USC Trojans men's basketball

J.T. Rock is at Kansas State.

Isaac Bruns is now at USC.

Reese Ross, she played at St. Thomas More.

She's now playing for Baylor.

Darius is seven foot, so he's literally, like, an inch taller.

Anyways, the Trojans got 21 from their returning player, Elijah Arenas, and most importantly probably, Rodney Rice looked healthy.

The veteran guard scored 15, dished out nine assists, and grabbed six boards in 32 minutes of action.

Nice win for the 21st ranked Trojans.

Also later on, we saw 25th ranked BYU in a nice matchup I previewed against Ohio State.

I said it was gonna have to be the Robert Wright show coming out of AJ D'Bansa's shadow this year, and he did nothing to make me a liar anyway on opening night.

So that'll be a fun game to see those two programs that are, you know, just never happy.

blue bloods right now the fans can commiserate together about their frustration so that'll be a fun game and then i'll find some more i used to go to maui every single year i don't do that anymore but maui's always a good time just for you know kind of get you in the college basketball mood but yeah usc i'll go to one or two games depending on how that team looks i'm a little bit you know wary about believing in i like it on paper but i'm not sure how much i believe in that team but i'll get a chance to see like michigan when they come out here i think i'm gonna go to that game Yeah, so I'll be bouncing around on the West Coast.

You didn't see that video of, gosh, his name's forsaken me, the head coach of USC on the beach.

Oh, Eric Musselman, yeah.

He's a maniac.

In 2025, it was Terrace Reed and Samson Johnson.

And last year, it was Terrace Reed and then Eric Riba who transferred to USC.

Looking at what we've seen in the preseason, a very small sample size, Seton Hall transfer Najai Hines and Stanford transfer Oscar Giltay have enough inside of them to give UConn another two-headed monster at center.

The Huskies, again, are going to be in a situation where they're going to be at the top of the sport.

This is only October.

And then nugget number three, go West.

I'm talking about the start to the season for Eric Musselman and USC.

I am bullish on the Trojans making a big jump this season under Eric Musselman being one of the most improved teams in college basketball.

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Hello and welcome into the USC Triple-Double Podcast.

I'm your host, Shotgun Spryling.

Along with my co-host today, RJ Abadia.

RJ, how are we doing today?

I'm doing great.

It's that magical time of the year when college sports double dips gets us triple dips in the case of USC women's basketball as well.

But it's time to start thinking about hoops.

We've got Corey Tulaba in the house.

And today we're breaking down I think it's fair to say a diversive, a divisive, a interesting, a dynamic prospect in Elijah Arenas, a guy who is entering into his second season at USC, a player who in his freshman season went through a pretty tumultuous season, struggled with some injuries, struggled with some injuries.

which we found out later a um a wild locker room at times with some of the stuff that they had going on but he was weighing a lot going through a lot and now he's back for year two of the trojan experience and so we're really excited to break down his game there's a lot that we need to Talk through and consider once again that freshman season was not like a normal cookie cutter freshman season for him.

He went through a lot, had to overcome a lot.

And so if you can, Corey, first off, hit us with some of the essentials on Elijah Arenas.

Elijah

Arenas, USC guard slash wing, will be 20.3 years old on draft night.

USC lists him at 6'7", 199 pounds.

Ken must eliminate some of those distractions with Baker Mazzara and everything that happened.

Can Rodney Rice be fully healthy? USC is another one to keep an eye on.

But those two at the top.

And then Michigan, right? Like Mike Boyden, you know, he's returning the NCAA tournament MVP.

You look at Nebraska and is anybody on there? Price Sanford can make 10 threes in a row, but every other night he might go three for 11.

Does anyone on that Nebraska roster really scare you all that much? I don't know.

I think you look at USC.

They were banged up all last season.