Adversity hit the Trojans' men's basketball program before the season started, and it only got more challenging from there.
In October, Trojans' head coach Darrell Walker discovered that starting point guard KK Robinson, the Ohio Valley Conference Preseason Player of the Year, was going to miss the entire 2024-25 season with a knee injury.
"If you take the best player of most teams in our league, they aren't going to be .500," Walker said. "KK is great, and it really hurt us to lose him. We were able to have some guys step up and help us win, but that was a tough, tough blow.