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Notable sports activities figures akin to NBA stars Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook and others have been noticed supporting their groups all through the lads’s and ladies’s NCAA tournaments.
Within the opening spherical on Saturday, the Bryant household, Basketball Corridor of Famer Cheryl Miller and high NFL draft prospect Caleb Williams have been among the many notable followers to help JuJu Watkins and No. 1 seed USC in its victory over No. 16 seed Texas A&M-Corpus Christi within the ladies’s event.
On Monday, USC soccer coach Lincoln Riley, Heisman-winning quarterback Matt Leinart and former NBA guard John Wall have been in attendance on the Trojans’ second-round sport towards the No. 8 seed Kansas Jayhawks.
Stars are out in Cali 🤩#MarchMadness pic.twitter.com/DG21sHVEc4
— NCAA March Insanity (@MarchMadnessWBB) March 26, 2024
This is a have a look at extra movie star sightings all through the 2024 NCAA tournaments.
San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy confirmed out for the Iowa State Cyclones on Sunday. The Cyclones confronted the No. 2 seed Stanford Cardinal within the second spherical of the ladies’s basketball event.
Purdy spent 4 seasons at Iowa State, beginning 46 straight video games in his profession. He threw for 12,170 yards and 81 touchdowns plus had 993 completions, all faculty data. The 49ers drafted Purdy with the ultimate choose within the 2022 NFL draft, making him “Mr. Irrelevant.”
Iowa State misplaced to Stanford in extra time, 87-81.
Vibes are HIGH with QB1 in the home 🤩
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— Cyclone Basketball (@CycloneWBB) March 25, 2024
The Bryant household, Cheryl Miller, Caleb Williams
The Trojans have all the time drawn a crowd — this time it was the Bryant household, Miller and Williams.
The Bryant household — Vanessa, Kobe’s widow, and kids Natalia, Bianka and Capri — was out to help Watkins, who wore Kobe’s signature sneakers all through her freshman 12 months.
Miller’s ties to the Trojans is cemented in legend — as she’s helped the Trojans to back-to-back nationwide titles in 1983 and 1984. Watkins broke Miller’s all-time single-season scoring report whereas Miller was in attendance.
The 2023 Heisman Trophy winner was in attendance as properly. Williams, the 2024 NFL draft’s projected No. 1 total choose, spent two years because the Trojans’ quarterback.
Durant, a 14-time NBA All-Star now taking part in for the Phoenix Suns, was a one-and-done participant for the Texas Longhorns in 2006-07, however his lone season was a adorned one. He turned the primary freshman to be a consensus nationwide participant of the 12 months and averaged 25.8 factors and 11.1 rebound per video games. Durant was in attendance for 1-seed Texas’ win over 8-seed Alabama within the ladies’s spherical of 32.
Nina and Russell Westbrook
LA Clippers guard Russell Westbrook performed two seasons at UCLA and helped the Bruins advance to the Closing 4 within the 2006-07 and 2007-08 seasons.
His spouse, Nina, additionally performed basketball at UCLA and was an honorable point out for the Pac-10 All-Freshman and All-Defensive groups in 2007-08.
The Westbrooks have been there to look at the No. 2 seed Bruins defeat 15-seed California Baptist within the first spherical of the ladies’s event.
