USC Basketball: Andy Enfield On Trojans' Rebounding Season - "We Have No Time For Softness"

It's a little late to have that revelation, but okay.

With your USC Trojans' better-late-than-never 68-64 victory over the Utah Utes on Thursday, the club has improved to a still-bad 10-15 record on the 2023-24 season. 

All its hopes of an NCAA Tournament appearance now effectively hinge on winning the Pac-12 Tournament outright, the odds of which feel pretty darn slim as we write this.

After nabbing the win, 11th-year USC head coach Andy Enfield spoke to gathered media about how his club managed to turn things around this week, following two ugly losses. The club apparently took a break on Sunday, following its most recent defeat, a 99-68 embarrassment Saturday to the Stanford Cardinal.

Enfield explained how he insisted on galvanizing his squad by re-emphasizing toughness down the home stretch of the season.

"We have no time for softness," Enfield said. "If you can't go hard, just go home... Give our guys credit, we had three great days of practice. They went at each other as teammates do... We mixed the teams up for three straight days, and it was very, very competitive."

Here's his (pretty honest) full presser:

Only three Trojans: guards Isaiah Collier (15 points, plus six assists and five rebounds) and Boogie Ellis (11 points, plus three rebounds and three assists) and redshirt senior forward transfer DJ Rodman (12 points, along with seven rebounds and four assists) scored in double figures.