USC

The following four candidates are the frontrunners for PAC-10 Player of the Year.

 

Arron Afflalo (6’5 Junior Guard, UCLA Bruins, 17.4 ppg, 2.3 rpg, 2.1 apg)

Oklahoma State at Texas, Southern Illinois at Missouri State, Indiana at Purdue, and USC at Arizona

Arron Afflalo (UCLA, 17 ppg)

Aaron Brooks (Oregon, 19 ppg, 4 apg)

Darren Collison (UCLA, 13 ppg, 6 apg)

Lawrence Hill (Stanford, 17 ppg, 6 rpg)

Mustafa Shakur (Arizona, 14 ppg, 7 rpg)

Nick Young (USC, 17 ppg, 5 rpg)

Other (Gibson USC, Low WSU, Weaver WSU, Williams AZ, etc)

What a fun night of games.. thank goodness conference play is in full swing. I dont even know where too begin, too many good games to discuss.

Big day for USC, escaping with a 84-82 over previously unbeaten Oregon. A lot of weird stuff going on at the end of this game. Ernie Kent calling a horrific timeout right as his team was about to score the game-tying lay up. Then ESPN, who was covering the end of the game instead of Memphis-Cincy, cuts back to the studio and misses the ensuing basket. Is there really a need to cut back to the three shmos in the studio when the two local announcers were doing a fine job. Then you have a bad charging call called on Maarty Leunen driving to the hoop, followed by bad clockwork which favored the home Ducks. Finally, a horrible foul in the final second by USC against Aaron Brooks shooting a desperation three, but Brooks misses his 2nd of three free-throws which could have tied it. Despite the miss, can't blame the loss on Brooks, who had 27 points and a huge-NBA range three in the final minutes. For USC, its now 3 wins in the last two weeks over ranked teams (Oregon, Washington, Wichita State) and a 12-4 record. For Oregon, it was the type of close loss that plagued them all last year..

Despite the tragic loss of PG Ryan Francis, the Trojans still return one of the best backcourts in the country.