The introduced sold-out crowd by no means materialized Thursday at Galen Heart. However with a expertise like Isaiah Collier taking part in, followers might quickly flock downtown to catch a glimpse of the 6-foot-5 guard.
The highest-ranked recruit within the nation dazzled in his house faculty debut with 19 factors, 5 assists, 4 steals and three rebounds in USC’s 85-59 blowout of Cal State Bakersfield. Sophomore guard Oziyah Sellers had 16 factors as USC had 5 double-digit scorers. Switch ahead DJ Rodman had 11 factors within the first half, together with three three-pointers, and completed with 15.
USC’s Isaiah Collier shoots over Cal State Bakersfield’s Tom Mark throughout the first half Thursday at Galen Heart.
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Senior guard Kaleb Higgins led the Roadrunners (1-1) with 19 factors.
Collier fueled a 12-0 USC run to complete the primary half, scoring or helping on 9 of the factors because the No. 21 Trojans (2-0) took a 47-23 lead. He sank two free throws, dished an help to Sellers on a three-pointer and poked the ball away from Bakersfield’s Naseem Gaskin earlier than driving baseline and kissing a reverse layup off the glass that lightly spun by the rim. It was only a precursor to his first-half finale.
Collier capped the scoring streak with a slick crossover dribble on the three-point line, driving into the lane and tossing up one other up-and-under layup between two defenders.
Comic Chris Rock stood up from his courtside seat and cheered. Collier shook his head nonchalantly towards the packed pupil part that was crammed greater than an hour earlier than the sport.
The guard from Atlanta might be the important thing to galvanizing a fan base that has but to totally embrace the lads’s basketball program regardless of its latest success. The Trojans are coming off a school-record fourth consecutive 20-win season, however averaged simply the eighth-best house attendance within the Pac-12 final 12 months.
USC’s different new star attraction sat on the finish of the bench in a grey sweatsuit.
Bronny James, who suffered cardiac arrest this summer time, is progressing towards a check-up appointment on the finish of the month, his father, LeBron James, instructed reporters this week. If the outcomes are constructive, then the freshman from Sierra Canyon quickly will be part of his teammates at follow.
James bought loud applause when he was launched earlier than the sport. One fan sat a number of rows behind a basket sporting a James Jr. No. 6 jersey. The freshman was considered one of 4 energetic faculty basketball gamers whose jerseys had been made accessible with their names for the primary time by a reputation, picture and licensing partnership with Nike and Dick’s Sporting Items. The others are girls’s stars — USC’s JuJu Watkins, Connecticut’s Paige Bueckers and Iowa’s Caitlin Clark.
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