Cherie Nelson, who held the program’s scoring record for many years with a 50-point game, was among several Trojan alumni at Galen Center. She brought her 98-year-old mother, whose house in nearby Altadena was destroyed in the wildfires last week.

USC women's basketball came home to Los Angeles a few days ago after a long road trip to the East Coast. USC players returned to a grieving L.A. community grappling with the enormity of devastation created by the wildfires which have caused so much loss in the city.

In front of a home crowd that needed ‘some semblance of normalcy’ amid LA fires, as Cheryl Miller put it, Watkins dazzled with 35 points on 13-of-15 shooting.