USC women’s basketball is playing quality competition in the Pac-12 Conference. We know the league is a cutthroat place and a real grind for nearly every team. Only Stanford, at 7-1 in the Pac-12, has truly avoided the meat grinder of the conference. Every other team has been beaten up to a certain extent through one month of competition. As February begins, USC — with four losses in the Pac-12 — knows it needs to be a lot better. Lindsay Gottlieb will make sure of that.
Gottlieb recently appeared on The Triple-Double podcast from Shotgun Spratling and Connor Morrissette of 247Sports. She took full responsibility for USC not being fully prepared or awake in a sluggish loss to the Washington Huskies. The defeat was USC’s first home-court loss this season. Gottlieb said on the show that it felt like the first time all season her team took the court with “USC” on its chest and felt that was going to be enough to win. Effort, performance, and precision did not rise to the standard Gottlieb expects from her team. She acknowledged the need to provide her players with a better plan and to create better shots at the offensive end of the floor.
It’s a great and very informative show. Give it a listen when you have time.
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