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Las Vegas Sun reporter Ryan Greene gives his three keys to UNLV beating USC in the Diamond Head Classic championship game.

The USC men's basketball team finally reached full strength yesterday, and the Trojans showed few weaknesses against Saint Mary's. Mike Gerrity, in his third game of the season, scored 17 points and Nikola Vucevic had 15 points and seven rebounds as USC beat Saint Mary's, 60-49, in the semifinals of the Hawaiian Airlines Diamond Head Classic at ...

USC Basketball: Trojans top St. Mary's, 60-49, advance to finals of tourney December 23, 2009 4:53 pm St.

USC coach Kevin O'Neill was probably the only one in the country who had redshirt senior point guard Mike Gerrity as the most significant mid-December addition to a team.

As the final seconds ticked off the clock, Dwight Lewis hip-bumped Alex Stepheson, then Nikola Vucevic.

USC's basketball team received an early Christmas present, just in time for today's game against No.

USC senior point guard Mike Gerrity will be available to face No. 9 Tennessee on Saturday after the NCAA granted him a "progress towards degree" waiver.

USC Coach Kevin O'Neill said he'd gladly take his Trojans' 59-53 win over Idaho State Friday, even if it took a school-record 13 blocked shots to get it.

Leonard Washington is not with the USC basketball team on its first trip of the season -- and for the young and inexperienced Trojans, who were soundly defeated, 69-50, Thursday by No.

Kevin O'Neill was content with his debut but wouldn't stand for his team's imperfections.

Lewis, fighting off leg cramps in the second half, posted a game-high 22 points but it was the play of his teammates, guard Marcus Simmons in particular, that allowed a Trojans squad playing with just seven scholarship players to start off O'Neill on a winning note.

When USC basketball coach Kevin O'Neill was hired in June, he inherited a program beset by player departures.

The conference's biggest challenge might belong to Kevin O'Neill, the one-time Arizona coach , who takes over a USC program that could be hit hard by possible NCAA sanctions.

Just concluded the second half of coaches interviews and now we're off for player interviews.

Pac-10 basketball media day is about to begin. I'll publish the preseason media poll here as soon as possible, as well as any other newsworthy comments from USC coach Kevin O'Neill , senior Dwight Lewis and others.

Hoops season is just around the corner, and when it comes to USC, it seems like the only news is of the bad variety.

Power forward Leonard Washington is academically ineligible for the first semester, USC basketball Coach Kevin O'Neill confirmed, robbing the Trojans of another player from last season's NCAA tournament team.

They fully expected him to fight the allegations that he paid $1,000 to O.J. Mayo's handler, Rodney Guillory.

For Evan Smith, 18, a recently graduated 6-foot-6 swingman from Calabasas High, it didn't matter that USC's basketball program appeared to be in shambles.

One storm cloud after another has burst on top of the USC men's basketball program the past two months, the biggest of them all, the potential loss of scholarships and probation, still hanging over it.