USC Basketball: Arizona Blew Out Trojans Despite Woeful Shooting Night

A win is a win.

Despite connecting on a scant 40% of their field goal tries, the Arizona Wildcats managed to massacre your USC Trojans (who made a still-meh 42.6% of their field goal tries), 82-67, on Wednesday night. The Trojans were missing both members of their starting backcourt, in freshman guard Isaiah Collier (who's still recuperating from a hand surgery) and fifth-year All-Pac-12 star Boogie Ellis (who's been sidelined since January 10th with a hamstring ailment).

Arizona head coach Tommy Lloyd was fairly unhappy with his club's win-ugly approach, per The Los Angeles Times/Associated Press.

“Arizona basketball is a show,” Lloyd said. “I wish we would have played better for everybody tonight, but at the end of the day we got the result we wanted. It didn’t feel great, but we did.”

Fifth-year senior Wildcats forward Keshad Johnson remarked that the team made an effort to stay aggressive, even with its shots not falling. He finished with a 10-point, 13-rebound double-double on the night.

‘Offensively, we’ve got to go hard whether we’re making shots or not,” Johnson said.

During his first season in Arizona (he transferred from San Diego State), the 6'7" Johnson is averaging 11.8 points on .551/.364/.778 shooting splits, along with 6.5 rebounds, 1.8 assists and 1.2 steals a night.