Team preview: USC

Blue Ribbon Illustrated previews the 2005-06 college basketball season, exclusively on Insider.

Updated: October 25, 2005, 10:04 PM ET
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(Information in this team report is as of October 1.)

COACH AND PROGRAM

There are plenty of similarities between Tim Floyd's current situation as the new USC basketball coach and that of Pete Carroll when he took over the Trojans' football team in December 2000.

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