Good morning, Trojan Family. Come out and support the 44th Annual Swim With Mike Celebration taking place at Uytengsu Aquatics Center on Saturday! Register here.

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🏐 10th-straight win
🏀 Season finale
⚔️ And much, much more!

📈 STOCK UP

🔼 Ranked Win. The No. 3 men’s volleyball team beat No. 8 Pepperdine 3-1. This is the team’s 10th straight win. Jack Deuchar led the team with 16 kills and two aces. The Trojans had a hitting percentage of .303 compared to Pepperdine’s .290.

🏐 See the game stats.

🔼 Just One. The men’s basketball team fell to Villanova in the quarterfinals of the College Basketball Crown 60-59. Rashuan Agee scored 22 points. This was his first time having back-to-back 20-point games of his career. Saint Thomas led the team with 23 points and 10 rebounds for his first double-double of the season.

Today’s Top Tier Performance presented by ARCO is JuJu Watkins. Watkins was awarded two huge honors. She was named the 2025 Jersey Mike’s Naismith Player of the Year Trophy Winner and the Associated Press Player of the Year. She is the third women’s basketball player in program history to earn the Naismith award and first for the AP award.

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Not Mid, but Mid. D1Baseball and PG College Baseball each named one Trojan to Midseason awards.

_____ is on the 2025 Midseason First-Team All-America honor and Midseason 2-Way Player of the Year honor.

Think you got it? Scroll to the bottom for the answer!

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📅 THE DAYS AHEAD

Friday, April 4

⛳️ Women’s Golf Augusta National Women’s Amateur
👟 Track & Field Battle at the Beach
🏐 Beach Volleyball at Stanford/Hawai’i @ 12/2pm PT
🎾 Men’s Tennis at Penn State @ 1pm PT
⚾️ Baseball vs. Ohio State @ 6:30pm PT | Live Stats | Watch

Saturday, April 5

⛳️ Women’s Golf Augusta National Women’s Amateur
👟 Track & Field Triton Invite
🏐 Beach Volleyball at Washington/North Florida @ 12/3pm PT
🎾 Women’s Tennis vs. Minnesota @ 12pm PT | Live Stats | Watch
🥍 Women’s Lacrosse vs. Maryland @ 1pm PT | Live Stats
⚾️ Baseball vs. Ohio State @ 2pm PT | Live Stats | Watch
🏐 Men’s Volleyball at Pepperdine @ 5pm PT | Live Stats | Watch | Tickets

Sunday, April 6

🎾 Men’s Tennis at Ohio @ 9am PT
🎾 Women’s Tennis vs. Wisconsin @ 12pm PT | Live Stats | Watch
⚾️ Baseball vs. Ohio State @ 1pm PT | Live Stats | Watch

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🎉 TRIVIA ANSWER

Answer: Ethan Hedges!

⚔️ Have a great Friday, everyone!