How many times has the USC men’s basketball team won an NCAA title?

Zero.

That’s what number of males’s basketball nationwide championship banners dangle at USC‘s Galen Middle.

The Trojans have made the Remaining 4 twice — again in 1940, when eight groups made the complete event, and 1954, when the event consisted of 16 groups. Since then, they’ve made it to the Candy 16 4 occasions (1961, 2001, 2007, 2021) and the Elite Eight twice (2001, 2021).

However whereas this system hasn’t had a lot sustained success through the years, it has been gathering momentum underneath ninth-year coach Andy Enfield. The Trojans have received 21 or extra video games in six of his previous seven seasons, together with a college file 25 regular-season video games this season.

Enfield earned Pac-12 coach of the 12 months honors in 2021, and that was earlier than main the Trojans on an surprising run to the Elite Eight. Simply as rumors began to swirl that Enfield would contemplate different faculty teaching jobs if a super one emerged, USC signed him to his second contract extension in lower than a 12 months earlier this week, conserving him round by the 2027-28 season.

Final 12 months’s postseason run additionally raised the profile of star participant Isaiah Mobley, who had been dwelling within the shadow of his youthful brother. However with Evan Mobley now with the NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers, Isaiah is the Trojans’ chief, averaging a team-high 14.6 factors and eight.5 rebounds a recreation.

USC ahead Drew Peterson joined Mobley on the All-Pac 12 Convention first staff.