Juju Watkins Addresses Growth Of Women's Basketball, WNBA

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00:00People coming out in a snowstorm to essentially see you and UMD.

00:04How important are these hybrid games for the growth of women's basketball

00:08and how do you handle the pressure or responsibility in helping push the game forward?

00:12Yeah, it's always a blessing when we're able to play in front of

00:16a great crowd like this.

00:20We never take it for granted and it's definitely helping move the game forward.

00:24We see that through all the numbers and in terms of

00:28the viewership and everything like that, attendance.

00:32I think it lies on all of our shoulders. I don't play alone, nobody plays alone.

00:36To have a team behind me and have other

00:40great players to share the platform with, it's been amazing.

00:48Lindsay, can you talk about the impact that Rhea had down the stretch?

00:52The rebounds, blocks, a little bit of everything. She's kind of the unsung hero on this team

00:56and for her to have that impact at the end of the game for you guys to close out.

01:00Yeah, you said it. She has a magnetism. I think the team believes in her

01:04so much. She's kind of the energy giver to other people. She's a little bit under the weather.

01:08Fought through it. Challenged her a bit at halftime because

01:12Dulce, I thought, was getting to the boards and she just can own it

01:16and take messages and do what we need her to do. The blocks she had at the end,

01:20the ability to kind of be a playmaker for us

01:24and put these two in action and she can pass and find them off it. I can't say enough

01:28things. She's been terrific and is just a huge part

01:32of any success that we're having.