Preview USC

Pac 12 Preview:  Southern Cal

Last Season: 12-16 overall and 5-12 in Pac 12 play.  

 

The Coaches:  

Lindsay Gottlieb is in her 2^nd , after two years in the NBA and 8 years as the Head Coach at Cal where she won 67% of her games.

Beth Burns is in her first year at USC after coaching at Louisville.   Beth was once at Stanford.  Beth is the Associate Head Coach.

Wendale Farrow is in his 2nd year after 5 years at Cal, three with Gottlieb.

Nneka Enemkpali is in her 2nd year after one season at UNLV and 2 at UCSB.   She averaged 10 points per game over her 4 years at Texas.  

 

Losses:

Alissa Pili averaged 8 points and 4 rebounds in an injury plagued season.  Pili transferred to Utah

Angel Jackson averaged 4 points and 3 rebounds.  Jackson transferred to Jackson State

Jordyn Jenkins averaged 15 points and 7 rebounds.  Jenkins transferred to Texas-San Antonio.

Jordan Sanders averaged 12 points and 4 rebounds and graduated.

Desiree Caldwell averaged 4 points and 3 assists and graduated..

Amaya Oliver, only played 39 minutes and transferred to LMU.

Kyra White averaged one point and transferred to Texas San Antonio.

Tera Reed averaged 6 points and 4 rebounds and graduated.  

That’s a loss of 50 points per games.    

 

Additions:

Aaliyah Gayles, 5-9 Point Guard, NV who Ranked # 8   Badly injured so I’m sure will redshirt 

Taylor Rigby 6-1 Soph Guard transferred from Oregon after averaging 2 points however highly recruited out of HS.

Rokia Doumbia is a 5-9 Guard Grad Transfer from Purdue where she averaged 4 points and 4 rebounds.

Destiny Littleton 5-9 Sr Guard who transferred from South Carolina where she averaged 2.6 ppg.  A McD All American in HS.

Koi Love 6-0 Jr Forward who transferred from Arizona where she averaged 5 points and 4 rebounds.

Okako Adika 6-0 Sr Wing who transferred from TCU where she averaged 10 points and 5 rebounds.

Kadi Sissoko 6-2 Grad Transfer Wing from Minnesota where she averaged 11 points and 6 rebounds in the last two seasons.

Kayla Williams 5-7 Redshirt Soph Guard who transferred from UC Irvine where she averaged 15 points and 4 assists and made 68 threes.

 

The Returning Team:

Alyson Miura is a 5-9 Sr Guard who averaged 6 points and made 38 threes at 39%. 

Madison Campbell is a 5-11  Redshirt Jr Guard  who averaged 4 points.

India Otto is a 5-9 Sr Guard who played just 6 games this past season and 3 games the previous season.

Clarice Akunwafo, 6-6 Soph Post who averaged 3 points and 3 rebounds.

Rayah Marshall, 6-4 Soph Forward who averaged 11 points and 8 rebounds.   

Bella Perkins is a 5-9 Soph  Guard from Virginia who was the State Gatorade POY.  Bella averaged 3 points.

 

The Schedule: 

Texas, that’s it for Power 5, plus U of San Diego hey look how good they are in WVB. 

 

 

Predictions:   

Five transfer out and three Graduate so eight gone with their 50 points per game.    However here come eight transfers in, plus six returning.   Crazy.  Marshall will start but I can’t guess what the other starters will be or the top 8.

 

2023 Recruiting Commits:  

Malia Samuels, 5-11 Guard from Seattle Ranked # 49