{"id":104521,"date":"2025-12-22T04:36:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T04:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/104521\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T04:36:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T04:36:07","slug":"jazzy-davidson-scores-24-points-powering-usc-past-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/104521\/","title":{"rendered":"Jazzy Davidson scores 24 points, powering USC past California"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SAN FRANCISCO\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Freshman Jazzy Davidson<\/a> scored a go-ahead layup with 4:05 remaining and finished with a season-best 24 points, leading the No. 19 USC<\/a> women past California 61-57<\/a> on Sunday in the Invisalign Bay Area Women\u2019s Classic.<\/p>\n

After Davidson\u2019s basket, Londynn Jones<\/a> hit a jumper the next time down as USC used a 6-0 burst to take control. The Trojans answered each Cal threat with a key defensive play or big basket.<\/p>\n

Cal called time out with 43.8 seconds left and trailing 56-54, but as the Golden Bears tried to set up a play, USC\u2019s Kennedy Smith<\/a> made a steal of Sakima Walker\u2019s bad pass.<\/p>\n

Davidson, one of four Trojans averaging double digits in scoring, shot nine for 21 with three three-pointers. She scored 14 points by halftime as USC led 31-28 and held Cal to five three-point attempts while forcing 11 turnovers.<\/p>\n

The Trojans scored 15 points off 18 turnovers by Cal (8-5).<\/p>\n

Walker led the Golden Bears with 13 points and 10 rebounds. Lulu Twidale and Taylor Barnes each scored 11.<\/p>\n

The longtime Pac-12 rivals reunited at Chase Center, home of the Golden State Warriors \u2014 and fans hurried down the stairs for a glimpse of injured USC star JuJu Watkins walking in with the Trojans (9-3).<\/p>\n

The game featured fifth-year USC coach Lindsay Gottlieb<\/a> against her former Cal program that she led to its first Final Four after the 2012-13 season. Gottlieb coached the Golden Bears from 2011-19.<\/p>\n

Cal\u2019s Gisella Maul went down hard in the closing moments of the third quarter and walked to the locker room.<\/p>\n

After the Bears shot five for 20 from three-point range in a 78-69 loss at Stanford on Dec. 14, they were just one for 11 from deep.<\/p>\n

The Trojans completed their nonconference schedule, which included wins over top-25 opponents North Carolina State and Washington.<\/p>\n

Up next for USC: Trojans open Big Ten play Monday at Nebraska.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Freshman Jazzy Davidson scored a go-ahead layup with 4:05 remaining and finished with a season-best 24 points,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[56686,56684,56683,7,9,8,10110,30250,54952,56687,18158,1417,7556,56685,23138,34124,3533],"class_list":["post-104521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-bad-pass","tag-basket","tag-cal-threat","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-golden-bears","tag-jazzy-davidson","tag-londynn-jones","tag-lulu-twidale","tag-no","tag-point","tag-rebound","tag-sakima-walker","tag-trojans","tag-turnover","tag-usc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}