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LOS ANGELES — The USC men’s hoops squad returned location to the Galen Center connected Monday nighttime and extended its triumph streak to 4 games aft beating Dixie State, 98-71.
Boogie Ellis led the 24th-ranked Trojans with 19 points, 5 rebounds and 3 assists, followed by Max Agbonkpolo with 17 points and six rebounds.
Isaiah Mobley had 14 points, six rebounds and 4 assists for USC, which changeable 53% (38 for 72) wide portion holding Dixie State to 32% (24 for 76). Chevez Goodwin pulled down 11 rebounds for the Trojans (4-0), who had a 52-38 vantage connected the boards.
Ellis assisted connected a brace of 3-pointers wrong the archetypal 3 minutes of the crippled – the archetypal by Ethan Anderson and the 2nd by Isaiah Mobley – arsenic the Trojans sprinted to a 13-2 lead.
Anderson threw down the archetypal dunk of the crippled minutes later, past Ellis followed with a dunk of his ain and a jumper to widen the Trojans’ pb to 19-5.
While USC applied unit successful the overgarment connected defence passim the archetypal half, its discourtesy was 20 for 34, including a 6-for-16 people from 3-point range.
Reese Dixon-Waters deed a 3-pointer to propulsion the people to 22-5, past aft 2 USC misses, deed different with little than 10 minutes near successful the half. USC led the Trailblazers, 47-36 by the break.
Goodwin rebounded a missed 3-point effort arsenic Dixie State (1-4) crept wrong 9 points a fewer times, but Ellis made back-to-back 3-pointers astir a infinitesimal isolated to physique a 59-46 vantage aboriginal successful the 2nd half. USC cruised the remainder of the mode and eased into scoring plays. An Anderson bargain led to an Ellis layup that enactment the Trojans up by 28 points with 7:52 left.
The triumph marks the archetypal of 3 games successful 5 days for USC. The Trojans adjacent look Saint Joseph’s successful the four-team Wooden Legacy tourney connected Thursday astatine the Anaheim Convention Center.
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