Jazzy Davidson is having a moment, and the latest one comes courtesy of Slam Magazine.
The USC freshman has already gone from elite recruit to national name fast. She arrived in college as the top-ranked prospect in the Class of 2025 after a high school run that packed in plenty of hardware and production. At Clackamas High in Oregon, Davidson won the Gatorade Player of the Year award four straight times and piled up a Class 6A record 2,726 points.
Her impact at USC only grew when JuJu Watkins went down with a season-ending knee injury. Davidson was pushed into the Trojans’ primary scoring and leadership role, and she handled it. During the 2025 season, she averaged 17.9 points, 5.6 rebounds, 4.1 assists, 2.0 steals, and 2.0 blocks per game.
Now she’s in the spotlight again, this time on a Slam cover alongside Watkins and Saniyah Hall. Davidson also drew plenty of attention with her solo photos, posing in four different shots with a basketball.
“We have all the talent. We have the iron sharpens iron thing. We can simulate really hard games in practice,” Davidson says to the publication.
USC’s women’s program has been waiting a long time for another championship run. The Trojans last won an NCAA national title in 1984, and since then their deepest tournament push has been the Elite Eight, reached in 1992, 1994, 2024, and 2025. With Watkins and Davidson on the floor together for the first time, that backdrop is part of what makes this duo so intriguing.
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