The Trojans can erase any NCAA tournament bubble talk with a victory over the No. 8 Wildcats on Thursday at the Galen Center
LOS ANGELES — The USC men’s basketball team has the chance to add a couple feathers to its cap Thursday against Arizona.
But the game against the eighth-ranked Wildcats represents more to USC than a couple of historical footnotes. A victory would likely eliminate all bubble speculation about the Trojans, putting them firmly in the NCAA tournament field. That would have been hard to believe entering the season, with USC having such a young roster. But here the Trojans are.
That is easier said than done against a team like Arizona, which jumped out to an early lead on the Trojans in Tucson last month andUSC was all kinds of discombobulated in that game. It could not score consistently at any level of the court, struggling in the paint against the Wildcats’ front court of Oumar Ballo and Azuolas Tubelis while shooting 4 for 17 from 3-point range.
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