USC Triple-Double Podcast: Trojan seasons on the skids, Baker-Mazara no longer on team

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🗓️ 4 March 2026

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

The USC Triple-Double Podcast -- the Peristyle's basketball-focused podcast -- returns with Shotgun Spratling and new co-host India Otto breaking down the latest news and recent struggles of ⁠USC⁠ men's and women's basketball.

The Women of Troy finished the regular season dropping their final three games after their worst loss of the season, giving up a career-high 40 points to Kiyomi McMiller and falling on the road at Penn State before losing at home against No. 2 UCLA after giving up 22 offensive rebounds. On the men's side, things have been even worse as the Trojans dropped their fourth and fifth consecutive games the last week, including losing by 19 points to UCLA and then giving up 51 second-half points to let No. 12 Nebraska rally from a halftime deficit and roll to an easy victory.

But the bigger news came the day after the Huskers handed USC's men their fifth straight loss when the athletic department released a statement that active leading scorer Chad Baker-Mazara was no longer a member of the program.

The USC Triple-Double looks at all the latest in the Triple-Double segment before taking a look at where the USC men's and women's teams stand at this point in the season, seeing where they stack up in the standings and what is the latest bracketology involving the Trojans.

Finally the podcasting duo moves into ta preview of the week ahead where both programs try to right the ship as the USC men try to turn around their fortunes and move back up the bubble pecking order while the Women of Troy head to Indianapolis for the Big Ten Tournament. Both teams will face Washington first and then if USC's women win their opening conference tournament matchup, both teams will face off against UCLA.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the USC Triple Double podcast.
0:20.1	I'm your host Shotgun Sparling along with my co-host, India Otto, who's taken over for the remainder of the season after Mr. Triple Double, Connor Morset made the life choice to jump to the other side of town.
0:30.6	We give him a great nickname and he still jumps ship. I'm just kidding.
0:33.6	Connor's taken over as a lead reporter for the 24-7 UCLA site if you haven't seen the news
0:37.7	because, hey, even UCLA fans deserve good reporting. So though we don't have Mr. Triple Double,
0:43.3	we do have someone who can knock down triples in India. And I'm kind of now limited to doubling
0:48.1	down on someone defending in the pain, but I digress. My basketball skills are slowly fading away
0:54.0	as I'm not in the gym anymore. But India, how are we doing today? I'm good. I'm doing well. I'm excited to be here. Hop on the pod. He's a co-host and this is going to be fun. Love talking hoops and especially USC hoops. Yeah, we get you to talk a little bit more hoops. I know Ryan wants to keep hoops away as much as possible in the Peristyle
1:11.5	podcast. You're hosting more there. We'll get a little analyst action from India here. Anyone
1:17.9	that doesn't know India's track record, she's a four-year member of the women of Troy. She was a senior
1:21.3	on the squad when Lizzie Gottlie brought in the ivies, added Jujuwakins on the way to the first
1:25.8	of back-to-back elite eight appearances. So she's got a unique perspective not only on the game, but on much of the personnel still on the USC roster. And for any first-time listeners, the USC Triple Double podcast is part of the Peristyle podcast family shows. The USC Triple Double is a podcast focused on the Trojan men and women of Troy basketball programs. Each week during the season, we break down all the latest action for both teams and look
1:45.8	forward to the upcoming matchups.
1:47.6	And now we got India to provide some unique insight to it.
1:50.7	Unfortunately, she's jumping right into, I don't know, the pit of despair as both the
1:55.1	USC men and women suffered a pair of losses since our last USC triple double episode.
1:59.9	The men lose to UCLA, 8162.
2:02.7	They lose to Nebraska, 8267.
2:05.4	Neither game really that close.
2:07.4	Maybe the second half, not close against Nebraska.
2:09.9	First half, it looked good.
2:11.8	What happened after that?
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