USC signs women’s basketball coach Lindsay Gottlieb to extension through 2030

LOS ANGELES – As she watched proudly from the sidelines in Las Vegas in March, tears and confetti and hugs melding together on the postgame hardwood in one post-Pac-12-championship mishmash, JuJu Watkins’ mother Sari offered a definitive take on the coach who’d brought USC here.

“I think Lindsay (Gottlieb),” Sari Watkins pondered, “is the best coach in the NCAA. Because she gives herself space to grow, and her approach is very open – in the development process between her and the player.”