By the time Eric Musselman had a moment to take stock of his new roster this spring, there wasn’t much team left for the new USC coach to evaluate. Three players departed for the draft. Six more hit the transfer portal.
By mid-April, Harrison Hornery, the Aussie stretch-four, was the only scholarship player left for the new coach to inherit. Hornery averaged 3.3 points per game as a junior.
Mass exodus isn’t out of the ordinary in this uncertain era of the transfer portal. But the barren state of USC’s roster would make for a particularly daunting start for Musselman and his staff, who essentially had a month to piece together an entirely new team with transfers who entered the portal.