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USC women’s basketball analyst offers film study of 50-point blowout of Rutgers

USC women’s basketball analyst Cece Clay offers her latest 10-minute film study and box score breakdown of USC WBB. The Trojans crushed Rutgers.

USC women’s basketball analyst Cece Clay, who is collaborating with us on our Trojans Wired women’s basketball podcasts during the season, is back with another piece of video analysis. Cece went into the film room to look at several plays from USC’s 92-42 demolition of Rutgers on Sunday night. Cece, as she usually does, blends her film study with a box score breakdown, providing extensive and detailed analysis of the Women of Troy against Rutgers.

Cece is not just looking at the end results of games, plays, and possessions; she is also looking at the process of this USC coaching staff under Lindsay Gottlieb. Process matters when considering the intent of a play or strategy, which is meant to elicit growth and development in players regardless of the final score. This process at USC is meant to create maturity and consistency, which the Trojans will need in their Wednesday night showdown against Maryland. Cece offered some brief remarks on that game as well in this video at her TikTok channel.

Follow Cece on Twitter, TikTok, and her other social media accounts throughout the USC women’s basketball season. Turn to Cece for the best analysis you will find on the Women of Troy.

USC hammers Rutgers by 50 points in Sunday night runaway

USC beat Rutgers by 50 despite shooting under 33 percent on 3-pointers and committing 17 turnovers. Does that tell you how lopsided this game was?

The Piscataway Runaway. That’s one label for Sunday night’s USC-Rutgers women’s basketball game in New Jersey. USC women’s basketball marched to the East Coast and absolutely dismantled Rutgers in a game which was never close. One could tell five minutes in that Rutgers was not going to hang with the Women of Troy. This was a wipeout from start to finish. The final score was 92-42, and frankly, the game did not even feel that close.

USC could have won by 70, not 50, if it wanted to. Naturally, backups got a lot of fourth-quarter minutes, as the Trojans put the game to bed early. They led by 23 at halftime, 37-14, and then built that lead to 41 points (59-18) midway through the third quarter. USC came very close to holding Rutgers under 10 points in each of the first three quarters. Rutgers scored 10 in the third after managing just eight in the first and six in the second.

How lopsided was this game? Rutgers committed roughly twice as many turnovers (27) as the number of field goal attempts it made (14).

The scary part of all this: USC did not play a good offensive game. You might see the 92 points and think the Trojans played good offense, but they really didn’t. They hit just 9 of 28 3-pointers, under 33 percent. They committed 17 turnovers. That’s not elite. USC just had bigger, more physical players at all five spots on the floor. Rutgers was helpless, and the Trojans did their job. JuJu Watkins scored 23 points and grabbed 14 points to lead USC before a large Rutgers crowd which wanted to see JuJu do her thing. She most certainly did.

USC now prepares for a super showdown on Wednesday night at unbeaten Maryland. We’ll have a lot more on this game in the coming days. Stay tuned.

Trojans Wire previews USC-Rutgers, discusses the state of the Trojans under Lincoln Riley

A USC alumnus with New Jersey roots is the perfect person to talk to before the USC-Rutgers game this Friday. Our new show goes into the Trojans’ next game.

We have a USC football game on Friday night this week. Rutgers is the opponent. Adam Lamparello is both a USC alumnus and a New Jersey native who runs the Rutgers channel at The Voice of College Football. It was perfect timing for us at Trojans Wire to talk to Adam about the two teams he knows best: USC and Rutgers. You’ll get a Rutgers overview from Adam at the start of the show. Then we discussed the state of USC football under Lincoln Riley. It’s a one-hour show with plenty of insights on both Rutgers and USC, focusing mostly on the Trojans and what the program needs to do in order to be better in 2025.

USC fans are frustrated right now, and they should be. What are the foremost answers and solutions for this program? That’s the most important discussion to have if you’re a USC football fan. This show dives right into the heart of that conversation, so it’s something any Trojan fan should enjoy listening to.

Here’s the full show with Trojans Wire and Adam Lamparello at The Voice of College Football:

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