Last year’s USC Trojan squad was struck with hoards of injury troubles and ended up with a 6-26 overall record, but if you believe they don’t feel that they can compete for the Pac-12 title this year you couldn’t be more far off. In fact, USC guard Jio Fontan, who transferred from Fordham and averaged 10.5 points and 3.9 assists for USC’s NCAA tournament team in 2011, believes the squad could finish in the top four or five, and that’s got plenty of Trojan fans around the country excited for fall hoops action. Purchase your 2012 USC Trojan basketball tickets today and watch this persevering squad battle back in the Pac-12.
This year’s squad will look vastly different than last year, when four projected starters dropped with season-ending injuries. This time two transfers from Wake Forest, J.T. Terrell and Ari Stewart, Renaldo Wooldridge from UC-Irvine, and Eric Wise from Tennessee will join the likes of Fontan, Maurice Jones, Dewayne Dedmon, Byron Wesley and Aaron Fuller. The recharged and reloaded Trojans are confident that they can make amends for last year and get back to winning territory.