Sometimes, the truth hurts, and there’s only one way to make the truth hurt less: Change the truth.
Oregon head coach Dana Altman said something very simple and factual about USC this past week at Pac-12 basketball media day in San Francisco, before the start of the new college basketball season. He didn’t intend it to be mean. He was just stating a basic fact about the past 10 years of Pac-12 basketball.
Nevertheless, USC needs to absorb what Altman said and use it as fuel for the coming campaign.
There’s a lot to catch up on in the world of USC hoops with the season just over a week away. Let’s take you through the various news items of interest, including the new preseason USA TODAY Sports Coaches Poll, in which USC was left out of the top 25: