Updates: Recruiting

USC announced today that redshirt freshman Kasey Cunningham will miss the remainder of the season after being diagnosed with an ACL and lateral meniscus tear. The forward, who suffered the injury this week in practice, will undergo surgery to repair the damage within the next few weeks, and rehabilitation is expected to last up to […]

Redlands East Valley senior running back Chris Polk has backed out of an earlier verbal commitment to USC and will instead attend the University of Washington, he announced earlier this week. Polk’s commitment to the Huskies is firm enough that he will leave high school early and enroll at the university in January. It’s not […]

TJ McDonald, a junior safety at Fresno’s Edison HS, has verbally committed to attend USC beginning in 2009, it was announced on Friday. His father (and current coach) is former Trojan and NFL safety Tim McDonald. The younger McDonald received his scholarship offer one week ago, and clearly enjoyed his visit to campus for the […]

You heard it here third: Scott Wolf is reporting that Fox Sports is reporting that the Trojans have landed their first men’s basketball recruit for the class of 2009. Junior Evan Smith, a 6′7″ forward at Oaks Christian HS, has verbally committed to USC. Smith is the son of former UCLA basketball player Gavin […]

While USC had many recruits in attendance at the Coliseum for their 24-7 victory over UCLA on Saturday, one of those high school seniors was impressed enough with the Trojans to commit on the spot. Mater Dei offensive lineman Khaled Holmes gave his verbal commitment to the Trojan coaching staff in the postgame locker room.
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As expected, Compton’s Demar DeRozan and Beverly Hills High’s Percy “Lil’ Romeo” Miller signed letters of intent with USC at a Monday press conference held at the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills. The 6′6″ DeRozan can play the two or three and is ranked by many recruiting services as one of the top high school […]

USC announced on Sunday that former walk-on basketball player (and current USC senior) Reed Doucette was named a winner of a 2008 Rhodes Scholarship, becoming the fourth Trojan student-athlete in history to do so.
As for the current Trojans, they are back in Los Angeles for a few days of preparations leading up to a weekend […]

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 […]

Highly-recruited Harvard-Westlake forward Renaldo Woolridge announced his school decision Thursday, and it wasn’t USC. The 6′8″ Woolridge, son of former NBA player Orlando Woolridge, committed to Tennessee, choosing the Volunteers over the Trojans and the Georgetown Hoyas.
Woolridge seeing orange (Rivals, $)

The Trojans’ first official basketball practice of the year will be held tonight at the Galen Center, in a “Midnight Madness” event that’s open to the public. The event, which will begin at approximately 9:00p, following the conclusion of the USC-Oregon women’s volleyball game, is USC’s first such event in five years. (And yes, we […]