight without superstar Juju Watkins.

Lindsay Gottlieb, USC women’s basketball coach, has not only to solve for the Superstar Paige Bueckers before Monday’s match with the second seeded Huskies, she and her staff also had to fill the hundreds of pool nests left all over the field by the absence of Watkins.

A student environmental impact report what they learned from their two previous confrontations against Uconn in the past year – a defeat of 80 to 73 in Elite Eight from last year and a non -conference victory of 72-70 in December in Storrs, Conn. – wouldn’t even do much good; It would not be much recyclable without the 29 and 25 respective points of Watkins.

The USC coaches will have to ask children to run early to work again – or directly on time? – and double time, to compete in defense and offensive. A reasonable request after the first -year students Kennedy Smith, Avery Howell and Kayleigh Heckel intensified on Saturday with a 45 combined of the 76 points of the Trojans in their six -point victory on the state of Kansas in Sweet 16.

And they will have to disentangle the way of Spring Free Star Forward Kiki Iriafen – who had only seven points against the Kansas State – double teams that everyone knows how to come for her with Watkins not there to distract the Huskies.

“This is what March basketball, adjustments,” said the Rayah Marshall center, which will also be invited to do a lot at that time of the year, when there were only eight women’s basketball teams to train and walk, as said by the assistant trankee.

Before the match against the state of Kansas, “We said it would be:” It is the first look and if they try to win, it is the second look, and, hey, it is the third look, and if we arrive at the fourth look, nobody had never seen it, the least of me, because we should not arrive at times this Saturday evening.

And defensively? Against the alleged this summer 1, the draft of the WNBA Pick Bueckers? And friends? Iriafen said she was confident in the defensive effort of the Trojans so far, since they have granted an average of 48.3 points in three games of the NCAA tournament.

“We understand that they are a big team,” said Iriafen, a former Harvard Westlake High star. “They are playing in a way at their best right now, and we are losing a huge song. But for us, when there is a will, there is a means.

“We will have an excellent match plan to keep them.”

What if – or when? – Does that collapse in the madness in progress?

“It’s Mars,” said Marshall. “Throw the match plan and compete.”