Ethan Inman

1 week ago | dailytrojan.com | Leila Mackenzie |Ethan Inman

Rory McIlroy finally pulled it off. In unfamiliar fashion, Wee-Mac’s major pain train rumbled through the Augusta National Golf Club and ground to a halt Sunday — he disembarked, suited in Masters green. McIlroy’s Masters championship makes him the sixth man with a career Grand Slam and the first since Tiger Woods in 2000. But it took an apocalyptic series of major meltdowns for McIlroy to don that elusive Pantone 342. By age 25, he’d already won four majors.

3 weeks ago | dailytrojan.com | Leila Mackenzie |Ethan Inman

The image — sophomore guard JuJu Watkins on the Galen Center floor, curled into a ball, clutching her right knee, screaming in agony — has already affixed itself into the basketball community’s collective memory. The All-American tore her ACL on a routine fast-break sequence Monday against No. 9-seed Mississippi State (22-12, 7-9 SEC), sidelining her for the remainder of the season.

1 month ago | dailytrojan.com | Kasey Kazliner |Ethan Inman

By defeating Washington in a 92-61 blowout on Wednesday, USC set itself up to most likely make the Big Ten Tournament with one regular-season bout left on its schedule. Fifteen of the 18 conference programs will qualify for the tournament in Indianapolis. The Trojans (15-15, 7-12 Big Ten) sit in 15th place in the Big Ten standings but have head-to-head wins over the bottom three teams, which could very well help USC edge them out.

2 months ago | dailytrojan.com | Leila Mackenzie |Ethan Inman

Freshman guard Kayleigh Heckel swiped a steal and flung a pass far up the floor to sophomore guard JuJu Watkins with 4:45 left in the first quarter. After scoring the Trojans’ last 8 points, Watkins turned toward the hoop and confidently launched a “heat check,” deep triple from the left wing. It was way off, accelerating awkwardly from the rim along the baseline. Watkins offered the crowd an unconcerned apology before she turned to the bench, laughing and patting her chest.