No. 3 USC kept the scoreboard humming Tuesday night, blasting College of Charleston 105-44 at the Galen Center behind a pair of 24-point outings from freshman Saniyah Hall and sophomore Jazzy Davidson.
The Trojans are 3-0 now, and all three wins have come with triple digits attached. That’s a rare run in program history - USC has scored 100 or more in three straight games only one other time, matching a stretch from December 1980. This is the first time the Women of Troy have opened a season that way.
Hall turned in a career night, piling up 24 points and eight rebounds in 23 minutes while going 8-of-15 from the floor. She also added two assists and a steal.
Davidson matched her with 24 points of her own on 9-of-17 shooting, including three 3-pointers, and filled the box score with four rebounds, four assists, four steals and three blocks. JuJu Watkins chipped in 20 points in just 22 minutes, while also leading USC with six assists and adding four steals and four rebounds.
Junior Ryann Bennett gave the Trojans a fourth double-figure scorer with a season-high 10 points and four assists.
USC didn’t just score in bunches - it squeezed Charleston from the opening tip. Freshman Sara Okeke scored the first basket of the game just 10 seconds in, finishing a Hall assist, and after an early 2-2 tie, the Trojans ripped off a 23-2 run to seize control. Davidson scored nine points in the first quarter alone, and USC forced eight turnovers on its way to a 29-8 lead after one.
By halftime, the game had already tilted hard. USC had added 29 more points in the second quarter to go into the break ahead 58-23.
Watkins had 16 points, four assists and four steals by then, while Davidson had 15 and Hall had 11. Freshman Sitaya Fagan helped set the tone on the glass with eight first-half rebounds, and the Trojans had a 27-15 rebounding edge while outscoring Charleston 20-0 in transition before the break.
The second half brought more of the same. Kennedy Smith opened the third quarter with a transition layup, and Hall took over with 11 points in the period on 4-of-6 shooting.
USC hit 61.1 percent of its shots in the quarter and used a 15-2 burst to stretch the margin to 78-30 with 47 seconds left in the frame. The Trojans carried an 86-35 lead into the fourth.
From there, the lead kept growing. Laura Williams started USC’s fourth-quarter scoring with a layup off a Rian Forestier assist, and later the Trojans strung together 12 straight points to reach a game-high 64-point cushion, 105-41, with 1:23 left.
The numbers across the board were lopsided. USC shot 50.6 percent overall, going 39-of-77, and finished with 23 assists against just five turnovers.
Charleston shot 30.2 percent and committed 21 turnovers, which USC turned into 28 points. The Trojans also owned the rebounding battle 52-36, the paint 52-28, fast-break points 28-3 and bench scoring 22-9.
Defensively, USC posted season highs with 14 steals and 10 blocks. Fagan finished with career bests of nine rebounds, three blocks and two steals.
Okeke was perfect from the field, going 4-for-4 for eight points and seven rebounds. Senior Pania Davis added four points, six rebounds, an assist, a steal and a block.
Up next, USC heads to Greenville, South Carolina, for a neutral-site matchup with No. 1 South Carolina on Sunday, Nov. 15, at Bon Secours Wellness Arena.
Tipoff is set for 1 p.m. ET /10 a.m.
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