Updates from November 14th, 2007

Wednesday marks the first day that high school seniors can sign with colleges to play basketball beginning in the 2008-09 season. USC is expected to wait until next week to announce its signees, but the expected four-man Trojan class is popping up on national radar screens, thanks mainly to the likely signing of Compton swingman […]

USC (0-1) travels to Charleston, South Carolina to take on the unranked Bulldogs of The Citadel (1-1) at McAlister Field House on Thursday at 4:05p PST.
The matchup:
The two teams last met on November 21st of last year at the Galen Center, when the Trojans cruised to an easy 74-58 victory thanks to 24 points from […]

Trojan guard OJ Mayo appears–along with cross-town rival Kevin Love–on the regional cover of this week’s college basketball preview issue of Sports Illustrated. An article inside the magazine talks about the friendship between the two freshmen, and profiles Mayo, who tells SI that, “I try to make basketball like a chess game.”
SI may now have […]

Brian Cushing and Sedrick Ellis are among the Trojans taking advantage of USC’s bye week by sitting out practices to help heal minor injuries. In other news from Tuesday:

The bye week is also enabling some of the scout team players–such as receivers Brandon Carswell and Damian Williams and quarterbacks Aaron Corp and Mitch Mustain–to get […]