# 2007–08 USC Trojans men's basketball team
## Class of 2007

US college sports recruiting information for high school athletes :
| Name | Hometown | High school / college | Height | Weight | Commit date |
| Mamadou Diarra C | Tarzana, CA | Stoneridge Preparatory School | 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m) | 215 lb (98 kg) | Mar 30, 2007 |
| Recruiting star ratings: Scout: Rivals: 247Sports: N/A ESPN grade: 79 ||||||
| Davon Jefferson SF | Patterson, NC | Patterson School | 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m) | 190 lb (86 kg) | Feb 22, 2006 |
| Recruiting star ratings: Scout: Rivals: 247Sports: N/A ESPN grade: 40 ||||||
| Angelo Johnson PG | Tarzana, CA | Stoneridge Preparatory School | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) | 170 lb (77 kg) | Apr 13, 2007 |
| Recruiting star ratings: Scout: Rivals: 247Sports: N/A ESPN grade: 80 ||||||
| O. J. Mayo PG | Huntington, WV | Huntington HS | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) | 190 lb (86 kg) | Nov 15, 2006 |
| Recruiting star ratings: Scout: Rivals: 247Sports: N/A ESPN grade: 98 ||||||
| Marcus Simmons SG | Alexandria, LA | Peabody Magnet HS | 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) | 200 lb (91 kg) | Nov 15, 2006 |
| Recruiting star ratings: Scout: Rivals: 247Sports: N/A ESPN grade: 93 ||||||
| Overall Recruiting Rankings: Scout – 13 Rivals – 2 ESPN – ||||||

## Roster

| Number | Name | Height | Position | Class |
| 0 | Kyle Austin | 6–7 | F | SO |
| 33 | RouSean Cromwell | 6–11 | F | JR |
| 43 | Kasey Cunningham | 6–7 | F | FR |
| 14 | Mamadou Diarra | 7-0 | F | FR |
| 3 | James Dunleavy | 6–6 | G | FR |
| 22 | Taj Gibson | 6–9 | F | SO |
| 30 | Terence Green | 5-11 | G | JR |
| 13 | Daniel Hackett | 6–5 | G | SO |
| 5 | Davon Jefferson | 6–8 | F | FR |
| 1 | Angelo Johnson | 5-11 | F | FR |
| 21 | Dwight Lewis | 6–5 | G | SO |
| 32 | O. J. Mayo | 6–5 | G | FR |
| 20 | Marcus Simmons | 6–6 | G | FR |
| 2 | Ryan Wetherell | 5–11 | G | SO |
| 23 | Keith Wilkinson | 6–10 | F | JR |

### Schedule

| Date | Location | Opponent | rank | Result | Score | Record | Pac-10 Record |
| 11/10/2007 (Trojan TV All-Access) | Galen Center – Los Angeles, CA | Mercer | 18 | L | 81-96 | 0-1 | |
| 11/15/2007 | McAlister Field House – Charleston, SC | The Citadel | | W | 74-47 | 1-1 | |
| 11/17/2007 | Colonial Center – Columbia, SC | South Carolina | | W | 85-75 | 2–1 | |
| 11/22/2007 (ESPN2) | Anaheim Convention Center – Anaheim, CA - Anaheim Classic | San Diego | | W | 60-50 | 3-1 | |
| 11/23/2007 (ESPNU) | Anaheim Convention Center – Anaheim, CA – Anaheim Classic | Miami (OH) | | W | 57-53 | 4-1 | |
| 11/25/2007 (ESPN2) | Anaheim Convention Center – Anaheim, CA - Anaheim Classic | #18 Southern Illinois | | W | 70-45 | 5-1 | |
| 11/29/2007 (FSN) | Galen Center – Los Angeles, CA - Big 12/Pac-10 Hardwood Series | Oklahoma | 24 | W | 66-55 | 6-1 | |
| 12/02/2007 (FSN) | Galen Center – Los Angeles, CA | #4 Kansas | 24 | L | 55-59 | 6-2 | |
| 12/04/2007 (ESPN) | Madison Square Garden – New York, NY | #2 Memphis (Jimmy V Classic) | | L | 58-62 | 6-3 | |
| 12/17/2007 (Trojan TV All-Access) | Galen Center – Los Angeles, CA | Delaware State | | W | 83-54 | 7-3 | |
| 12/22/2007 (Trojan TV All-Access) | Galen Center – Los Angeles, CA | Cal Poly | | W | 78-55 | 8-3 | |
| 12/29/2007 (Trojan TV All-Access) | Galen Center – Los Angeles, CA | UC Riverside | | W | 70-57 | 9-3 | |
| 1/3/2008 | Haas Pavilion – Berkeley, CA | California | | L | 82-92 | 9–4 | 0–1 |
| 1/5/2008 (FSNPT) | Maples Pavilion – Palo Alto, CA | #20 Stanford | | L | 46-52 | 9-5 | 0-2 |
| 1/10/2008 (FSN) | Galen Center – Los Angeles, CA | #4 Washington State | | L | 58-73 | 9-6 | 0-3 |
| 1/12/2008 (FSNPT) | Galen Cener – Los Angeles, CA | Washington | | W | 66-51 | 10-6 | 1-3 |
| 1/19/2008 (CBS) | Pauley Pavilion – Los Angeles, CA | #4 UCLA | | W | 72-63 | 11–6 | 2–3 |
| 1/24/2008 (FSN West) | Gill Coliseum – Corvallis, OR | Oregon State | | W | 68-44 | 12-6 | 3–3 |
| 1/26/2008 (FSN) | McArthur Court – Eugene, OR | Oregon | | W | 95-86 | 13-6 | 4–3 |
| 1/31/2008 (FSN) | Galen Center – Los Angeles, CA | Arizona | | L | 69-80 | 13-7 | 4-4 |
| 2/2/2008 (FSNPT) | Galen Center – Los Angeles, CA | Arizona State | | W | 67-53 | 14-7 | 5-4 |
| 2/7/2008 (FSNPT) | Bank of America Arena – Seattle, WA | Washington | | W | 73-59 | 15-7 | 6–4 |
| 2/9/2008 (ABC) | Friel Court – Pullman, WA | #17 Washington State | | L | 50-74 | 15-8 | 6–5 |
| 2/17/2008 (FSN) | Galen Center – Los Angeles, CA | #6 UCLA | | L | 46-56 | 15–9 | 6–6 |
| 2/21/2008 (FSN) | Galen Center – Los Angeles, CA | Oregon | | W | 81-75 | 16-9 | 7-6 |
| 2/23/2008 (FSN West) | Galen Center – Los Angeles, CA | Oregon State | | W | 81-53 | 17-9 | 8-6 |
| 2/28/2008 (ESPN) | McKale Center – Tucson, AZ | Arizona | | W | 70-58 | 18-9 | 9-6 |
| 3/1/2008 (FSNPT) | Wells Fargo Arena – Tempe, AZ | Arizona State | | L | 66-80 | 18-10 | 9-7 |
| 3/6/2008 | Galen Center – Los Angeles, CA | California | | W | 93-89 OT | 19-10 | 10-7 |
| 3/8/2008 (CBS) | Galen Center – Los Angeles, CA | Stanford | | W | 77-64 | 20-10 | 11-7 |
| 3/13/2008 (FSN) | Staples Center – Los Angeles, CA - 2008 Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball tournament | Arizona State | | W | 59-55 | 21-10 | |
| 3/14/2008 (FSN) | Staples Center – Los Angeles, CA - 2008 Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball tournament | #2 UCLA | | L | 54-57 | 21-11 | |
| 3/20/2008 (CBS) | Qwest Center Omaha – Omaha, NE - NCAA tournament | Kansas State | | L | 67-80 | 21-12 | |
Rankings reflect the USA Today Coaches Poll.

## Regular season
### Pacific-10 tournament

In the 2008 Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball tournament, the Trojans lost to UCLA, featuring Kevin Love, in the semi-finals. Both Mayo and Love were selected to the All-Pac-10 tournament team. In his NCAA tournament debut with the Trojans, Mayo scored 20 points as USC was beaten by Kansas State and freshman Michael Beasley.
* Quarterfinals (March 13)
** UCLA 88, California 66
* Semifinals (March 14)
** UCLA 57, USC 54

## NCAA tournament

Seeding in brackets
* Midwest
** Kansas State (11) 80, Southern California (6) 67

## Awards and honors

* O. J. Mayo, All-Pac-10 tournament team

## Team players drafted into the NBA

| Round | Pick | Player | NBA Club |
| 1 | 3 | O. J. Mayo | Minnesota Timberwolves |

## Punishment for NCAA rules violations

On January 3, 2010, USC announced it would punish the Men's Basketball Program for rules violations committed in the 2007–2008 season, when O. J. Mayo attended USC and Tim Floyd was still the head coach. Mayo received improper benefits in violation of NCAA rules while at USC, and Floyd was found to have assisted in the obtainment of these improper benefits. USC has declared Mayo was therefore ineligible to play in 2007–2008, and as a result, USC has vacated all wins from the 2007–2008 regular season, dropping their record to 1–32. The one win would be over Arizona State during the Pac-10 Conference tournament, as USC has only announced the vacation of all wins from the 2007–2008 regular season.*
Since the initial announcement reported by ESPN, USC clarified that all wins during the 2007–2008 season, including any wins during the Pac-10 Conference tournament, would be vacated and not forfeited, meaning USC's record for 2007–2008 is 0–12, not 1–32 as previously reported. Vacated wins result in no win/loss application for the team vacating the win, unlike a forfeit, in which the forfeiting team is charged with a loss, and its opponent awarded a victory.
Noel M. Ragsdale, law professor, University of Southern California, is the chair of the five-member Division I Infractions Appeals Committee, which hears and acts on the findings of major violations by the Division I Committee on Infractions.