I am not going to get to crazy with hoops until after football season ends.

The reasons are obvious...I am not really into hoops and there way too many questions with this years team after the all crap from last season...BTW whatever happened with all that?

USC went from being a potential Pac-10 front runner to being picked 9th in this years Pac-10 media poll.

USC BASKETBALL FYI

Trojans picked to finish ninth in Pac-10 basketball

USC Coach Kevin O'Neill says the team will follow the lead of guard Dwight Lewis.

It sounded like a compliment.

"As he goes, basically, we'll go," first-year USC basketball Coach Kevin O'Neill said of guard Dwight Lewis.

Members of the media don't expect that to be very far. In a vote, they picked the Trojans to finish next to last in the Pacific 10 Conference.

But that isn't Lewis' fault. He averaged a team-high 14.4 points last season and also played well defensively on the perimeter.

After Lewis?

" . . . We basically have a bunch of guys that haven't played very much," O'Neill said Thursday at the conference's basketball media day.

Well, we all knew it wasn't going to be pretty.

I have not even tried to look at this team so I can't make an educated observation at this point. I will definitely take a much closer look in December but right now I have too many other things to keep me busy.

Here is some other notes and video from Media Day

- - -

Here is something funny...

The best coverage of Kevin O'Neill's presser was at the DN's ucla Blog.

You can read it here...

- - -

Check out Trojan Fever it is the USC basketball version for RipsIt .

- - -

Jill Painter has a nice write-up on this years team...