The USC Trojans’ NCAA Tournament hopes just took a major hit on Saturday.
Andy Enfield’s team lost to Oregon State, 61-58, in Corvallis in another poor offensive performance.
USC scored just 25 points in the first half and tried to manufacture a second-half comeback, but the buckets weren’t falling. A loss to the second-to-last-place team in the Pac-12 isn’t encouraging, and the Trojans struggled from 3-point land once again.
USC shot just 1-of-14 beyond the arc for 7.1 percent, and the Trojans shot 32.1 percent overall from the field in a concerning performance. The only three came from Boogie Ellis, who went just 1-of-7 on threes and scored 9 points on 2-of-9 shooting from the field.
The Trojans shot poorly on Thursday in the loss to the Oregon Ducks, and just when we thought it couldn’t get worse, they hit just one three the entire game against the Beavers.
The Trojans’ loss to Oregon State could crush their at-large hopes, and they need to likely win five of the last six games in the regular season. USC faces Cal, Stanford, Colorado, Utah, and then Arizona and Arizona State.
It begins with a bounce-back opportunity against Cal on Thursday, and let’s see if the Trojans’ offense can muster up some points to get back on track.
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