USC Basketball: Andy Enfield Assumes Blame For Trojans' Latest Miserable Game

USC's head coach weighs in.

Barring a bonkers turnaround, your 9-15 (3-10 in the Pac-12) USC Trojans seemingly put the final nail in the coffin for their March Madness hopes with a 99-68 blowout loss to the Stanford Cardinal on Saturday.

As Luca Evans of The Orange County Register details, head coach Andy Enfield shouldered a lot of the blame for his club's brutal season thus far.

“It is disappointing,” Enfield said. “And so that’s on us, on me as a head coach. We’re not going to start pointing fingers.”

“We made some defensive mistakes, but every time we made one, they made us pay,” Enfield conceded. “That’s on us as a coaching staff, and players. We’re all in this together.”

Stanford made a record 19 triples and out-rebounded the Trojans 41-25. USC shot a middling 26-of-58 from the floor, brutalized by a miserable 6-of-20 conversion rate from beyond the arc.

USC has its sights set on this year's impending Pac-12 Tournament. The Trojans have a scant seven games remaining in their 2023-24 season, which has gone anything but smoothly since the team was ranked among the Associated Press' preseason list of its top 25 squads. Midseason injuries to Boogie Ellis and Isaiah Collier sure didn't help, but the team struggled both before and after both players went down.