Home games against Vanderbilt and NCAA Sweet 16 team Nevada, neutral site games against NCAA Tournament teams TCU and Oklahoma and the always challenging Pac-12 gauntlet of games highlight the 2018-19 USC men's basketball schedule announced today (July 16).  The exact date of the Pac-12 Conference games and the times and television assignments should be completed by the beginning of September.

De'Anthony Melton was selected by the Houston Rockets with the 46th pick and Chimezie Metu by the San Antonio Spurs with the 49th pick in the 2018 NBA Draft held at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., today (June 21).  The last time USC had two players selected in the same NBA Draft was in 2009 when DeMar DeRozan went ninth overall to Toronto and Taj Gibson went 26th to Chicago.

USC point guard Jordan McLaughlin is one of 24 student-athletes selected to receive a 2018 Pac-12 Postgraduate Scholarship, given to athletes who excelled academically and demonstrated a commitment to education, campus and community involvement, leadership and exhausted their intercollegiate eligibility.  McLaughlin earned his undergraduate degree in Sociology and is working on a masters in Communications Management.