USC Basketball: Trojans Matchups Established For New Thanksgiving Tournament

The inaugural Rady Children's Invitational tournament in star guard Boogie Ellis' hometown of San Diego promises to be an action-packed affair for your USC Trojans men's basketball team.

Per USC's official Twitter account, the Trojans will play a pair of games back-to-back over the long Thanksgiving weekend in November. USC will first suit up against the Seton Hall Pirates on Thanksgiving Day proper, Thursday, November 23rd, at 2:30 p.m. PT.

On the other side of the mini-tourney bracket, the Oklahoma Sooners will play the Iowa Hawkeyes (members of USC's next NCAA conference, the Big Ten). The Trojans will subsequently face off against the winner of that contest on Friday the 24th. There is no current tip-off time scheduled for that next matchup.

USC spent last Thanksgiving in The Bahamas, playing in the Battle 4 Atlantis invitational event.

Powered by Ellis' 27 points (21 in the second half) on 7-of-9 shooting from the floor and 13-of-17 shooting from the charity stripe and four boards, plus 16 points on 6-of-12 shooting from the floor, 10 rebounds and six rebounds from now-graduated USC forward Drew Peterson, the Trojans bested BYU 82-76 in the first game of the Battle 4 Atlantis. USC fell to eventual event winner Tennessee in the next round, 73-66.

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