LA Daily News · Mar 21, 2017
USC basketball forged new identity in 2017
USC coach Andy Enfield helped his team to the second round of the NCAA tournament. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)A historic season for USC’s men’s basketball team reached its apex last week.
The Trojans pulled off another dramatic comeback, upending SMU after a game-winning 3-pointer by Elijah Stewart in the final minute to advance to the NCAA Tournament’s round of 32. Two days earlier, they had rallied from 17 points to top Providence in a tournament play-in game.
Amid a celebratory locker room at the BOK Center in Tulsa, Okla., someone had written, “26,” on a whiteboard.
It was for a program-record 26th victory.