USC men's basketball comes close to pulling off what would have been the biggest win of the budding Eric Musselman era before losing 68-60 to Oregon.
Little about the first month of his first season at USC had gone as Eric Musselman hoped. His USC offense had struggled to score. His defense struggled to get stops. And on the glass, only a few of college basketball’s 355 teams had been worse than the Trojans, who struggled with dispatching the likes of Grambling and Texas Arlington.
The Trojans looked like a totally different team during their Big Ten debut, clamping down on defense and outmuscling Oregon on the boards. Until the Ducks got hot late, USC had held them to a meager 30% from the field through 32 minutes. But the final eight would prove to be the issue. Point guard Desmond Claude did his best to carry the Trojans across the finish line with a season-high 22 points. Outside of Claude, though, few of USC’s shooters managed to find their stroke.
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