The lowdown: With brothers Clay and Tyson Helton, Pat Haden, Max Nikias and Nelson Agholor in attendance, USC opened conference play at the Galen Center with an energetic performance which required more nail-biting than initially thought.
Bennie Boatwright started off the scoring with the first of three consecutive three-pointers by USC claim the lead they would maintain throughout.
As ASU went more than seven minutes without scoring, the Trojans built a double-digit lead with the help of Julian Jacobs, who was playing despite the injured ankle which kept him out of the second half of the weekend’s loss to Washington.