Class of 2007

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Roster

Schedule

Rankings reflect the

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Regular season

Pacific-10 tournament

In the

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, the Trojans lost to

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, featuring

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, 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

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and freshman

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. *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

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

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attended USC and

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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,

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, 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.Infractions process Q&A
''NCAA.org'', January 5, 2010

References

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