No. 24 USC stifles San Diego State in Wooden Legacy championship

ANAHEIM — In a crippled afloat of scoring droughts and carnal defense, it was No. 24 USC that came up with capable discourtesy to decision San Diego State, 58-43, connected Friday nighttime successful the Wooden Legacy title crippled astatine the Anaheim Convention Center.

The 24th-ranked Trojans (6-0) held the Aztecs to 18-for-56 shooting and didn’t let SDSU starring scorer Matt Bradley to people until determination were 80 seconds near successful the game. Isaiah Mobley scored 18 and Drew Peterson added 16 to extremity San Diego State’s three-game winning streak against ranked teams.

With the Aztec fans making it consciousness similar a location crippled for San Diego State (4-2), the Trojans struggled early. They started 1 for 9 from the tract with 2 turnovers arsenic SDSU’s physicality forced USC into playing an disfigured benignant of basketball.

But the Trojan defence was up for the situation and ne'er fto San Diego State get up by much than six points. USC went connected a 7-0 run, capped by a Mobley 3-pointer, to instrumentality its archetypal pb of the game.

From there, the USC defence controlled the remainder of the half. SDSU missed 15 of its past 16 shots from the tract earlier halftime and didn’t deed a tract extremity successful the last 10:54 of the first.

Chevez Goodwin came successful for the last infinitesimal to deed a left-handed hook changeable and second-chance layup conscionable earlier the buzzer to headdress an 8-0 USC tally and springiness the Trojans a 22-15 pb astatine halftime contempt a 10-for-30 people from the floor.

As USC continued to asseverate its power to commencement the 2nd half, the vigor of the assemblage began to displacement successful the Trojans’ favor. USC scored connected its archetypal 3 possessions. After Ethan Anderson lobbed an inbounds walk from the baseline to Peterson for a layup and Goodwin blocked a layup connected the other end, USC fans were the lone ones who could beryllium heard.

USC wasn’t large offensively, shooting 4 for 14 from 3-point scope and an disfigured 33.3% from the free-throw enactment (6 for 18). As the discourtesy stalled successful the 2nd half, San Diego State got backmost wrong 8 successful the last minutes.

But the Trojans got blistery precocious to extremity the threat. By the clip a Peterson bargain led to an Anderson modulation layup, the “S-C” chant successful the stands filled the arena arsenic the Trojans wrapped up the lead.

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