2024–25 USC Trojans men's basketball team explained

Sport:basketball
Year:2024–25
Prev Year:2023–24
Next Year:2025–26
Team:USC Trojans
Conference:Big Ten Conference
Short Conf:Big Ten
Record:5–3
Conf Record:0–0
Head Coach:Eric Musselman
Hc Year:1st
Asst Coach1:Will Conroy
Ac1 Year:1st
Asst Coach2:Todd Lee
Ac2 Year:1st
Asst Coach3:Michael Musselman
Ac3 Year:1st
Asst Coach4:Quincy Pondexter
Ac4 Year:1st
Asst Coach5:Anthony Ruta
Ac5 Year:1st
Arena:Galen Center
(Capacity: 10,258)

The 2024–25 USC Trojans men's basketball team represents the University of Southern California during the 2024–25 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Trojans are led by first-year head coach Eric Musselman and play their home games at the Galen Center for the 18th season in Los Angeles, California as first year members of the Big Ten Conference.

Previous season

The Trojans finished the 2023–24 season 15–18, 8–12 in Pac-12 Play to finish in a three-way tie for eighth place. As the No. 8 seed in the Pac-12 tournament, they defeated Washington in the first round before losing to Arizona.

On April 1, 2024, head coach Andy Enfield left the school to become the head coach at SMU.[1] On April 5, the school named Arkansas head coach Eric Musselman the team's new head coach.[2]

The season marked the team's last season as members of the Pac-12 Conference before joining the Big Ten Conference on July 1, 2024.

Offseason

Departures

Name Number Pos. Height Weight Year Hometown Reason for departure
0 G 6'6" 200 Junior Transferred to UCLA
1 G 6'5" 210 Freshman Declared for 2024 NBA draft; selected 29th overall by Utah Jazz
Vincent Iwuchukwu 3 F 7'1" 240 Sophomore Transferred to St. John's
Oziyah Sellers 4 G 6'5" 185 Sophomore Transferred to Stanford
5 G 6'3" 190 GS Senior Graduated/undrafted in 2024 NBA draft; signed with the Sacramento Kings
6 G 6'4" 210 Freshman Declared for 2024 NBA draft; selected 55th overall by Los Angeles Lakers
10 F 6'6" 225 GS Senior Graduated
Brandon Gardner 13 F 6'8" 215 Freshman Transferred to Arizona State
Zach Brooker 15 G 6'0" 160 Senior Walk-on; graduate transferred
Arrinten Page 22 F 6'11" 245 Freshman Transferred to Cincinnati
Joshua Morgan 24 F 6'11" 225 Senior Graduated
Kijani Wright 33 F 6'9" 235 Sophomore Transferred to Vanderbilt

Incoming transfers

Name Number Pos. Height Weight Year Hometown Previous school
0 F 6'7" 200 Senior Northern Colorado
1 G 6'6" 203 Junior Xavier
Matt Knowling 3 F 6'6" 200 GS Senior Yale
Bryce Pope 4 G 6'3" 185 GS Senior UC San Diego
Terrance Williams II 5 F 6'7" 225 GS Senior Michigan
Wesley Yates III 6 G 6'4" 200 Sophomore Washington
Chibuzo Agbo 7 G 6'7" 226 GS Senior Boise State
Kevin Patton Jr. 8 G 6'8" 197 Sophomore San Diego
Rashaun Agee 12 F 6'8" 225 GS Senior Bowling Green
Clark Slajchert 32 G 6'1" 170 GS Senior Penn
33 F 6'10" 220 GS Senior UMass

2024 recruiting class

Schedule and results

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Game summaries

This section will be filled in as the season progresses.

Source:

vs. Grambling State (Acrisure Classic Campus Site Game)

Rankings

See also: 2024–25 NCAA Division I men's basketball rankings.

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2024-04-02 . SMU hires Andy Enfield: USC coach leaves Trojans after 11 seasons to lead Mustangs into ACC era . 2024-04-15 . CBSSports.com . en.
  2. Web site: Wilner . Jon . 2024-04-05 . USC hires San Diego's Eric Musselman, and everything changes (everywhere) . 2024-04-15 . San Diego Union-Tribune . en-US.
  3. Web site: 2024–25 Men's Basketball Schedule. USC Athletics.