Good Morning Trojans. The spring season is right around the corner! Mark your calendars for the men’s volleyball matches coming up. Here’s the program’s 2026 schedule.

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🏀 Win #8
🏀 Injury report
⚔️ And much, much more!

📈 STOCK UP

🔼 Got the Dub. The women’s basketball team beat Cal Poly 86-39 on Thursday. The Trojans shot 43.6% from the field and made nine three-pointers. Londynn Jones led the game with a career-high 28 points. Jazzy Davidson had 17 points. USC excelled in points off turnovers. The women had 39 compared to Cal Poly’s two. The bench produced 45 points.

🔼 Update. Men’s basketball player Rodney Rice suffered an injury to his right shoulder on Tuesday, Nov. 25. He will have to undergo surgery and miss the remainder of the season. Rice started in all six games he played at USC and averaged 20.3 points, 6.0 assists and 3.3 rebounds per game.

🔼 Welcome! The men’s basketball team signed Kam Woods. He will be immediately eligible for the Trojans. Woods recently played at Robert Morris. In 97 career games, Woods has averaged 12.7 points, 3.6 rebounds and 3.1 assists per game.

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🔼 Are We Surprised? Football players Makai Lemon and Bishop Fitzgerald have been named to yet another postseason honor. The two have been selected to the 2025 Football Writers Association of America All-America First Team. Learn more about the players here.

Today’s Top Tier Performance presented by ARCO is London Wijay. Wijay earned an AVCA All-American Honorable Mention. She ranked eighth in the league for kills (400) and was 12th in kills per set (3.48kps). She reached double-digit kills 24 times and double-digit points 26 times this season.

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New Leader. Learfield and USC Athletics announced that Wayne Guymon has been named the Vice President & General Manager of the new locally based team, Learfield’s USC Sports Properties.

Guymon has ## years of experience in leading sales and partnership efforts.

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📆 THE DAYS AHEAD

Sunday, December 21

🏀 Men’s Basketball vs. UC Santa Cruz @ 1pm ET
🏀 Women’s Basketball at California @ 5:30pm ET | Live Stats | Tickets

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🎉 TRIVIA ANSWER

Answer: 25!

⚔️ Have a great Friday, everyone!