JuJu Watkins winced, shaking her left hand, the collective basketball world holding its breath. The first 10 minutes of USC’s tournament debut had been disconcerting enough already. Errant passes sailed ...
Kennedy Smith was only 14, just a few games into her freshman season at Etiwanda High, when she first crossed paths on the court with Kiki Iriafen, who played at ...
When USC rose last March to the top line of the NCAA tournament, after almost four decades in relative obscurity, it felt at the time like the culmination of a ...
INDIANAPOLIS — Desmond Claude sprinted as fast as he could down the hardwood, knowing the season was in his hands and precious time was ticking off the clock. He already tried once ...
INDIANAPOLIS — They’d withstood one wave after another, their season hanging in the balance with seemingly every possession. Nothing had come simply for USC through this frustrating first campaign under Eric Musselman, ...
INDIANAPOLIS — They stormed from the bench to mob one another at midcourt, streamers and confetti falling from the rafters. Finally, after so much had gone wrong against their rivals in two ...
“Are you gonna wear those?” Eric Musselman stares down at a pair of beat-up, brown boat shoes with his eyebrows raised. His smirk suggests I’ve chosen the wrong footwear for ...
Aday Mara corralled the ball in the paint as the seconds trickled toward zero. The 7-foot-3 Bruin bench giant battled four Trojans surrounding him and lifted a shot a few ...
INDIANAPOLIS — It had been a forgettable afternoon for JuJu Watkins when she found herself confronted by a double team on the low block early in the fourth quarter. To that point, ...
INDIANAPOLIS — Lindsay Gottlieb had warned of this very possibility, that her team’s opener in the Big Ten women’s basketball tournament might have the feel of an NCAA tournament game given the ...
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