I’d say he’s pretty raw, but you can see why coaches like his frame and athleticism.

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I'm ready for some basketball. Let's go!

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No. 1 USC opens Big Ten tournament play by taking on No. 9 Indiana at 9 a.m. PT Friday in the quarterfinals on Big Ten Network.

Indiana (19-11) won 78-62 over No. 8 Oregon today to advance.

USC beat Indiana, 73-66, back in January on the road, led by 22 points from JuJu Watkins, while the Hoosiers had four scorers in double figures led by 16 from Sydney Parrish.

Indiana is a deep squad led by Yarden Garzon (14.2 PPG, 5.2 RPG), Parrish (12.1 PPG, 5.6 RPG), Shay Ciezki (11.5 PPG), Karoline Striplin (10.1 PPG) and Chloe Moore-McNeil (9.6 PPG).

A place check out all the offers the coaching staff hands out throughout the year without scouring social media. #Blessed

I think his future is at guard, but I like his potential more than the other two I’ve posted so far.

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Here are clips of 2026 USC quarterback target Ryder Lyons throwing at the Rivals Camp stop at East LA College last weekend.

Here's a comprehensive rundown, which we'll keep adding to ...

June 6-8

Five-star Rivals100 WR Boobie Feaster (DeSoto, Texas)
Five-star Rivals100 WR Chris Henry Jr. (Mater Dei HS)
Four-star Rivals100 WR Kayden Dixon-Wyatt (Mater Dei HS)
Four-star Rivals250 DT Tiki Hola (Bastrop, Texas)
Four-star Rivals250 LB Favour Akih (Delaware, Ohio) *Ranked by Rivals as a RB, offered as a LB by USC
Four-star Rivals250 ATH Jermaine Bishop Jr. (Willis, Texas)
Four-star Rivals250 LB Simeon Caldwell (Jacksonville, Florida)
Four-star OL Pulelei'ite Primus (Midland, Texas)
Three-star WR Peyton Dyer (Duluth, Georgia)
Three-star DB Joshua Holland (St. John Bosco)

June 13-15

Four-star Rivals100 S Jontavius Wyman (Jonesboro, Georgia)
Four-star Rivals250 EDGE Dre Quinn (Norcross, Georgia)
Four-star OT Esun Tafa (Draper, Utah)
Four-star OT Sam Utu (Orange Lutheran HS)
Four-star WR Kohen Brown (Waxahachie, Texas)
Three-star TE Taimane Purcell (Honolulu, Hawaii)
Three-star ATH Jackson Samuels Ford (Phoenixville Pennsylvania)
Three-star WR Aljour Miles II (Kaufman, Texas)

June 17-19

Five-star Rivals100 ATH Brandon Arrington (Spring Valley, California)
Five-star Rivals100 CB Havon Finney (Sierra Canyon HS)
Four-star Rivals100 LB Talanoa Ili (Orange Lutheran HS)
Four-star Rivals100 TE Mark Bowman (Mater Dei HS)
Four-star LB Talanoa Ili (Orange Lutheran)
Four-star DT Tomuhini Topui (Mater Dei HS)

June 20-22

Four-star Rivals100 CB commit Brandon Lockhart (Loyola HS)
Four-star Rivals100 LB commit Xavier Griffin (Gainesville, Georgia)
Four-star Rivals250 EDGE Nolan Wilson (Picayune, Mississippi)
Four-star Rivals250 LB Cincere Johnson (Cleveland, Ohio)
Four-star Rivals250 WR Messiah Hampton (Rochester, NY)
Four-star DT Kendell Guervil (Fort Myers, Florida) *247 reported, trying to confirm
Four-star CB commit Madden Riordan (Sierra Canyon HS)
Three-star S Nick Reddish (Charlotte, North Carolina)
Three-star DL commit Andrew Williams (Fremont HS)

I got Ryder Lyons one-on-one on video for us. I’ll write up story later after I get back from this Rivals camp, but here’s the video for you all.

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Turn to this game. JuJu is putting on a show. Wow, she is the real deal

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The Good:
- Starting pitching
- CT3, AJ, Fresh Prince, JT the Ginger, Mad Max
- Corey’s return
- 7/29 trade for Madder (German Tank Commander) Max and Trea
- Andrew Friedman, and the best front office in baseball.
- The Joe Kelly adventure
- Joe Davis
- Dingers
- the tweaker looking pitcher (forgot his name)
- Belly’s DEFENSE

The Bad:
- Injuries
- Subpar season for Mookie
- BA w/RISP
- The Joe Kelly adventure
- Middle relief in general
- Kenely’s inconsistent

The Ugly:
- Bauer
- 1 and 12 in extra inning games
- Blown Saves
- CODY BELLINGER AT THE PLATE!!!!!!!!

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This is from Gorney:


Matt has his own interview coming as well.

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Matt Cassel has some big ones...hahaha

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Basketball column for you as USC hopes to hang on to one of the final spots for next week's Big Ten tournament.

He said USC is recruiting him the hardest of any school. He was at junior day last month, will return April 5 for an unofficial and then already knows USC will be getting one of his official visits.


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Rivals250 LB Shaun Scott, from Mater Dei, is visiting USC today. I talked to him ahead of that visit about his connection with the staff and where USC sits in his recruitment.

Lex Mailangi, an OG from Mater Dei, is gonna be a very important 2027 target for USC and was awesome at the Rivals camp last weekend. Sam Spiegelman has a story on his recruitment, and Matt will have more coming as well.


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Dude's bagazz! 13.47 sec/100m


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The ‘27 class is still going to be epic.

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It seems like every day the market is crashing, prices are accelerating, and millions of workers are being laid off. I know I was hoping for a lot of deal activity, but that all feels like it's on pause while we all just try to survive the daily chaos being inflicted on our economy.

Does anyone else wonder whether HOV or other collectives will be able to fund raise in this environment? I think they will all run into trouble if we are headed for a recession or even a depression as we attack our former allies, and they begin to realign themselves away from the U.S. and our currency. Oregon may be good since they have a benefactor who is largely immune from the shifting economy, but I have to imagine less stable programs like HOV may have trouble navigating a world in which America's free markets transition to an isolationist economy without any allies, resulting in recession/depression.

Hard to even know what is happening with tariffs one day, pauses next day, incoherent lies every day, etc., etc. Good luck HOV!

Thoughts?

Here's a video interview I did with Rivals100 CB commit Brandon Lockhart at the Rivals camp Sunday, along with a full story. He's taken a leading role on trying to recruit other top local commits to this class and he names the one he's most confident in adding.

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