USC Basketball: Trojans Should Lean On Sophomore's 3PT Game To Take Down Bruins

USC's sophomore guard has the team's second-best three-point shooting percentage.

Your USC Trojans will take on their cross-town rivals, the UCLA Bruins for the first time this season. The Trojans will look for their sixth straight win over the Bruins at the Galen Center, while UCLA will look to get their third win in four games. 

The Galen Center will be rockin' and rollin' for tonight's rivalry game, and it will be on the Trojans to keep that momentum on their side. All hands must be on deck for the Men of Troy, especially sophomore guard Oziyah Sellers. 

Sellers is one of the Trojan's best three-point shooters, and they'll need everything from him in their matchup against the Bruins in that department. 

USC sophomore guard

Oziyah Sellers'

stock continues to rise. He scored a career-high 18 points scored at Colorado on Jan. 13 and added 10 points at Arizona on Jan. 17. He has scored in double-figures four times this season and is averaging 6.1 points per game, after averaging 1.1 ppg last season. Sellers has made 14 of his last 27 three-point shots (51.9 percent) and leads USC with an 81.3 shooting percentage from the free throw line.

(per USCTrojans.com)

Sellers is a 41% three-point shooter behind the team's leader, guard Boogie Ellis. Sellers has been on fire from three as of late, and he'll need to continue that play against the lousy UCLA three-point shooting defense. 

The Bruins rank 131 in opponent three-point shooting at 32.6% and allow 7.8 three-point makes, ranked 246 in the country. The Trojans must take advantage of this category to come out with the win. 

However, it won't be easy; in a rivalry game, you could throw away all the numbers; it's all about who wants it more.