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Rebuilding not on Trojans’ agenda


Several words come to mind when looking back on top-ranked USC’s exit as a semifinalist from the NCAA men’s volleyball tournament last May: Premature, unsatisfying, disappointing. Ask anyone related to the team and they’d say even these words remain a severe understatement. Losing to a fourth-seeded, 14-loss UC Santa Barbara team was not the ending […]

Ferguson making a name for himself


It’s not easy being a head coach at USC. If you win, it’s expected of you. If you don’t, people start wondering why. And if you find yourself somewhere in the middle, you sort of get lost in the shuffle. Strangely, Bill Ferguson, the USC men’s volleyball coach, has found himself lost in the shuffle. […]

Rising Trojans host cross-country foe Friday


The USC men’s volleyball team faces both a cross-country foe and a familiar conference opponent this weekend on back-to-back nights. USC (11-4, 9-4 in Mountain Pacific Sports Federation play) will host No. 6 Penn State (13-1, 6-0) Friday, and travel to Malibu Saturday to take on No. 10 Pepperdine (8-8, 6-7). Though the team is […]