USC Triple-Double: Trojans MBB season preview with Eric Musselman joining the show

Peristyle Podcast - USC Trojan Football Discussion

Ryan Abraham - USCFootball,com publisher

Sports, Basketball, Football

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

The USC Triple-Double Podcast -- the Peristyle Podcast's basketball-focused podcast -- returns with co-hosts Shotgun Spratling and Connor Morrissette (aka Mr. Triple Double) previewing the 2025-26 USC men's basketball season after the Trojans completed their preseason with a 67-61 victory at Grand Canyon to go 2-0 in exhibition play. But first the podcasting duo are joined by USC head coach Eric Musselman as he is about to embark on his second season with the Trojans. Musselman talks about what the coaching staff learned from the preseason scrimmages and how they use the early exhibitions in their assessment of who to put on the floor when the games actually count starting next week. He discusses his concerns with USC's shooting and offensive flow as well as where he thinks the defense is different this season. Musselman also talks about the emergence of Jerry Easter at the point guard spot and how Youngstown State transfer Gabe Dynes has surprised many with his impact on both ends of the court. Musselman provides injury updates on Rodney Rice and Alijah Arenas and discusses the new challenges of high school recruiting in the current era with the transfer portal and revenue sharing. After a break, Shotgun and Connor discuss what they saw from the exhibition and what can be gleaned from the action that featured the Trojans jumping out to another huge lead early and then holding off any rally attempts. The podcasters then give their superlative predictions for the USC men's basketball season. Please review, rate and subscribe to the Peristyle Podcast on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Apple Podcasts⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠! Make sure you check out ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠USCFootball.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for complete coverage of this USC Trojans basketball and football teams. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the U.S.C. Triple double podcast. I'm your host, Shockin on Sparly.
0:20.7	Hello, my co-host, Connor Mor, Seth, Mr. Triple Double himself.
0:24.4	Connor, as we record this, we are one week away from opening day in college basketball.
0:29.4	How are you feeling about the college basketball season starting?
0:32.2	Feeling great. It seems like we just did the Triple Double podcast, but we got a lot to talk about because the season's right around the corner. So football, of course, is top of mind for a lot of people, but don't forget about basketball. Seasons here. Yeah, I'm not prepared for it yet. I just feel I just, I went to this couple of fall baseball games recently. I'm not prepared for basketball to completely be here, but it is. It's here in a week. Men are going to play on Monday next week. The women are going to play on Tuesday, both getting started. We're going to hope to have a women's preview later in the week. So this episode is going to be focused on the men. But I've got to ask you, what's your big prediction for the 2025, 2025, 2026 season as of right now? You've got a national national champion, you got something oddball, you got a player of the year.
1:13.7	What do you got?
1:14.2	What's your big prediction?
1:16.6	Okay, big prediction.
1:19.5	Off the top of my head, national champion.
1:23.4	I mean, I think Duke looks pretty good right now with those booser twins.
1:28.0	I saw some of that exhibition game.
1:30.3	That's not exactly going out on a ledge and saying that they'll be the national title team.
1:35.8	But very early intel and all the info that I've been able to gather so far, which isn't a ton.
1:41.5	I'll say that.
1:43.0	All right.
1:43.4	I like it.
1:44.0	We'll see if they can do more with the Boozer twins than they could with Cooper Flack.
1:48.9	We'll have to keep an eye out for that going for.
1:51.9	We'll see what Duke can do.
1:53.0	We'll see what UNC.
1:54.2	I grew up for UNC.
1:56.2	And so my roommate, her brother went to Duke.
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