Basketball: Trojans can’t build on top-10 win, lose at Northwestern

USC was without starting point guard and leading scorer Desmond Claude on Tuesday night at Northwestern, but that actually seemed to have little to do with why the Trojans lost and followed a momentous top-10 win with bad Big Ten road loss. With Claude sitting after taking a hard fall in USC's win over then-No. 7 Michigan State on Saturday (though he played through the injury in that win), the Trojans got everything they could have asked for with Clark Slajchert making his first start of the season and delivering 24 points on 9-of-11 shooting (4-of-4 on 3-pointers).