USC Triple-Double: Women of Troy season ends in Elite 8, men competing in CBC

Peristyle Podcast - USC Trojan Football Discussion

Ryan Abraham - USCFootball,com publisher

Sports, Basketball, Football

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

The USC Triple-Double Podcast -- the Peristyle Podcast's basketball-focused podcast -- returns with co-hosts Shotgun Spratling and Connor Morrissette (aka Mr. Triple Double) breaking down the conclusion of the Women of Troy's remarkable 31-4 season as the Trojans advanced to the Elite 8 with a 67-61 win over Kansas State before falling in the Elite 8 to UConn for the second consecutive season. Shotgun and Connor talk about the outstanding performance of USC's freshman trio -- Avery Howell, Kennedy Smith and Kayleigh Heckel -- in the Sweet 16 victory over Kansas State as well as the dynamic effort of Rayah Marshall to keep the Women of Troy in the battle with Connecticut. They also discuss Kiki Iriafen's struggles and how UConn was able to pull away behind its superstar Paige Bueckers. The podcasting duo also take a look at the USC men's opening game in the College Basketball Crown tournament in Las Vegas where the Trojans trounced Tulane, 89-60, behind another electric outing from Rashaun Agee, who continues to show more and more confidence. They also discuss the McDonald's All-American efforts of Alijah Arenas for the men and Jazzy Davidson on the women's side. After a break, Shotgun and Connor look at where the Women of Troy program stands after two remarkable seasons as No. 1 seeds in the NCAA tournament, with both ending one game shy of the Trojans' first Final Four since 1986. They also debate what type of transfer portal options the USC women could target and what the roster could look like next season. They also do look ahead to the men's basketball team's College Basketball Crown tournament quarterfinals matchup against Villanova with at least $50,000 on the line in NIL money for the teams. Please review, rate and subscribe to the Peristyle Podcast on Apple Podcasts! Make sure you check out USCFootball.com for complete coverage of this USC Trojans basketball and football teams. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:41.6	Yeah.
0:50.6	Hello and welcome in to another episode of the USC Triple Double podcast.
0:58.7	I'm your host Shotgun Sparling along with my co-host, Connor Morissette, Mr. Triple Double himself. Connor, how are we doing today? Doing well. I still think it's interesting that the men are playing after the women now. What a weird season it's been for
1:03.5	both these teams. Let's get into all of it. I mean, for a while there was the men were playing
1:09.1	longer into seasons than the women, but not when
1:11.7	you had Juju Watkins on a team, not in when Lindsay Gottlieb is the head coach, especially
1:16.9	not with the turnover of the men's team and everything. So it is weird. It is definitely
1:22.1	weird. You and I have been texting back and forth that we're recording on Wednesday during
1:27.1	Tuesdays the crown
1:28.3	basketball the CB crown I don't even know how to like how do we abbreviate in that
1:32.6	CBC we call CBC tournament CBC championship I don't I don't know exactly the crown
1:37.7	maybe we just call it the crown but whatever it is is going on and it's weird there was a team
1:43.0	that was 14 and 19 that was playing in this.
1:45.2	So, yeah, it's definitely weird.
1:46.8	USC plays Tulane, the team that three of their top six scorers have already went into the transfer
1:51.2	portal or not with the team.
1:52.1	So it is, it's kind of like a weird spring football game or like in baseball where
1:58.8	you have a fall ball game against the team and then the
2:01.7	rosters are still going to change after so I don't know it's a strange endeavor but we're
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