USC Outlasts Santa Clara To Improve To 2-0
Freshman Maurice Jones scored 29 points as Southern Cal beat Santa Clara 86-73 on Monday night.
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Freshman Maurice Jones scored 29 points as Southern Cal beat Santa Clara 86-73 on Monday night.
After escaping with a win in the Coliseum over Arizona St. last week, the Trojans followed up with a win over Arizona in Tucson to enter the AP Top 25.
Marc Tyler ran for a career-high 160 yards and Southern California climbed into a tie with Arizona for third in the Pac-10 with a 24-21 victory over the 18th-ranked Wildcats on Saturday night.
The big and the small of it got things done for Southern California. Nikola Vucevic scored 17 of his career-high-tying 19 points in the second half as the Trojans defeated UC Irvine 62-49 in their season opener Saturday.
Lazeric Jones scored 15 points in his Division I debut and UCLA routed Cal State Northridge 83-50 in the teams' season opener Friday night.
Humbled in a blowout loss at Stanford, the 18th-ranked Arizona Wildcats are trying to stay relevant in a Pac-10 race that seems to be leaving them behind.
Except for Oregon at the top and Washington State at the bottom, the Pac-10 has played out just like its coaches predicted, a win-one, lose-one trade off by teams unable distinguish themselves from one another.
Reserve Brandon Paul scored all of his 18 points on 3-pointers to lead No. 13 Illinois to a 79-65 season-opening win over UC-Irvine on Monday night in the opening round of the 2K Sports Classic.
Illinois doesn't expect depth to be a concern with all five starters and seven of its top eight scorers back from last season. That experience could be important as the team deals with very high expectations.
