The No. 1 UConn women's basketball team entered Saturday's matchup against the No. 16 USC Trojans at Galen Center in Los Angeles, looking to notch its 10th win of the 2025-26 college basketball season and staying undefeated .

This game deserves so much attention just for how good both teams are, but it is turning even more heads because of how the Huskies and the Trojans are paying tribute to former Los Angeles Lakers superstar Kobe Bryant and her daughter, Gigi Bryant in the contest.

“To pay homage to Kobe and Gigi Bryant, who would’ve been in her freshman year at UConn, USC and UConn players are all wearing different pairs of Kobe’s for today’s game,” Ryan Kartje of The Los Angeles Times shared via a social media post on X, formerly Twitter, just before the game started.

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