Good morning! The standard is the standard. It’s time for the return of basketball, and both Trojan basketball programs are ready to embark on their highly anticipated seasons tonight in Las Vegas.

What all can you find in today's Brew?

🤽‍♂️ The Charm
🏀 It’s Go Time
⚔️ And much, much more!

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🔼 Third Time’s The Charm. In the third game of the season against Stanford, the Trojans picked up a crucial conference victory over the No. 3 ranked Cardinal behind redshirt freshman Bernardo Herzer’s career 14-save performance. After USC struck first in the match, the Trojans never relinquished the lead with Andrej Grgurevic putting together a hat-trick on the offensive side of the pool.

Improving to 11-5 on the season, the Trojans will close out regular season play against crosstown rival UCLA at home in the Uytengsu Aquatics Center.

🔼 Season Finale. The Trojans will await placement in the NCAA Soccer Selection Show later today coming off a hard-fought 4-2 loss to No. 2 UCLA on Friday night. Despite getting off more shots than the Bruins, the Trojans were unable to mount a comeback following Kayla Duran’s first goal of the season and Simone Jackson’s late-game outside-the-box strike. USC finished the season with a stellar 10-4-3 record and ranked inside the top 25.

🔼 Kept the Fight. After keeping up with fifth-ranked Washington for most of the game, the Trojans were ultimately unable to mount a comeback and fell 52-42 in the high-powered offensive display. Caleb Williams out-dueled Washinton’s passing attack, throwing for 312 yards and scoring four touchdowns - three of which were through the air. Tahj Washington was the favorite target on the night, finishing with eight receptions, 122 yards and a score, and running back Austin Jones rushed for over 100 yards on just 11 attempts.

🔼 Desert Domination. The No. 7 ranked women’s swimming and diving Trojans went into the desert and came away with a pair of victories, continuing on their successful start to the season. The tone was set early with win in the 200y medley relay as Caroline Famous, Kaitlyn Dobler, Anicka Delgado and Vasilissa Buinaia combined to clock a 1:35.37 en route to a win. 

📚️ Read more about USC swim and dive’s weekend

🔼 Impressive Stuff. Completing one of the more successful fall seasons in recent history, Karl Lee closed out the fall slate in his second championship match of the season. He finished the fall with a staggering 13-4 record and outscored opponents 48-19 up until the championship match in which he was unable to take home the win.

Lee and the rest of Trojan men’s tennis now heads into the offseason and will return to action in the spring of 2024.

🔼 Time to Ball. It’s what many Trojan fans have all been waiting for…USC basketball season. The men’s team will tipoff their season in the entertainment capital of the world in the Hall of Fame Series against last season’s Elite Eight participant, Kansas State.

Boogie Ellis and Kobe Johnson will lead the team as its captains with massive talent surrounding all around them. Freshman Isaiah Collier will look to make an immediate impact while all-defensive teamer Joshua Morgan will only add to the lockdown defense of the squad. Head coach Andy Enfield returns for his 11th season at the helm, ranking fourth in USC basketball history in his time with the Trojans.

🔼 More Desert Domination. After besting Arizona on Friday night, the Women of Troy completed another sweep, this time against No. 15 Arizona State. Standout Skylar Fields recorded her 2,000th career kill after adding 24 in the match with the Trojans out-hitting the Sun Devils with a .358 hitting percentage compared to a .211 hitting percentage.

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All-Time Winner. USC basketball is nearly underway, and the men’s team has seen its fair share of wins since Coach Enfield made his way to the Galen Center.

Our question today—do you know how many wins head coach Andy Enfield has racked up in his 11 seasons?

Think you got it? Scroll on down to the bottom of this email for the answer!

⚔️ ONE BIG THING

On the precipice of the 2023-24 season opener, two Women of Troy received some national recognition. Rayah Marshall and Juju Watkins were both named to the Naismith Watch List, an award given to college basketball’s best player. Both Trojans were named to the Preseason All-Pac-12 Team as each will look to lead the team in different ways.

Marshall, the team’s star forward/center was also named to the preseason watch list for Lisa Leslie Center of the Year. She joins the USC coming off of a season where she recorded 14 double-doubles and averaged 3.5 blocks per game. Watkins enters the season fresh off at 2023 Naismith National High School Player of the Year and will be one of the team’s starting guards.

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📅 LOOKING AHEAD

*all times Pacific

Monday 11/6

🏀 Women’s Basketball vs. Ohio State @ 11:00am in Las Vegas, NV | Watch | Live Stats

🏀 Men’s Basketball vs. Kansas State @ 7:00pm in Las Vegas, NV | Watch | Listen | Live Stats

Tuesday 11/7

No scheduled events

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🎉 TRIVIA ANSWER

Answer: 205!

Coach Enfield picked up his 200th win this past February and trails the all-time leader in wins, Sam Barry, by just 55 games.

⚔️ Have a great Monday, everyone!