Los Angeles Times - 09.11.2019

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USC 76, PORTLAND 65

PORTLAND

Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T

Diabate.............17 2-8 2-2 2-2 1 3 6

Tryon ................30 1-7 0-0 3-7 1 0 3

Porter ...............24 2-4 0-0 0-1 1 0 5

Walker ..............28 4-9 0-2 0-1 3 1 10

White...............307-15 2-2 1-4 0 3 22

Adams..............31 3-7 0-0 2-5 4 1 6

Fahrensohn .......26 3-5 2-2 0-6 0 2 10

Ferebee..............9 0-0 0-0 0-0 2 2 0

Harewood............5 1-1 0-1 0-0 0 0 3

Totals 23-56 6-9 8-26 12 12 65

Shooting: Field goals, 41.1%; free throws, 66.7%

Three-point goals: 13-28 (White 6-10, Fahrensohn 2-4,

Walker 2-6, Harewood 1-1, Porter 1-3, Tryon 1-3, Adams 0-1).

Team Rebounds: 0. Team Turnovers: 16 (13 PTS). Blocked Shots:

3 (Tryon 2, Fahrensohn). Turnovers: 16 (Tryon 4, Ferebee 3,

Adams 2, Diabate 2, Fahrensohn 2, Porter 2, Harewood). Steals:

11 (Adams 3, White 3, Fahrensohn 2, Porter 2). Technical Fouls:

None.

USC

Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T

Mobley.............22 2-3 1-1 1-7 1 1 5

Okongwu...........2110-13 0-0 5-10 0 3 20

Rakocevic..........24 5-8 1-1 3-8 2 0 11

Mathews...........314-15 0-0 1-3 3 2 12

Weaver..............26 4-7 1-2 0-0 4 3 12

Utomi...............24 1-4 1-2 3-4 0 0 3

Adlesh ..............22 3-4 0-0 1-4 0 1 9

E.Anderson........21 1-6 2-4 2-4 10 2 4

Agbonkpolo.........4 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 1 0

O’Bannon............4 0-0 0-0 0-0 1 0 0

Sturdivant...........1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0

Totals 30-61 6-10 16-40 21 13 76

Shooting: Field goals, 49.2%; free throws, 60.0%

Three-point goals: 10-20 (Mathews 4-9, Adlesh 3-3, Weaver

3-4, Agbonkpolo 0-1, Rakocevic 0-1, Utomi 0-2). Team Re-

bounds: 3. Team Turnovers: 20 (18 PTS). Blocked Shots: 2

(Okongwu, Rakocevic). Turnovers: 20 (Okongwu 4, Mathews 3,

Rakocevic 3, Adlesh 2, E.Anderson 2, Mobley 2, Weaver 2, Ag-

bonkpolo, Sturdivant). Steals: 8 (Rakocevic 3, Okongwu 2,

Adlesh, Mobley, Weaver). Technical Fouls: None.

Portland 35 30— 65

USC 41 35— 76

A—Unavailable.

shooting from long range

Friday. Coach Andy Enfield

knew that with Mathews,

who came off the bench in

the opener because he was

late to classes, and graduate

transfers Quinton Adlesh

and Daniel Utomi, this team

could be one of the more

dangerous shooting teams

in the Pac-12. It was only a

matter of time before it

showed.

“We have great shooters

on our team: Quinton, Dan-

iel, everybody can shoot on

our team,” Mathews said.

“It’s all going to come within

rhythm. It’s going to come.”

Adlesh’s 180 made three-

pointers at Columbia rank

fourth on the school’s all-

time list. Yet he was 0 for 3

from beyond the arc in his

USC debut. He made up for

it Friday by hitting all three

of his first-half three-point

shots as he finished with

nine points while contrib-

uting key defensive stops in

the second half.

“Q’s a really good player,

period,” Enfield said. “He’s

an excellent position de-

fender and an elite shooter.”

Sophomore Elijah

Weaver had 12 points on

three-for-four shooting from

three-point range, while

freshman Ethan Anderson

had 10 assists and just two

turnovers.

“He had a really con-

trolled game,” Enfield said of

Anderson. “He’s developing

as a player, he has great

court vision and he’s a tough

kid. I thought he gave us a

big jump off the bench.”

After becoming the first

USC freshman since Taj

Gibson in 2006 to debut with

a double-double, Okongwu

was limited by foul trouble

Friday. He played just seven

minutes in the first half with

two fouls, earning six points

and two rebounds.

The Pilots (1-1) tied the

score with 15:08 to go on a

scoop layup from Malcolm

Porter after Okongwu went

to the bench in the second

half with his third foul. The

freshman returned with the

Trojans nursing a two-point

lead, and scored 14 of his

points in the second half

with eight rebounds.

“In our system, he plays a

very important position for

us and he does it very well,”

Enfield said.

“So we just need him to

keep playing within the sys-

tem and using his talents to

go get that ball when it’s on

the backboard.”

When Okongwu left the

court a final time with 31.7

seconds remaining and an 11-

point lead, what was left

from the crowd of 2,720 gave

him a standing ovation as

the Trojans marched toward

their second victory.

Okongwu

stars again

for USC

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MEN

SOUTHLAND
USC 76, Portland 65
Cal Baptist 112, Cal Lutheran 56
Texas Dallas 74, Redlands 71
Linfield, Ore.103, Whittier 98
Whitworth 93, Claremont-Mudd 83
Cal St. Stanislaus 87, Notre Dame de Namur 77
Concordia 90, Cal St. L.A. 76
Point Loma Nazarene 102, Humboldt St. 91
Azusa Pacific 66, Cal Poly Pomona 62
Cal St. San Marcos 86, Biola 75

WEST
Illinois 83, Grand Canyon 71
Sacramento St. 76, Simpson 27
South Dakota 72, Pacific 62
Washington 67, Baylor 64
Santa Clara 77, Cal Poly 63
Colorado 81, Arizona St. 71
San Francisco St. 78, Academy of Art 63
Fresno Pacific 77, Montana St. Billings 73
Sonoma St. 87, Dominican 82
Holy Names at Cal St. East Bay

EAST
Delaware 56, Oakland 53
Army 80, Merchant Marine 43
Connecticut 89, Sacred Heart 67
Dartmouth 68, Buffalo 63
William & Mary 79, American U. 70
Towson 100, Bryn Athyn 31
West Virginia 94, Akron 84
Yale 94, Oberlin 37
Vermont 61, St. Bonaventure 59
Mass. Lowell 87, LIU Brooklyn 74
Rider 81, Delaware St. 54
Drexel 72, Niagara 64
Northeastern 84, Harvard 79
Navy 62, East Carolina 57

SOUTH
Auburn 76, Davidson 66
Campbell 101, Central Penn 47
Coastal Carolina 102, Hampden-Sydney 66
Duke 89, Colorado St. 55
Elon 95, Milligan 54
Furman 87, Loyola of Chicago 63
George Mason 76, Longwood 65
Jacksonville 83, Johnson (Fla.) 65
Kentucky 91, E. Kentucky 49
Liberty 66, Radford 60
Marist 58, VMI 56
Memphis 92, UIC 46
Mercer 84, Columbia International 76
Miami 74, Florida Atlantic 60

Mississippi 71, Arkansas St. 43

Mississippi St. 67, Sam Houston St. 58

N.C. A&T 63, Charleston Southern 49

Norfolk St. 93, Penn St.-Wilkes-Barre 53

North Carolina 78, UNC Wilmington 62

Richmond 100, St. Francis (Pa.) 98, OT

S.C. State 79, Bob Jones 64

S.C. Upstate 103, Truett McConnell 62

VCU 59, North Texas 56

Virginia Tech 74, Coppin St. 42

Furman 87, Loyola of Chicago 63

LSU 88, Bowling Green 79

Grambling St. 147, Ecclesia 52

Georgia Southern 109, Reinhardt 55

Florida International 101, Ave Maria 59

MIDWEST

E. Michigan 93, Siena Heights 51

Missouri 71, N. Kentucky 56

S. Illinois 72, UTSA 60

Xavier 81, Siena 63

Wisconsin 65, E. Illinois 52

DePaul 70, Fairleigh Dickinson 59

Merrimack 71, Northwestern 61

Iowa 87, SIU-Edwardsville 60

Kansas 74, UNC Greensboro 62

SOUTHWEST

Lamar 106, Arlington Baptist 61

Oral Roberts 95, Houston Baptist 81

ROCKIES

Utah 143, Mississippi Valley St. 49

Utah St. 89, Weber St. 34

N. Colorado 83, Incarnate Word 61

WOMEN

AP TOP 25

No. 2 Baylor 120, Grambling St. 46

No. 9 Louisville 76, Murray St. 40

South Florida 64 , No. 15 Texas 57

No. 16 Notre Dame 84, Loyola (Md.) 60

No. 17 Michigan State 110, Detroit 52

No. 18 DePaul 98, Miami (Ohio) 79

No. 22 Arkansas 82, New Orleans 52

No. 25 Michigan 76, W. Michigan 55

SOUTHLAND

St. Mary’s 64, UC Santa Barbara 43

Washington 80, Cal St. Bakersfield 49

St. Catherine 58, Chapman 42

Redlands 63, Southwestern (Texas) 49

Park Gilbert (Ariz.) 107, La Verne 105, 2OT

Azusa Pacific 75, Cal St. San Bernardino 47

Cal Poly Pomona 81, Point Loma Nazarene 71

Biola 72, Cal St. L.A. 67

Concordia 83, Cal St. Dominguez Hills 75

RESULTS

James Wiseman had an-
other dominant game for the
No. 14 Memphis Tigers. All
anyone wanted to talk about
was Wiseman’s status with
the NCAA.
Wiseman had 17 points
and nine rebounds hours af-
ter getting a temporary re-
straining order to play amid
an NCAA ineligibility ruling,
leading Memphis past visit-
ing Illinois Chicago 92-46 on
Friday night.
Memphis coach Penny
Hardaway started his
postgame news conference
saying he knew everyone
wanted to ask about the
status of freshman center
Wiseman, who was intro-
duced with the starting line-
up about an hour after the
restraining order was
signed.
“I have to be silent on that
because it’s an ongoing proc-
ess,” Hardaway said. “I wish
I could talk about it. But we
just have to stay silent about
it until we move forward.
Anybody asks me questions,
I’ll just have to move past it
and say I can’t talk about it
right now.”
Wiseman was not made
available after the game. He
later posted on Instagram:
“All Smiles!!! God got me!!”

Memphis said the poten-

tial No. 1 pick in the 2020

NBA draft was declared eli-

gible by the NCAA in May.

Further details and investi-

gation by the university and

the NCAA found Hardaway

gave $11,500 in moving ex-

penses to help Wiseman’s

family move from Nashville

to Memphis in the summer

of 2017. The university said

Wiseman didn’t know about

the money given to his fam-

ily.

At the time, Hardaway

was the coach of East High

in Memphis. Wiseman was a

junior who helped Hard-

away win his third straight

Tennessee Class AAA title

before being hired by Mem-

phis in March 2018. Wiseman

committed to Memphis —

and Hardaway again — in

November 2018.

Several hours of drama

prior to tipoff made up for

the lack of answers

postgame.

Less than two hours be-

fore the game, Wiseman’s at-

torney Leslie Ballin an-

nounced that the NCAA had

ruled the freshman ineligi-

ble. A local court issued the

ruling allowing Wiseman to

play a short time later.

Wiseman started, and

Memphis (2-0) immediately

took a double-digit lead

leaving the only doubt of the

night the status of the 7-

foot-1 freshman.

The NCAA declined to

comment after Ballin an-

nounced that Wiseman had

been ruled ineligible at a late

afternoon news conference

in Memphis. But the NCAA

tweeted out a statement Fri-

day night with Wiseman

playing.

“The University of Mem-

phis was notified that James

Wiseman is likely ineligible,”

the NCAA wrote on Twitter.

“The university chose to

play him and ultimately is

responsible for ensuring its

student-athletes are eligible

to play.”

at No. 2 Kentucky 91,

Eastern Kentucky 49: Nick

Richards had 21 points and

10 rebounds, Immanuel

Quickley added 16 and the

Wildcats (2-0) scored the

game’s first 14 points and ne-

ver looked back.

at No. 3 Kansas 74, UNC

Greensboro 62: The Jay-

hawks bounced back from

an opening loss to Duke and

shot 41.7% from beyond the

arc in the second half to pull

away after leading by only

four at the break.

at No. 4 Duke 89, Col-

orado State 55: Wearing

gray uniforms trimmed in

gold to honor Hall of Fame

coach Mike Krzyzewski —

who led the U.S. national

team to three consecutive

Olympic gold medals from

2008-16 — the Blue Devils

(2-0) pulled away by closing

the first half on a 10-0 run.

No. 9 North Carolina 68,

at UNC Wilmington 62:

Freshman Cole Anthony

made only seven of 24 shots,

but he had had 20 points and

10 rebounds for the Tar

Heels (2-0), who got 18

points and 12 rebounds from

graduate transfer Justin

Pierce.

Washington 67, No. 16

Baylor 64:Isaiah Stewart

made a layup with 29.3 sec-

onds to play to give the

Huskies the lead as they

overcame a 13-point second-

half deficit in the Armed

Forces Classic in Anchorage,

Alaska.

at No. 17 Utah State 89,

Weber State 34: The Wild-

cats went more than 11 min-

utes without a basket as the

Aggies went on a 20-2 run

and pulled away. Justin

Bean had 18 points and nine

rebounds, and Sam Merrill

added 14 points, six re-

bounds, and six assists for

Utah State. Weber State

guard Jerrick Harding, the

team’s leading scorer a sea-

son ago, sat out with a foot

injury and the Wildcats shot

21.7% from the field.

Utah 143, Mississippi

Valley State 49: The Utes set

a school record for points in

a game as Rylan Jones and

Both Gach recorded triple-

doubles.

Top 25 scores

No. 2 Kentucky 91

Eastern Kentucky 49

No. 3 Kansas 74

UNC Greensboro 62

No. 4 Duke 89

Colorado State 55

No. 9 North Carolina 78

UNC Wilmington 62

Washington 67

No. 16 Baylor 64

No. 17 Utah State 89

Weber State 34

No. 19 Xavier 81

Siena 63

No. 22 Louisiana State 88

Bowling Green 79

No. 24 Auburn 76

Davidson 66

No. 25 VCU 59

North Texas 56

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

BALL ’HAWK

Jamie SquireGetty Images

Kansas’ Udoka Azubuike, right, knocks the ball away from UNC Greens-

boro’s Kyrin Galloway during the Jayhawks’ 74-62 victory in Lawrence, Kan.

Azubuike had 10 points and 10 rebounds for third-ranked Kansas.

MEMPHISfreshman James Wiseman (32), guarding Illinois Chicago’s Godwin Boahen, needed a restraining order to play for the Tigers.

Karen Pulfer FochtAssociated Press

ROUNDUP

Drama off the court for Memphis

associated press

MEN

at Cal Baptist 112, Cal Lu-

theran 56:Junior guard Mi-

lan Acquaah had 27 points

and seven assists, and Omar

Lo scored 15 points off the

bench, making all seven of

his shots, as the Lancers

cruised. Cal Baptist shot

60% from the field and held

the Kingsmen to 32.1%.

TODAY

MEN

Idaho at UC Riverside ............................................................. 2 p.m.

San Diego at Long Beach State ...................................... 3:30 p.m.

UC Irvine at Pepperdine ......................................................... 5 p.m.

Cal State Northridge at New Mexico .................................. 6 p.m.

Loyola Marymount at Nevada .............................................. 7 p.m.

Cal State Fullerton at Stanford ........................................... 8 p.m.

WOMEN

Loyola Marymount at No. 11 UCLA...................................... 2 p.m.

Virginia at USC .......................................................................... 2 p.m.

SOUTHLAND

USC next

Tuesday vs. South Dakota

State, 7 p.m., Galen

Center, Pac-12 Networks

— After winning either a

Summit League regular

season or tournament title

in seven of the last eight

years, the Jackrabbits lost

three starters to

graduation and another to

transfer. SDSU starts over

with first-time head coach

Eric Henderson, who was

promoted after former

coach T.J. Otzelberger

took over at Nevada Las

Vegas this summer.

— Thuc Nhi Nguyen