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Whicker: Julian Jacobs, USC go from misery to NCAA Tournament

RALEIGH, N.C. >> Julian Jacobs heard the buzzer and heaved the basketball high into the ozone of Orleans Arena.

What he would do, when it came down, was anyone’s guess.

The point guard at Las Vegas’ Desert Pines High School had decided on USC long before he won the Nevada I-A state championship with an assist to Trevion Turner and then made a steal of the final in-bounds pass.

It was 2013, and by then the Trojans had fired coach Kevin O’Neill. Bob Cantu, the assistant, was finishing up, but the Trojans were already performing a “national search.