The first half of this West Coast road trip didn’t exactly go the way we wanted, but it definitely held higher promise than recent games have.
With an injured Wendell Green, Auburn fell at USC 74-71 in Los Angeles on Sunday evening, dropping the Tigers to 9-2 overall. However, even with the loss, things looked better than they have over the past couple of contests. Auburn went 8-23 from three, shot 47% overall, and outrebounded USC 30-19, but the Trojans got a monumental effort from Boogie Ellis with 28 points. Meanwhile, the Tigers got 16 from Johni Broome and 12 from Tre Donaldson in a big breakout game for the freshman, but had 22 turnovers and spent most of the second half watching the Trojans shoot foul shots after they got into the double bonus extremely quickly.