Southern California can close out the 2024 portion of its schedule with a four-game winning streak on Sunday when the Trojans host Southern University in Los Angeles.USC (8-4) has rebounded from a three-game losing skid by winning its last three games, the most recent a 90-69 rout of Cal State Northridge on Wednesday. Chibuzo Agbo improved his season scoring average to 12.7 points per game with his 23 against the Matadors, and Desmond Claude complemented a career-high-matching nine assists with 21 points.Claude, a junior guard, is averaging a team-high 14.7 points along with 3.6 rebounds and 3.8 assists per game against 2.3 turnovers for the Trojans.”A player (who) people wondered if he could be a point guard, there’s not a lot of point guards who play a whole season and can have a nine-to-one assist-to-turnover ratio and score the ball at the rate that he hit,” Southern California coach Eric Musselman said of Claude.After struggling offensively in their three-game losing streak, in particular notching 36 and 60 points in losses to Saint Mary’s and then-No. 12 Oregon, the Trojans have registered at least 85 points in each of their last three games.Southern (5-6) faces Southern California for the second time in program history — the Trojans won a 2004 matchup 91-58 — in the Jaguars’ second game of a weekend swing through Los Angeles. Southern dropped an 89-73 decision at Loyola Marymount on Friday despite PJ Dobuol’s 19-point, 10-rebound performance off the bench.
