As the game dwindled down in its final minutes, USC’s Chibuzo Agbo held the ball in the post under the basket with a player defending him. He was seemingly out of options until he found Matt Knowling cutting to the basket and fed him a bounce pass. Knowling slammed home the exclamation point basket during the Trojans’ 82-68 victory over the San José State Spartans at the Galen Center on Wednesday night.
USC needed a balanced effort to bounce back from its first loss of the season on Sunday against Cal.
San Jose State (1-5) hung around for most of the first half, capitalizing on a slow start by the Trojans (4-1).