USC Trojans NCAA Tournament Chances

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00:00Actually, this game seemed like an anomaly, you guys, turnovers, pain points,

00:04second chance, fast break, you guys came up short on all ends.

00:08Did it feel like an anomaly on the sideline?

00:11Not really. I mean, we were leading the whole game.

00:13I mean, you know, if if

00:18if someone would have told me,

00:20you know, last night when my wife and I were having nice dinner

00:25in Manhattan Beach, that we'd lead for 38 minutes and 44 seconds,

00:29I would probably take that any day.

00:31But they're a really good team. They're really confident.

00:33They have a lot of returning players.

00:35I mean, look up and down that roster, how many guys are returning.

00:38Then they got a great freshman in Richardson.

00:42This is a huge win.

00:43I mean, I don't know how else to say it because they're a veteran team.

00:46They've been in the Big Ten a long time.

00:49They're so well coached.

00:50So this is this a huge game for us.

00:52And, you know, the stats, I mean, we started milking the shot clock

00:57late in the game and,

01:00you know, maybe that had a little to do with some of this,

01:03you know, stats being the way they were.

01:05But there are really the way they push the ball.

01:07But paint points are even points off turnovers.

01:11We we won that battle.

01:12Second chance points were only minus four, which for them

01:16and the size difference in it, we'll take that.

01:18It was really the fast break points in the bench points where I thought,

01:21you know, they had a large margin on us.

01:24Coach, what made your defense so funky and why was Michigan State

01:27the right team to deploy that against?

01:30Yeah, I mean, we have a paintball slash goalie rules.

01:34And, you know, we didn't come out of the lane against Carr.

01:39And same thing with with with ten to start the game.