USC Triple-Double Podcast: Women of Troy to take on Clemson in NCAA tournament; Trojans land two five-stars
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🗓️ 18 March 2026
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
The USC Triple-Double Podcast -- the Peristyle's basketball-focused podcast -- returns with Shotgun Spratling and India Otto previewing the opening weekend of the NCAA tournament where the No. 9-seed Women of Troy will face off against No. 8-seed Clemson with the winner likely to face regional top seed South Carolina.
The podcasting duo open the show with a Triple-Double segment focused on wrapping up the 2025-26 season for Eric Musselman's USC men's basketball team.
After the break, they look at the future both down the road and later this week. Shotgun and India break down the commitment of five-star post player Sara Okeke for the Women of Troy and discuss what she'll add to the super team Lindsay Gottlieb is compiling. They then look at the matchup with the Clemson Tigers in the opening round of the NCAA tournament as well as the potential rematch with the No. 1-seed Gamecocks.
Shotgun and India are about to wrap up the show when news breaks as Bellflower (Calif.) St. John Bosco five-star Christian Collins commits to the USC men, giving the Trojans three McDonald's All-Americans in the 2026 recruiting class.
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| 0:00.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:16.6 | Hello and welcome to the USC Triple Double podcast. |
| 0:19.4 | I'm your host, Shack and Sparling. |
| 0:20.3 | Hello, my co-host today, India, how are we doing today? Doing great. I'm excited to talk March madness and hoops. It is March. There is madness going on. At least one USC team will be participating. So for any first time listeners out there, 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 forward to the upcoming matchups. Well, we're going to wrap up the season for one program. While we actually do get to look forward to some upcoming matchups for the other program. |
| 0:55.2 | Well, let's start, you want to start with the men? Let's just get them out of the way. |
| 0:58.2 | Let's wrap up their season real quick. Let's go triple double because there were no games last week. |
| 1:03.8 | The women were off the men. I mean, they did play one game, but it was over pretty quick. |
| 1:09.7 | So, you know, they lose an overtime to Washington |
| 1:12.7 | A3, 6, and 79. So instead of just breaking down that game individually, a game that they had a chance |
| 1:18.2 | to win, but they weren't going to make a run to the entire tournament. So let's just look at the |
| 1:23.9 | entire season. Let's do a triple double of the entire season just to wrap it up. |
| 1:29.1 | And now we may have a full wrap-up show for both programs later. And, you know, as we get a couple |
| 1:34.3 | weeks into March Madness or whenever the tournament is over for the women of Troy. But let's |
| 1:39.0 | start with the men. Three positives, two negatives, or maybe we won't get that many positives. |
| 1:45.1 | What do you got to start with, India? |
| 1:47.6 | I've got, let's start with negatives for me. |
| 1:49.8 | My first negative or down, whatever you want to call it, is how they close out the regular |
| 1:54.5 | season. |
| 1:55.1 | We've talked about this before, but the Trojans really struggled down the stretch, |
| 1:58.8 | and this is the second year in a row now that they didn't make the tournament. |
| 2:02.4 | They had a chance, obviously, how the end of the season changed that. |
| 2:07.1 | It's a big deal because USC obviously brought in Eric Musselman to get the program kind of back to being one of the top teams in the country and to make the NCAA tournament consistently. |
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