USC Basketball: How Trojans' Loss To Stanford Inspired Win Over Utah
Your 10-15 USC Trojans may still have virtually no shot at making the NCAA Tournament this season (they would have to win the Pac-12 Tournament to qualify, a tall task for a team that can't score), but that doesn't mean they're not still doing their darnedest to compete as their season winds down.
Following a miserable 99-68 blowout loss to the 12-12 Stanford Cardinal last weekend, USC rallied in a big way with a surprise 68-64 victory over the 15-10 Utah Utes on Thursday.
After the game, head coach Andy Enfield explained that the club desperately wanted to move on from its brutal defeat at the hands of a .500 Cardinal squad, per Luca Evans of The Orange County Register.
“I’m very proud of them, bouncing back. They were embarrassed [in the Cardinal game]," Enfield said.
It was an exciting moment, albeit during a still-probably doomed season.
Freshman guard Isaiah Collier led the way for the Trojans with 15 points on 6-of-15 shooting from the field and 3-of-3 shooting from the foul line, along with six assists, five rebounds and three steals. Redshirt seniors DJ Rodman (12 points on 4-of-8 shooting from the floor and 2-of-2 shooting from the charity stripe, seven rebounds, four assists) and Boogie Ellis (11 points on 4-of-14 shooting and 2-of-5 shooting from the line) were the club's only other two players to score in double figures on the night.
