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USC, Andy Enfield land 4-star combo guard from North Carolina for 2023 class

#USC football recruiting is going well. Basketball just landed 4-star guard Silas Demary to boost the 2023 class. This comes one month before Isaiah Collier’s decision.

The middle of football season at USC is a big deal once again, now that the Trojans have been revived by Lincoln Riley.

One year ago at this time, the only football story USC fans cared about (rightly so) was the coaching search and the man who would take over from Clay Helton. In October of 2021, USC’s big sports pursuit between the white lines of competition was in men’s basketball. The hoops program was coming off an Elite Eight run. It brought back most of its starting five (Isaiah Mobley, Drew Peterson, Chevez Goodwin) and added some pieces to create what was clearly an NCAA Tournament roster. The Trojans lived up to their NCAA Tournament preseason status and produced a strong top-three finish in the Pac-12, collecting the most regular-season wins in school history.

In October of 2022, all eyes are on the football program, but don’t forget that basketball is trying to come back and make the NCAA Tournament yet again. Andy Enfield is trying to build on the past few seasons.

He took a big step forward on Friday.

USC landed four-star combo guard Silas Demary:

This recruitment comes one month before five-star guard Isaiah Collier, one of the very best prospects in the country, makes his decision. Collier, according to industry analysts, has USC and Cincinnati as his final two choices.

Collier will announce his decision on Nov. 16.

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USC is viewed as one of two finalists for game-changing 5-star point guard

Isaiah Collier would be a huge recruit for #USC and Andy Enfield. The Trojans are locked in a battle with one other school. We could get news by early October.

We interrupt our coverage of Lincoln Riley’s first football season at USC to bring you a very important piece of basketball recruiting news.

We could soon get an announcement date and then a revelation of one top recruit’s choice for the 2023 class.

Isaiah Collier, a top-five 2023 national recruit in the eyes of nearly every recruiting service, is an elite high school player. More than that, however, he is a point guard.

USC basketball fans can tell you, as can we: The Trojans desperately need an equation-changing point guard if they really and truly want to become a Final Four-level program which gets high NCAA Tournament seeds and can regularly make the second weekend of the Big Dance every March.

It might seem like empty bluster or knee-jerk embellishment to call any recruit a game-changer. No, Collier truly would be a game-changer. That’s not hyperbole or lazy, hype-driven salesmanship. Give USC a point guard surrounding all the defensive length Andy Enfield puts on a court. That’s the missing piece, folks. USC has been looking for a special point guard since Jordan McLaughlin left the program to become a valuable NBA player.

There’s a lot to tell you about Collier’s recruitment: