2011 USC College Basketball Season Outlook


October 28, 2011 | Posted By Larry Cook

Recap

Southern Cal experienced a mediocre year in 2010-11 having a 19-15 record and also a fourth place finish inside the Pac-10 conference.  In the Pac-10 tourney Southern Cal made it towards the semifinals, then proceeded to go down in the play-in game of the NCAA tournament to Virginia Commonwealth.

Southern Cal had results by becoming an excellent defensive group.  USC held their foes to 40.9% from the floor shooting and also to less than 64 points per contest.

The loss of Nikola Vucevic and Alex Stepheson will be tricky to replace.  Vucevic averaged more than 17 points every game and brought down more than 10 rebounds each game.  Stepheson was the group’s second best rebounder at 7.2 per night and also contributed just under 10 points.

2011-12 Overview

Kevin O’Neill has been the Trojan head coach for a couple of years and has supplied the enthusiasts teams that play hard and get better as the year goes on.  This season’s team has a lot of contributions to replace, but O’Neill does have Jio Fontan, Maurice Jones, and Garrett Jackson all back.  As well as a solid fresman class the Trojans brought in transfers Aaron Fuller and Dewayne Dedmon.

Backcourt

USC will be heavily depending on their backcourt starters of Fontan and Jones.  Fontan sat out the first semester last year, but returned to pace the team in assists and finished second in scoring at 10.5 points every night.

Jones was 3rd on the Trojans in scoring with 9.9 points every game, dished out 110 total assists, and established the team record with 69 steals as a freshman.  His achievements helped to earn him a spot on the conference All-Freshman squad.

Bryon Wesley is a 6’5″ freshman guard who’s anticipated to contribute to the offensive end immediately.  Alexis Moore is an additional freshman who should see action and contributes properly on each side sides of the court.  Junior college transfer Greg Allen is usually a lock down defender and can shoot the three.

Frontcourt

The Trojans 3 big men ought to be Aaron Fuller, Dewayne Dedmon, and James Blascyk.  Fuller was compelled be out last year soon after transferring over from Iowa.  In his sophomore season for the Hawkeyes he was honorable mention on the All-Big 10 team with 9.7 points and 6.7 rebounds per game.

These guys will likely be pushed in practice by a couple of transfers who can’t play this year.  Ari Stewart and Eric Wise transferred from Wake Forest and UC-Irvine, respectively.

Each and every year we supply our Southern Cal basketball preview in order to get you prepared to beat the NCAA basketball odds.

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