Zemek: One way to explain why USC football and men's hoops are failing

March 28, 2026

By Matt Zemek, Trojans Wire via Yahoo Sports: USC football and men’s basketball have clearly fallen short in recent years. Lincoln Riley and Eric Musselman have not done the jobs they were paid to do. We can sit here and note how unlucky Musselman was with injuries this past season, and that’s entirely true, but it remains that USC still did blow leads in games it should have won. The Trojans cratered down the stretch and threw away their shot at the NCAA Tournament.

Lincoln Riley was crushed by the Eric Gentry injury in 2024 and the Prophet Brown injury in 2025, but still: Five seasons without a playoff berth is not what he came to USC to do. One article by College Sports Wire deals with one small but interesting part of Riley and Musselman.

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One way to explain why USC football and men's hoops are failing

Lincoln Riley is still hated, but not with the intensity of 2022. Eric Musselman has faded into obscurity. USC's coaches aren't feared anymore

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