Last spring, as Andy Enfield took stock of where USC stood at the painfully sudden end of its season, the Trojans’ coach couldn’t help but feel a bit concerned.
The two winningest players in program history were graduating. Onyeka Okongwu was off to the NBA. Two graduate transfers had exhausted their eligibility. And two more unexpectedly announced their intent to transfer. That left Enfield with just three returners to go with top recruit Evan Mobley.
“We didn’t even have enough players to play a college basketball game,” Enfield says now, with a laugh.