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With teams focusing on JuJu Watkins, Kennedy Smith is USC's March Madness X factor

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Top-seeded USC faces North Carolina Greensboro in the NCAA tournament.

The Trojans are relying heavily on freshman starters Kennedy Smith and Kiki Iriafen .

Smith is the No. 1 recruiting class in the country, as well as fellow freshmen Avery Howell and Kayleigh Heckel .

Smith is third on the team in scoring ( 9.5 points), while emerging as one of the best on-ball defenders in the Big Ten.

She's a self-proclaimed perfectionist, but she's been hard on herself this season .

Her teammates say she expects greatness out of herself, but it's just in her nature.

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