LAS VEGAS – For one, this was the beginning. For the other, an end.
At a fork in their respective basketball seasons, both USC and UCLA continued on the road less traveled – at least, by recent standards.
In the midst of a resurgent season under third-year Coach Andy Enfield, seventh-seeded USC sent No.10 seed UCLA home packing in Wednesday’s opening round of the Pac-12 Tournament, 95-71, capping a 3-0 season mark against its rival that the Trojans haven’t matched in a single-season in more than 60 years.
For UCLA, it marked the end of one of the more miserable seasons in recent memory.