The basketball of the USC men goes to Evanston to face wildcats

Men’s basketball | 03. February 2025

Evanston, Ill. – The USC men’s basketball (13-8, 5-5 big ten) will return to the middle west of two games this week. The Trojans will start with the Northwestern Wildcats, which are 3: 8 in the year 12-10 and in Big Ten Play. These two teams have not played each other since December 27, 2000 when the Trojans in Evanston lost two.

Last time

The Trojans took over the hottest team in the Big Ten conference in the state of No. 7 in Michigan. USC took control of the game early Desmond Claude Gripped for the first four points of the game. From there, the Trojans set up in their lead and went up to 15 in the first half. This hard team of Michigan State would not go down without fighting. The Spartans came within two of the Trojans before the USC could move away again. This led USC to take out the 70-64 victory against Spartans No. 7.

Claude led all Trojans in the goal when he scored 19 points to reach six rebounds, three assists and one block. Two other Trojans earned double -digit points, and that was them Wesley Yates III And Chibuzo Agbo. Yates ended the day with 15 points to shoot five rebounds and 100 percent beyond the arch, while Agbo scored 14 points, five rebounds and theft.

Scouting The Wildcats

• Northwestern is currently 12-10 a year and is 3: 8 in Big Ten Play. The wildcats are at home 10-3 this season, although they currently have a defeat with three games.
• The wildcats are an aggressive, passport -loading team. Despite the leadership of the big ten in Turnovers per game (9.8), Northwestern takes fourth place in the big ten in the Assist turnover ratio (1.51), in the edge of sales (4.0) and steals per game (7, 8). Under coach Chris Collins, Northwestern forced 13.8 sales per game and won 10.9 offensive rebounds per game, which is in the top Six in the big ten in every respective category.
• The junior striker Nick Martinelli leads the big ten in minutes per game (37.5) and Total Field Goal tests (329). Martinelli also occupies second place of all Big Ten players in the entire field gates (157) and a total of (426) this season. The Illinois native is an average of 19.4 points per game, which is the third highest brand of every big ten player.
• The Senior Guard Brooks Barnhizer is crucial for the team’s efforts because he takes second place in the minutes per game (36.9) in the big ten and leads all conference players with nine double double this season. The Indiana born in the big ten in Assists per game (4.2), points per game (17.1), defensive rebound per game (7.3), rebounds per game (8.8), totally steal ( 39) and steals per place (2.29).
• The graduate guard Jalen Leach has led the northwest offensive. Leach is an average of 14.7 points and 3.3 assists per game with a ratio of 1.85 assist turno, which is in the top 20 in the big ten. The graduate monitor Ty Berry has proven to be a threat to the wildcats at both ends of the soil, since it produces over two three-point pointers per game and is an average of 1.5 steals per game, which in the big ten in the top 10 brings. The Graduate Center Matthew Nicholson achieves an average of 1.2 blocks per game – the ninth highest brand of every big ten player.

The real age
Rashaun Agee Has been included in the last five games when he took his first start as a Trojan against No. 7 Michigan State. He was the first Trojan to score double -digit rebounds in a game this season when he hit 10 against Iowa. He also achieved a high season high of 21 points against UCLA. It is still a capital for the Trojans because he shoots out of the field with a 62.5 percent clip and achieves an average of 12.8 points and 5.6 rebounds per game. These figures rise sharply from his numbers to the rest of the season, since he only achieves an average of 6.9 points and 3.4 rebounds per game.

A two punch
Desmond Claude And Wesley Yates III are one of the best duos on the square for USC. In the 759 possessions that had these two players together, they have a plus minus of 114 and an offensive rating of 118.2. You also have one of the highest field -goal percentages of all duo in the team and make about 49.1 percent of your shots.

The duo of Saint Thomas And Rashaun Agee is also a dominant pairing. They have an even higher effective field of targets, which is 58 percent with 491 possessions. You also have a percentage of 118.4 and 50.5 field goals.

ABODE

The tip for this game in the Welsh Ryan Arena will take place on Tuesday, February 4, at 6 p.m. PT. Fans can watch this game in the Big Ten network or listen to the USC Game Day app.