USC Men’s Basketball Release Preseason Notes • Foreign Tour • Aug. 6-16, 2019 University of Southern California Sports Information Offi ce, Heritage Hall 103A, L.A., CA 90089-0601 - Phone: (213) 740-8480 - Fax: (213) 740-7584 2019-20 USC Schedule NEW LOOK TROJANS BEGIN WITH A FOREIGN TOUR Date Opponent Result/Time • 11-Day Trip To Spain & France Will Include 3 Games • 11/5 Florida A&M TBD 11/8 Portland TBD FOREIGN SUMMER TOUR -- The USC men’s basketball team completed 10 practices 11/12 South Dakota State TBD before it embarked on its foreign summer tour to Spain and France which runs Aug. 6-16. Dur- 11/16 at Nevada TBD ing the 11-day trip, USC will travel to Barcelona, Spain, Cannes, France and Paris France. The 11/19 Pepperdine TBD team will spend three nights in each destination and play one game in each city. Among the 11/22 Temple TBD cultural highlights on the trip will be a tour of La Sagrada Familia, a tour of the FC Barcelona 11/28 ^vs. Fairfi eld TBD Nou Camp, a catamaran trip to Ile Saint-Honorat, a day trip to Monaco and a Siene River boat 11/29 ^vs. Davidson/Marquette TBD cruise. USC will play exhibition games on Aug. 8 in Barcelona against a Spanish Select Team, 12/1 ^vs. TBD TBD Aug. 11 in Cannes vs. a French Select Team and on Aug. 14 in Paris vs. a Lithuania Select 12/6 at TCU TBD Team. Updates on the Trojans’ 2019 Foreign Summer Tour can be found on the school’s athletic 12/15 Long Beach State TBD website USCTrojans.com or on twitter @USC_Hoops. 12/21 vs. LSU TBD THE 2019-20 USC TROJANS -- The USC men’s basketball team will have a new look 12/29 FGCU TBD for the 2019-20 season as the core four of Jonah Mathews, Nick Rakocevic, Elijah Weaver and ----------------------------- Charles O’Bannon Jr. will be joined by nine newcomers which includes one of the top recruiting 1/1-5 at Washington State TBD classes nationally. The 2019-20 Trojans will be a team with many interchangeable parts and at Washington TBD feature players who can guard multiple positions. USC has won 87 games over the last four 1/8-12 at UCLA TBD seasons, the winningest four-year stretch in school history and the 2019-20 Trojans look to 1/15-19 Stanford TBD continue the upward trend. California TBD 1/22-26 at Oregon TBD ROSTER BREAKDOWN -- There are a total of 15 players on the 2019-20 USC men’s bas- at Oregon State TBD ketball roster. The Trojan team by class are: Seniors (5): Quinton Adlesh (G), McKay Anderson 1/29-2/2 Colorado TBD (G), Jonah Mathews (G), Nick Rakocevic (F), Daniel Utomi (G); Juniors (1): Noah Baumann Utah TBD (G); Sophomores (3): Talin Lewis (G), Charles O’Bannon Jr. (G), Elijah Weaver (G); Freshman 2/5-9 at Arizona TBD (6): Max Agbonkpolo (F), Ethan Anderson (G), Drake London (G), Isaiah Mobley (F), Onyeka at Arizona State TBD Okongwu (F), Kyle Sturdivant (G). 2/12-16 Washington TBD RECAP OF THE 2018-19 SEASON -- The 2018-19 Trojans went 16-17 and ranked tops Washington State TBD in the Pac-12 in three-point fi eld goal percentage, assists and assist to turnover ratio, while be- 2/19-23 at Utah TBD ing one of the conference’s top scoring team. The Trojans knocked off Arizona before falling at Colorado TBD 78-75 to Pac-12 regular season champion Washington in the Pac-12 Tournament quarterfi nals. 2/26-3/1 Arizona State TBD Arizona TBD USC TO FACE VILLANOVA IN EXHIBITION GAME AT GALEN - USC will host 3/4-7 UCLA TBD Villanova in an exhibition men’s basketball game at the Galen Center on Oct. 18 with the game ^ Orlando Invitational (Orlando, Fla.) time still to be determined. Proceeds from the game will benefi t the California Fire Foundation, which provides emotional and fi nancial assistance to families of fallen fi refi ghters, fi refi ghters -- Home Games in Bold , All times local to site -- and the communities they protect. 2019 Pac-12 Tournament (Las Vegas, Nev.) TROJANS HOST FLORIDA A&M IN OPENER -- USC will open the 2019-20 season by 3/11 First Round hosting Florida A&M at the Galen Center on November 5. The Rattlers were 12-19 last season, 3/12 Quarterfi nals going 9-7 in Mid-Eastern Atlantic Conference (MEAC) play to fi nish tied for 5th. It will be the 3/13 Semifi nals fi rst-ever meeting between USC and FAMU in men’s basketball. 3/14 Finals 2020 NCAA Tournament TROJANS TO PLAY AT THE ORLANDO INVITATIONAL - USC will be playing in the 2019 Orlando Invitational in Orlando, Fla. from Nov. 28-Dec. 1 at HP Field House. USC will 3/17-18 First Four open up facing Fairfi eld of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference on Nov. 28. The winner of the 3/19-22 First and Second Rounds game will face the winner of the Davidson/Marquette game on Nov. 29, with the other two teams 3/26-29 Regional Semifi nals & Finals facing off that day also. USC’s fi nal game at the Orlando Invitational will be on Dec. 1 vs. one of 4/4, 4/6 Final Four, Championship (Atlanta, Ga.) four teams: Harvard, Maryland, Temple and Texas A&M. The stocked fi eld includes fi ve teams USC Quick Facts which played in the 2019 postseason and four teams which won 23 or more games a year ago. Los Angeles, Calif. Location: USC’S FRESHMAN CLASS RANKED NO. 6 - USC’s freshman class of Max Agbonk- Enrolment: 47,500 (20,000 undergraduates) polo, Ethan Anderson, Drake London, Isaiah Mobley, Onyeka Okongwu and Kyle Sturdivant was Nickname: Trojans ranked No. 6 by 247Sports.com. Agbonkpolo led Santa Margarita Catholic to the CIF Southern Colors: Cardinal and Gold Section Div. I title by scoring 23 points and hitting the game winner. He was ranked as the No. Head Coach: Andy Enfi eld (7th year at USC) 5 prospect in California and No. 52 nationally by 247Sports. Anderson was the L.A. City Section Associate HC: Jason Hart (7th year at USC) Player of the Year and he led Fairfax High to the Open Division Championship. He ranked as Assistant Coaches:, Chris Capko (6th year the No. 4 point guard in California. London, at USC on a football scholarship as a wide receiver, at USC, 4th as assistant), Eric Mobley (2nd year was named to the CIF Southern Section Div. 4 fi rst team as he averaged 29.2 points and 11.9 at USC) rebounds per game. Mobley was a 2019 McDonald’s All-American and was ranked as the No. 1 recruit in Califonia and No. 15 nationally. Okongwu was named California “Mr. Basketball” each BROADCAST NEWS of the last two years and was ranked No. 17 nationally by ESPN.com. Sturdivant was named the 2019-20 - KABC 790 AM with Jordan Moore (pxp) No. 6 player in the state of Georgia and the No. 12 point guard in the country by 247Sports.com. UPCOMING SPECIAL EVENTS MATHEWS & RAKOCEVIC CLOSING IN ON 1,000 CAREER POINTS - USC Oct. 8 - Pac-12 Media Day senior guard Jonah Mathews enters the season with 974 career points scored and senior for- ward Nick Rakocevic begins the season with 965 career points scored. The pair are poised to become the 41st and 42nd Trojans to register 1,000 or more career points in a USC uniform. ALL ABOUT ENFIELD -- Andy Enfi eld, 50, a proven winner as a player, assistant coach and head coach, was named the USC men’s basketball head coach on April 1, 2013 and has quickly brought success to the Trojans’ basketball program. Results came immediately with the Trojans setting the school single-season USC INFORMATION win record and the most wins over a two-year, three-year and four-year period over the last four seasons. OUTLETS He guided the Trojans into the postseason in three consecutive seasons (2016-18), the fi rst time for USC since 2007-09, all while his athletes have set the program’s top team GPAs for the Spring, Fall and Summer sessions. Enfi eld has brought in six consecutive Top 30 recruiting classes, with the 2019 class ranking No. TROJANS ON THE WEB 7. Over the last two seasons, USC has had three players selected in the NBA Draft, tied for the fi fth-most by Current and historical USC men’s any program in the country. He now has an 110-93 record in his six seasons as the USC head coach and baskeball information, as well as news, is 151-121 in eight seasons as a head coach. The 2018-19 Trojans were bitten by the injury bug beginning late in the summer and only had as many as 10 scholarship players available for preseason practice four of statistics, and features can be found at the 30 sessions. Ultimately USC players missed 54 games due to injury and fi nished with a 16-17 record the USC website: www.usctrojans.com. after falling to regular season champion Washington 78-75 in the quarterfi nals of the Pac-12 Tournament. Enfi eld guided the 2017-18 Trojans to a 24-12 record and to a second place fi nish in the Pac-12, its highest The Pac-12 Conference web site ad- conference fi nish since tying for second in 2002 and its fi rst outright second-place fi nish since 1992.