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🏀 Women beat Iowa
🤽 2 finalists
⚔️ And much, much more!

📈 STOCK UP

🔼 Victory! The women’s basketball team beat No. 8 Iowa 81-69 on Thursday. The Trojans handed the Hawkeyes their first Big Ten loss of the season. Kara Dunn led the team with a double-double of 25 points and 11 rebounds. Jazzy Davidson followed with 21 points. The team shot 45.6% from the field.

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🔼 Finalists. The men’s water polo team has two athletes who were named Peter J. Cutino Award Finalists. Robert López Duart and Mihailo Vukazic are the 14th and 15th Trojans to be named finalists for the top honor of collegiate water polo.

Today’s Top Tier Performance presented by ARCO is men’s tennis player Max Exsted. Exsted was named the Big Ten Men’s Tennis Freshman of the Week. This is his second time earning the honor in his career. He owns a 3-1 singles record after three weeks of competition.

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Academic Summary. The USC student-athletes set new academic marks in the fall 2025 semester. Every team had above a 3.00 GPA. The athletic department semester GPA was 3.270.

A total of ### student-athletes earned a 3.00 term GPA or better.

Think you’ve got it? Scroll down for the answer!

📆 THE DAYS AHEAD

Friday, January 30

👟 Track & Field DeLoss Dodds Invite
🏊 Swim vs. UCLA
🤽 Women’s Water Polo Triton Invitational
🎾 Women’s Tennis at Stanford @ 1:30pm PT
🏐 Men’s Volleyball vs. Ohio State @ 7pm PT | Live Stats | Watch | Tickets

Saturday, January 31

👟 Track & Field DeLoss Dodds Invite
🏊 Swim vs. UCLA
🤽 Women’s Water Polo Triton Invitational
🎾 Men’s Tennis at California @ 10am PT
🎾 Women’s Tennis at California @ 1:30pm PT
🏀 Men’s Basketball vs. Rutgers @ 4pm PT | Live Stats | Watch | Tickets

Sunday, February 1

🤽 Women’s Water Polo Triton Invitational
⛳️ Women’s Golf Therese Hession Regional Challenge
🎾 Men’s Tennis at Stanford @ 12pm PT
🏀 Women’s Basketball vs. Rutgers @ 2pm PT | Live Stats | Tickets

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🎉 TRIVIA ANSWER

Answer: 418!

⚔️ Have a great Friday, everyone!