Southern Cal College Basketball Season Predictions

Recap

USC experienced a decent year in 2010-11 having a 19-15 record along with a 4th place showing within the Pac-10. In the conference tournament Southern Cal made it towards the semifinals, then proceeded to go down in the play-in game of the tournament to VCU.

USC experienced results by becoming an excellent defensive team. USC held their foes to 40.9% from the floor shooting and also to 63.3 points each contest.

The loss of Nikola Vucevic and Alex Stepheson is going to be challenging to replace. Vucevic averaged more than 17 points every game and brought down 10.3 boards each game. Stepheson was the group’s 2nd best rebounder at more than 7 per game and also contributed just under 10 points.

2011-12 Overview

Kevin O’Neill has been the USC head coach for two seasons and has given the supporters teams that play tough and get better as the season progresses. This season’s group has a whole lot of production to replace, but O’Neill does have Jio Fontan, Maurice Jones, and Garrett Jackson returning. Along with a sound recruiting class the Trojans brought in transfers Aaron Fuller and Dewayne Dedmon.

Backcourt

Southern Cal will be heavily relying on their backcourt starters of Fontan and Jones. Fontan sat out the first semester last year, but returned to pace the group in assists and finished 2nd in points at more than ten points per game.

Jones was 3rd on the Trojans in offense with 9.9 points per contest, gave out 110 total assists, and established the school record with 69 steals as a freshman. His achievements helped to receive a place on the Pac-10 All-Freshman squad.

Bryon Wesley is a 6’5″ freshman perimeter player who’s expected to help to the offensive side right away. Alexis Moore is yet another freshman who really should see time and plays well on both sides sides of the floor. Junior college transfer Greg Allen can be a solid defender and can shoot well from outside.

Frontcourt

The Trojans three post players ought to be Aaron Fuller, Dewayne Dedmon, and James Blascyk. Fuller was forced be out last season immediately after transferring over from Iowa. In his sophomore season at Iowa he was honorable mention on the All-Conference team with 9.7 points and almost 7 boards each night.

These players will be pushed in practice by a couple of transfers who will sit out this year. Ari Stewart came over from Wake Forest and Eric Wise is a transfer from UC-Irvine.

Each and every year we offer you our Southern Cal basketball preview in order to get you prepared to beat the college basketball lines.

Southern Cal College Basketball Season Predictions

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