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USC Will Not Play In NIT After Loss To Washington

Eric Musselman said he did not expect USC to play in the NIT.

“I would assume we’re not going to play,” Musselman said.

Musselman also said he can’t wait to get started on next year.

That’s another way of saying you’ve had enough of the current team. Well, that’s on Musselman. He recruited them. He paid them. He coached them. Alijah Arenas didn’t even play the final 6:11 against Washington today.

USC lost eight straight games and can’t even muster the energy to play in the NIT.

Musselman and the Trojans fell apart at the end of the season. A total step backwards this season.

24 thoughts on “USC Will Not Play In NIT After Loss To Washington”

  2. aT 4.5 MILLION A YEAR WHY NOT LOOK FORWARD TO ANOTHER SEASON AT SC even with an empty Galen Center.

    Musselman is a big phony…. THE NIT PROBABLY DOESN’T WANT A TEAM THAT HAS LOST 6 GAMES IN A ROW.

    Next season USC will have once again 10-12 transfers all around 6’5 or 6’6.

    Anyone notice that some of of the players who had another of Musselman after 1 season had very good seasons. Jason Shelley who sat the bench last year was Loyola’s leading scorer. Agee, our power forward last year had a great season at Texas A&M.

    Musselman…….must go………I would not give him the opportunity of another season. We will have to start over every year with this guy let him go coach in Europe or the D-League.

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    2. Agree. I think it’s time to move on from Musselman. It seems like he was the only coach that SC interviewed. Why didn’t they give Randy Bennett of St.Mary’s a call? He’s able to win with little NIL money there. I would think he would do great things for the Trojans.

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    3. Agree. I think it’s time to move on from Musselman. It seems like he was the only coach that SC interviewed. Why didn’t they give Randy Bennett of St.Mary’s a call? He’s able to win with little NIL money there. I would think he would do great things for the Trojans.

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      1. Arenas, the five star lottery pick, had six points in thirty minutes with no threes. Another low character recruit who has checked out without leaving the team. This was an opportunity for him to show some leadership in a winnable game. Muss should be fired on the tarmac, and I agree that USC should look for a coach like Bennett who has proved that he can coach. Calipari started the one and done craze at Kentucky, but Coach Cal could coach his recruits up and get them to be lottery picks. Let’s get a high character coach who has a winning system and give him time to develop a team by judiciously using NIL when deserved. Arenas should be at best a third round pick until he learns to be a team player. Fight on, Dan, Class of 1962

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  4. There is very little interest in Basketball at USC. The program loses money every year. If we had a solid team, the Galen Center would still be mostly empty on a typical week night. So why continue with the charade. Find a coach who will accept a paycheck of $300,000 a year and pay the players $100,000 each or a combined yearly NIL of one million plus tuition, room and board. My guess is that this compensation is commensurate with St. Mary, Cal-State Long Beach, San Diego State, UC Irvine, and others and many of these programs field teams that are competitive or superior to USC.

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  5. Musselman must go…. The popular vote is in the majority wants Musselman out before he ruins this program further.

    The guy is a loser…he should be somewhere like Kansas State –

    No more 1 year wonders- anyone can bring in cast offs from other programs, and over pay them like the coach. Once the boosters cut Musselman off he will be gone.

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  6. TO pay a coach 4.5m- you must win immediately. IMusselman is a top 12 highest paid basketball coaches in America. Talk about being overpaid his program is one of the worst in college basketball.

    FIRE MUSSELMAN!!

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  7. Bowl games are supposed to be beneficial for the extra practices and real game experience especially for younger players even in meaningless bowls. Isn’t that also true for the NIT so that the younger players could get more experience against good competition. Of course if you only recruit 22-26 year olds, you may not have any young players to develop and the older players who have used up their eligibility and weren’t going to class anyway can get on with their careers in the NBA D league or at MacDonald’s. A coach is supposed to be a teacher….I guess that Muss was not attending the education class where the goals of good teaching were taught. Fight on, Dan, Class of 1962

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  8. I felt the program went off the cliff when Enfield got them to the ‘elite eight’ in 2021 but hadn’t a clue on how to lower his own intense which moved onto the players as they got blown out by Gonzaga in the first 5 minutes of that game. It showed a lack of real confidence by Enfield as to ‘….you’ve worked for this so have the players…believe in them and your own skill and back off and relax…’

    Yes Musselman should be sacked but bluntly who cares about ‘basketball’?

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  9. say what you want about Muscle-Man, he doesn’t lose his temper and chew out his team when they don’t play with effort! Heaven forbid he blow up at team like Scrappy Mick Cronin did! Sure it set of a streak of winning their next four of five at the most crucial part of season! But then Scott Wolf would go around calling him an “angry gnome”!!

    #YouWouldn’tLikeScrappyMickWhenHe’sAngry

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  11. KAM: USC NBA draft prospect Alijah Arenas refuses to see his dreams derailed by “bad luck.”

    DON: Alijah Arenas was expected to be one-and-done at USC, but a Cybertruck crash, knee injury and “bad luck” has clouded the NBA draft prospect’s future. Bad luck = choke job against UW.

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    1. Get off his back! We came SO close to playing in the NIT this season. Reminds me how close we came to winning the Sun Bowl. “We just made mistakes at the worst possible time.”

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      3. A hand full of layups, a handful of 3 pointers, a handful of tackles, a handful of scores inside the 5 yard line….

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  12. Let see Musselman has been at SC …for two seasons, and is now looking forward to another season at 4.5 million a year…

    SO FAR ZERO TURN ON OUR INVESTMENT– OF 9 MILLION IN JUST THE HEAD COACH WHICH DOES NOT INCLUDE ASSISTANT COACHES ONE BEING HIS SON, AND THE NIL which apparently comes from boosters which must be slowly disappearing especially for the Basketball Program, and the DUDS MUSSELMAN RECOMMENDED WE SIGN. THE GALEN CENTER ATTENDANCE IS SHRINKING CAN YOU BLAME THE LACK OF INTEREST FROM OUT FANS WITH THIS GUY AS HEAD COACH. KEVIN ONEIL –THE 2ND = ERIC MUSSELMAN. Lots of stops in his career, but very little success, and both are jerks with lots of excuses.

    MAKE THE CHANGE JEN COHEN or make Musselman take a pay cut ,and make a strong contribution to the NIL Funds need ed to acquire better players. Musselman, is a former NBA D-League coach who had to work with an entirely new roster every year unfortunately that’s how he thought he could build a solid program at SC but it will never work out in college basketball unless your Duke. Musselman, seems to recruit guys who have many stops in basketball just like him, but at least Duke recruits high school seniors, and develops them quickly rather than rejects.

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