USC Basketball: Trojans Achieve Rare Tandem Feat

The Cardinal and Gold is on the ascent!

The three perimeter starters on your USC Trojans men’s basketball squad unlocked a unique prolific metric in recent team history Saturday. 

Freshman guard Isaiah Collier, fifth-year senior guard Boogie Ellis, and junior wing Kobe Johnson all scored 20 or more points as they helped propel the Trojans to a 93-79 trouncing over the Stanford Cardinal. The win, USC’s second straight, bumped the Trojans to a semi-respectable 8-7 record on the young 2023-24 NCAA season, while dropping the Cardinal, a Pac-12 rival, to 7-7.

According to USC’s official Twitter/X account, this marked the first moment in five seasons that three USC players have notched those kinds of offensive numbers simultaneously.

Collier, who was just named the Pac-12 Freshman of the Week for the third time this year, led the way with a college career-high 26 points on 9-of-15 shooting from the floor (3-of-4 from distance) and 5-of-8 shooting from the charity stripe. He also contributed four assists and three rebounds.

Johnson had 21 points on 9-of-18 shooting from the field (2-of-4 from three-point land), plus five assists and five rebounds.

Ellis scored 22 points on 8-of-14 field goal shooting (including a whopping 6-of-8 from long range), five rebounds and four dimes.