The Women’s NCAA Basketball Tournament began in 1982. USC won it all in 1983 and 1984, and reached the national championship game in 1986. USC made three national title games in four years and ruled women’s college basketball before Stanford, then Tennessee, and then Connecticut forged bigger, more enduring college hoops legacies. USC was the original superpower in the NCAA Tournament era. The Trojans had some very successful years in the early 1990s thanks to basketball icon Lisa Leslie.
And then? Crickets.
USC has achieved very little over the last 29 years, but that walk through the desert wilderness is ending with this 2023 NCAA Tournament berth.
A new era of promise and potential is getting off the ground at USC. Coach Lindsay Gottlieb and assistant Beth Burns are figuring things out. Juju Watkins is coming to upgrade the offense.
There aren’t a lot of recent photos from USC women’s basketball NCAA Tournaments … because there aren’t many recent NCAA Tournaments in which the Women of Troy played.
You have to go back to 2014 for USC’s last NCAA Tournament, and you have to travel in a time machine to the 1980s to find the richest, most vivid images from USC’s NCAA Tournament history in women’s basketball:
2014 FIRST ROUND LOSS TO ST. JOHN’S
Mar 22, 2014; Knoxville, TN, USA; USC Trojans guard Brianna Barrett (23) attempts a three pointer…
Mar 22, 2014; Knoxville, TN, USA; USC Trojans guard Brianna Barrett (23) attempts a three pointer as time expired that would have tied the game during the second half of a women’s college basketball game against the St. John’s Red Storm in the first round of the NCAA Tournament at Thompson Boling Arena. St. John’s won 71 to 68. Mandatory Credit: Randy Sartin-USA TODAY Sports
MARK TRAKH, FORMER HEAD COACH OF THE USC WOMEN’S TEAM
Mar 21, 2015; College Park, MD, USA; New Mexico State Aggies head coach Mark Trakh talks…
Mar 21, 2015; College Park, MD, USA; New Mexico State Aggies head coach Mark Trakh talks to his team during a timeout against the Maryland Terrapins in the first round of the women’s NCAA…
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