USC Triple-Double Podcast: USC men and women combine for 4-0 week, Ezra Ausar joins the show
Peristyle Podcast - USC Trojan Football Discussion
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🗓️ 6 February 2026
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
The USC Triple-Double Podcast -- the Peristyle's basketball-focused podcast -- returns with co-hosts Shotgun Spratling and Connor Morrissette (aka Mr. Triple Double) breaking down USC men's basketball hanging on to beat Rutgers, 78-75, and earning a Quad 1 win over Indiana. The duo also discusses the USC women blowing out Rutgers at home and Northwestern on the road.
Spratling and Morrissette then interview USC men's basketball forward Ezra Ausar to discuss Ausar's breakout season, why he's better in the second half of games, his brother winning a Grammy Award and much more.
The USC Triple-Double continues with a look at where the women's and men's teams stack up nationally in multiple statistical categories before moving to a preview of a week where both programs will have the chance to continue to make up ground in the Big Ten standings. The men play at Penn State and Ohio State next, and the women play at Illinois and then host Indiana.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the U.S.C. Triple Double podcast. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm your host Shotgungun, Sparling. |
| 0:21.0 | Hello with my co-host, Mr. Triple Double himself. Connor, how are we doing today? Doing well, shotgun. We got some victories to talk about that. Hasn't always been the case this year. A four and oh week for us since the last time we've podcast. We'll break all that down here in a minute. But for any first time listeners, the USC Triple Double Double podcast is part of the Pairs style podcast family shows. The USC Triple Double is a podcast focused on the Trojan men and women of Troy basketball programs, and each week during the season, we'll be breaking down all the latest action for both the men's and women's teams and looking forward to their upcoming matchups as well. We'll also try to have some guests join the show. This week, we're excited to have USC Forward Ezra Asar joining us a little bit later. That should be a really |
| 0:59.7 | fun conversation. But first, let's jump into our recap of the last week with our triple double |
| 1:03.8 | segment where we look at the games in our own unique way with three positives and two negatives. |
| 1:09.7 | Now, the results, as you mentioned, |
| 1:12.0 | four and O, the men beat Rutgers 78 to 75. Game got a lot closer than it was at one point. |
| 1:18.3 | And then they beat Indiana, 81.75. Really nice win there. Women on the women side, they take care |
| 1:23.7 | of business beating Rutgers 71-39. They beat Northwestern 83 to 65. |
| 1:28.2 | We'll start on the men's side. |
| 1:29.0 | Women's side where you want to start? |
| 1:30.8 | I think let's start with the men just because they got probably the best win out of the group |
| 1:35.4 | beating Indiana. |
| 1:36.7 | So let's start there. |
| 1:38.7 | Elijah Rinas shotgun. |
| 1:40.3 | He didn't have the greatest first half against Indiana, missed eight straight field goals at one point. |
| 1:46.6 | He came out early from halftime to shoot in the second half, and you could tell he wasn't satisfied, |
| 1:53.0 | and then what happens? |
| 1:54.0 | He ends up scoring 29 points, 19 in the second half, and probably my favorite play from that game. |
| 2:01.6 | He did a really nice move with the top of the key, hit a three, and then kind of raised |
| 2:05.5 | his arms in disbelief for like celebration. |
| 2:08.2 | Like it was just a really cool freshman moment. |
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