USC Travels to Mexico, Battles Caballeros, Tarantulas

The USC Trojans men’s basketball team traveled to the Pacific Coast of Mexico to a city called Mazatlan to play two exhibition games over the Labor Day weekend. You can get a good video of some of the highlights of the trip if you go to ESPN and look at Andy Katz’s article on the subject. The Trojans never ended up playing two games. The Mexican college team they were set to play never ended up showing.

Many teams take foreign trips to play exhibition games during the summer, as the rules of the NCAA allow for teams to play outside of the United States, using rookies, so long as the trips do not interfere with class time and a few other things. The trip seems to have been more of a team-building exercise than anything else, as many of the tribulations of traveling to Mexico were more noteworthy than their one game against a Mexican professional team, the Caballeros. They got freaked out by large insects, worried about robbery and the language barrier, and probably have a common experience to fall back on later in the year when things get tough. All in all, a successful trip.

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