USC Triple-Double Podcast: Senior DJ Rodman on why Trojans have become such a tight-knit group + Women's P12 Tournament preview

Peristyle Podcast - USC Trojan Football Discussion

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🗓️ 7 March 2024

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Shotgun Spratling and Connor Morrissette (aka Mr. Triple Double) return with another episode of the The USC Triple-Double Podcast, breaking down the Women of Troy's road sweep of the Arizona schools, which included the best game of the year with the Trojans beating Arizona in double overtime without JuJu Watkins in crunch time. They also look into what USC mens road split at No. 19 Washington State and Washington means for the potential of the Trojans to make a run in the Pac-12 Tournament.

The men will get their chance in Las Vegas next week to try to make a four-day run to the NCAA tournament, but first the Women of Troy will try to improve upon their NCAA tournament resume with a run in this week's women's Pac-12 tournament. Shotgun and Connor preview how that could play out in a bracket as the No. 2 seed. USC enters this week's tournament with its highest ranking -- No. 5 -- in the Associated Press top 25 poll in 30 years and at No. 13 in the NET rankings. In the NCAA's latest unveiling of the projected top 16 seeds, the Trojans moved up from No. 9 to No. 8 and bumped up to a two seed.

Shotgun and Connor break down all the latest action for both teams, including looking closely at Isaiah Collier's career-best performance, helping will the Trojans to a win at Washington. They also look at all the accolades that JuJu Watkins continues to collect, including the Pac-12 Freshman of the Year award and a national Freshman of the Year honor. The podcasting duo also look at the positives and negatives of the recent USC basketball action from both squads, including the team efforts of the women to win without Watkins and the positive momentum the men have been building with a couple of players really fitting into their roles recently.

After the break, senior forward DJ Rodman joins the show to discuss the recent upswing in the Trojans' play and how they can carry it forward for the final week of the regular season and the Pac-12 Tournament next week. Rodman talks about the bond he's created with his teammates and why the group has stuck together and continued to fight for one another despite all the struggles and failure to meet expectations this season. Rodman also discusses the rapidly improving play of freshman Isaiah Collier and what it's like playing for head coach Andy Enfield.

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0:00.0	Yeah.
0:17.0	Welcome back to another edition of the USC Triple Double Podcast. I'm your host Shotgun Spryriling along with my co-host Connor
0:23.8	Morsette Mr. Triple Double himself check out those consonants in the last name
0:27.9	Connor how are we doing today? Doing well shotgun it's March so here we go.
0:32.8	Oh get excited baby it's March Madness time but how many teams will there be from
0:38.1	USC that make it that's going to be the interesting thing. Can the men make a run
0:43.1	and make something interesting happen in Las Vegas
0:46.5	to then get propelled themselves
0:48.2	into the NCA tournament?
0:49.4	It's gonna take a big time effort,
0:51.0	it's gonna take a team effort,
0:52.1	and we'll talk with one of those players later
0:54.6	about what it will take from their perspective to make a run but they still got a couple
0:58.8	games to finish up the women in Troy are actually finished with their regular season.
1:03.6	We'll get that in a second for any first-time listeners, the USC Triple Double
1:06.8	podcast, part of the Pear Style Podcast family shows.
1:09.7	The USC Triple Double is a podcast focused on the Trojan men and women of Troy basketball programs.
1:14.8	Each week we break down all the latest action for both teams as well as look forward to the upcoming matchups.
1:19.4	This week we're looking at, like I said, the end of the women's regular season while the men heading to their final week coming off at road win at Washington after a tough loss to a ranked Washington state team but they seem to be playing a little bit better.
1:32.0	Absolutely let's get into that recap.
1:35.0	So it started up in Pullman and the men, they led shotgun for over 35 minutes on the road against
1:41.0	number, the then 19 team in the country, Washington
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