The NCAA Tournament is going to be held in empty arenas with only essential personnel. Has anyone seen how empty arenas are for NCAA games anyways? This is good for USC because it is used to playing in a near-empty arena. “It’s terrible, energy is gonna be off, everyone I talked to is pretty upset about it,” USC forward Nick Rakocevic said. “It’s just not … Continue reading USC Will Play In Empty Arenas At NCAA Tournament

This morning, Ben Bolch of the Los Angeles Times tweeted that UCLA was flying to Las Vegas on a charter flight while USC was flying commercial for the Pac-12 Tournament. A few hours later, Bolch tweeted USC was now flying charter to Las Vegas. Peer pressure? UPDATED: For the skeptics, it looks like Bolch tweeted a conversation with a USC official: pic.twitter.com/ZrJahp3dfo — Ben Bolch … Continue reading USC Keeps Up With UCLA

USC basketball assistant coach Jason Hart is a candidate for the Loyola Marymount job, which recently opened, according to sources. Ironically, LMU coach Mike Dunlap was also a former USC assistant. Hart has recruited pretty much every player on the roster outside of Isaiah Mobley and USC would not want to lose him. He got a new contract and raise three years ago to turn … Continue reading USC Assistant Jason Hart Candidate At Loyola Marymount

The way the TV schedule is set up for the Pac-12 Tournament, USC will only be on the Pac-12 Network until the championship game, if it gets that far. If USC reaches the 6 p.m. semifinal game, it will be on the Pac-12 Network. The second semifinal game, at 8:30 p.m., will be on Fox Sports 1. If USC was the No. 3 seed, like … Continue reading Good Luck Watching USC Without Pac-12 Network This Week

Onyeka Okongwu was a first-team All-Pac-12 selection. Jonah Mathews made the second team. Okongwu also made the freshman team and Mathews made the All-Defensive team. Here is the full teams and individual awards: ALL-PAC-12 TEAM FIRST TEAM Name School Pos. Yr. Hometown Oscar da Silva Stanford F Jr. Munich, Germany CJ Elleby Washington State F So. Seattle, Wash. Remy Martin Arizona State G Jr. Chatsworth, … Continue reading Onyeka Okongwu Makes First-Team All-Pac-12

This is an interesting development: USC’s official attendance for Saturday’s basketball game was 7,622. This seems . . . accurate. Capacity for the Galen Center is 10,258 but both sides of the upper deck had plenty of empty seats. The attendance figure is surprising because normally USC football attendances are inflated by at least 10,000. Some of these empty seats could have been reserved for … Continue reading An Accurate Galen Center Attendance