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USC Sunday Buzz: The Best Part Of Victory Over UCLA

The best part of USC’s 62-56 victory over UCLA on Saturday night is it prevents the media from continuing to carry water for Mick Cronin.

UCLA is 14-13 overall and will need to win the Pac-12 Tournament to make the NCAA Tournament. But up until UCLA lost its past two games, you still had pundits praising Cronin despite the fact UCLA’s been playing well below expectations.

USC was picked second in the Pac-12 preseason poll. UCLA was picked third. They both have underachieved.

The question for USC is why did it show some signs of life in Game 27? Kobe Johnson is shooting 38 percent this season but made 4 of 7 shots Saturday night. Boogie Ellis is shooting 43 percent but shot 50 percent vs. UCLA. They’ve both subpar this season but played better against the Bruins.

USC was still USC in some respects, making 10 of 20 free throws. UCLA shot 33 percent. Was that because of USC’s defense or the Bruins having a terrible shooting night? I know what UCLA fans think.

89 thoughts on “USC Sunday Buzz: The Best Part Of Victory Over UCLA”

  1. Last night the REAL preseason #2 and #3 teams played an epic game — championship caliber basketball —the likes of which won’t be seen again until the Final Four… all that is best in the world of college basketball was on displ….oh, ha ha ….. I can’t….I can’t do it …. it’s too easy…

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      6. And I bet you’re happy Scott deleted Board Cancer aka Cowardly Gabby aka TebowObama aka The Guy who posts as So Cal’s Wife & LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plow Horse & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young.

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      7. It’s sad Scott had to resort to that. But who can blame him? She’s been asked so many times to stop with the disgusting, perverted stuff. But she gets off on it. She’s not all there. She’ll lie & make excuses for it, but none of us including Scott are buying it.

        All the lies are bad enough, but tolerable. But sick, twisted stuff that she enjoys posting is not appreciated by anyone.

        Rationalizations & lies coming in 3, 2, 1….

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  3. I could not find one positive statement by Wolf re SC’s convincing victory over sucla, and yes, some nights a kid’s shooting will be better than other nights
    Out of the past 9 seasons 8 were stellar under Dandy Andy but myopic “fans” can’t see beyond the past season

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      1. You really think Scott Wolf has any fun, MG?
        I once had a childhood buddy who liked to burn ants
        So I guess ‘fun’ comes in different sizes

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      2. Imagine what a terror Cowardly Gabby aka TebowObama aka The Guy who posts as So Cal’s Wife & LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plow Horse & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young was like as a little girL?

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      6. I’m generally against censorship. But for someone to post the same dumb insults over & over & over again. Not to mention all the sick stuff she enjoys posting about sex toys & pedophilia. She really should visit freak sites if she wants to post that shit.

        Thank you, Scott!

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      7. Stalking?! LOL! You’re the one who replied to ME, Dumbass. The time stamps are there for all to see, you moron.

        As for taking bait….nice childish attempt at keeping me from calling out your stupidity. But I’ll do it any time I please. You really need to grow up. Even the names under which you post tell all that YOU are the problem on this site. Quit lying to yourself.

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  4. You want to see who the local 4th estate is ‘…carrying water…’ it’s for the LA Dodgers. Man everyday their ‘columnists’ write detailed accounts of what budding hire is petforming over in Phoenix. Never a spilled drop per the ‘other’ MLB team…the Angels. Nah just the usual adoration of the shrine to thd late ‘Vin Dawg’.

    What are the overs and unders of Roberts getting booted if he does his usual inept managing job this Autumn?

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  5. Interesting read about upcoming SC 2024 football season–
    It opines that the opening game with LSU is SC’s biggest of the year
    That Michigan lost guys but still sports great defensive front, so SC loss
    Penn St is no sloutch but at coliseum SC is favored
    Mystery game at Washington, the Huskies lost a ton of guys
    Notre Dame at coliseum, payback or pay-up?

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      1. You sayin’ the bloom came off the Wiley rose last season?
        I’d say the ‘bloom’ was dead-on-arrival after Neuter Dame
        and all that was left of his team were wind-blown sagebrushes

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      2. John — I think we’re saying the same thing…. Notre Dame is the game that came “after our first six”….
        #SanJose,Nevada, Stanford….
        #ArizonaState,Colorado,Arizona….
        #…BINGO!

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    2. Brian Kelly is the one that is on thin ice – consider in

      2022 he had the SEC CG against GA and lost 30 – 50 after bowl game against Purdue he finished at 10 – 4

      2023 near identical to 2022 – lost to TX A&M, MS and AL and ended the year 10 – 3

      The USC vs LSU game scheduled for 31st August 2024 Sunday at Allegiant Field in Las Vegas is the sole game being played that night on national television. The NFL pre-season is already over and the 1st game of the NFL regular season is set for the following Thursday 5th September KC Chiefs vs….

      This game is huge for both USC and LSU and that is why it will be a true bellwether for the rest of the year. LSU has a fairly manageable schedule with the sole road test @ TX A&M on 26th October rest solid opponents – AL, OK and MS – all home

      ‘If’ USC defeats LSU they have a challenging schedule but with both Harbaugh and DeBoer gone from MI & WA those two squads will be re-inventing themselves.

      Riley knows his entire coaching reputation rests on his reversing the disaster that was 2023 and now with HRH gone as well as Grinch with a completely revamped defense it looks pretty good save for this initial game. I don’t see ‘the princess’ as being prepared for their last game against USC – their schedule is ‘weak’ at best.

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      5. Hilarious when SHE has the nerve to say someone else has posted the same stale comment too many times. No one does that more than she does. It doesn’t even come close.

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      8. 7am….. And slo cal needs to let all the limp dicks know he woke up thinking about me. Out of the things he could reply to he picks talking about Gabby….

        He claims to not be obsessed with me which is another one of his many lies.

        He takes the bait and then cries about looking like an idiot for taking the bait. It’s like a child who keeps touching a hot stove.

        All he has to do is avoid me but the narcissism runs too deep…. Must suck to be him

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      9. The idiot who often posts about me when I haven’t even posted claims I’M obsessed. Not to mention all the times she uses a name referencing me! LMAO!

        She can’t go one full day without lying. What a shame.

        Again with her crying about “taking the bait”. Calling out her stupidity is no such thing. Just her childish way of trying to get me not to call it out. In her mentally deficient brain if she posts last, she thinks she’s won something, no matter how many lies are in the post.

        Stupid excuses and more lies in 3, 2, 1…

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  7. For some of the oldtimers who seldom experienced an SC basketball victory over sucla, since Enfield righted a sinking Trojan basketball ship his record versus sucla is 12-9 and versus Cronin 7-4

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    2. The real Oldtimers would remember Sam Barry, head basketball coach at USC, who defeated UCLA in 40 straight games from 1932 through 1946 (minus the World War II years Barry missed) and took USC to the Final Four.

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      2. I bet George Tirebiter remembers those dyas of USC mens hoops domination and making the NCAA Final Four in 1940 and 1954 under Forrest “Twogie” Twogood.

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  8. Now we know Ruin fans feel about beating us in down year.
    Happy but not satisfied is best description as wondering where last night’s team was all year.

    A win swwep next week at Washington’s would show team is righting the ship.

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    2. I don’t think victories in Washington state are going to happen
      but I hold out a scent of hope on a neutral court at the last hurrah
      Pac-12 Tournament

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      1. Honest question: How much do you think the “away” team gets homered in the [conference formerly known as] Pac 12?
        #SameAsEveryOtherConference?

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  9. USC Basketball wins, but it’s obviously this team is poorly coaches. -Executing the fundamentals of the game are key in basketball. Poor recruiting strategy- our front line is terrible if we don’t shoot well from the outside we lose against the physical teams we play. Our rebounding is horrible.
    Will Enfield survive probably this time but look for alot of players to transfer out due to the coaching staff we have now.

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    1. Everyone clutches for the easy answer: It’s Enfield’s fault!
      Maybe it’s time to look a little deeper — maybe it’s something else entirely…
      #….ScottWolf

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      1. It is Enfield’s fault, he hires the assistants, he recruits the players, he ” coaches ” them, he game plans ( maybe ), whose fault is it ?

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      2. …according to first person accounts, up to 4 bottles of white wine a day…..what that once attractive woman has done to herself…..
        #Physically&Spiritually…..

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      3. Mike what you stated per the daily consumption of ‘vino’ by Hillary goes right to the reality of the nationwide explosion in female bodies over the past 20 years – not due to normal aging but the huge consumption of wine. It is addictive and full of sugar. If one drinks 2 bottles a week by the end of one years there is a cool 15 lb weight gain. It is sad – no fan of hers but yeah she was a a very good looking woman back in the day and now she looks like Java the Hut’s stepchild.

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  11. Reaching back to the comment of who was alive during the 1932 to 1946 golden SC basketball period, well our George Tirebiter was,
    94 years young in June

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  12. Scooter,

    The ugly fans represented ugly and showed its true colors of being a douche bag chanting F##k SC. You could here it on the tv and Sean Fraham, an ex ugly player said he apologized for the language. Stay classy ruins

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    1. But it’s ok for you to repeatedly call someone a slut…. Interesting!

      Give me another one of your lame ass excuses.

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