Preview the 2024-25 College Basketball Futures betting landscape for USC, including a look at its odds to win the National Championship.

One storyline to follow with UCLA is the emergence of 7-foot-3 Spaniard Aday Mara. The behemoth is coming off his two best games in a Bruins uniform, collecting 22 points without missing a shot against Wisconsin and then playing a career-high 30 minutes against Washington and notching 12 points, seven rebounds, and five blocks.

USC men’s basketball delivered back-to-back Big Ten victories this past week. After upsetting No. 13 Illinois on the road Saturday, the Trojans took down Iowa at home Tuesday night. The fun ended on Saturday in a loss to Wisconsin,

Wisconsin and USC are set to tip-off at 3 p.m. ET, 2 p.m. CT on the Big Ten Network. The Badgers are in search of their seventh consecutive victory and fifth-straight in conference play. They may need their top form in order to achieve that result.

The Trojans visit the Cornhuskers as we continue our college basketball odds series with a USC-Nebraska prediction and pick.

Wisconsin Badgers head coach Greg Gard reacts to a play Saturday, Dec. 14, 2024, during the NCAA men’s basketball game against the Butler Bulldogs at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. Alex Martin/Journal and Courier-USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images

but the Trojans lost to the Hoosiers by 13. USC picked up a resume booster when they defeated No. 13 Illinois on the road on Jan. 11. It gave the Trojans their first and currently only Quad 1 win ...

The latest example came Saturday at the Galen Center in Los Angeles where the Badgers scored an 84-69 victory over USC. The challenge? Hold off a second half surge from a Trojans squad that scored wins at then-No. 13 Illinois and at home over Iowa in the ...

Freshman Avery Howell scored a season-high 18 points, JuJu Watkins added 16 points as No. 4 USC easily defeated Purdue.

The Bruins’ winning streak is at four games with reason for additional optimism after a hard-fought 82-76 victory at the Galen Center, while Trojans coach Eric Musselman’s quickly assembled roster

Nebraska has lost four straight. They lost Sunday by three at Maryland, 69-66. USC was waxed in its last game losing 84-69 Saturday against Wisconsin. USC averages 77 points per game while the Nebraska averages 76.6. Each of these teams is 6-4 in their last 10 games.

Indiana outrebounded USC 13-9, gave up 7 fastbreak points and did not allow the Trojans to get to the free-throw line. The Hoosiers pulled within 1 point of the Trojans at the end of the third quarter, putting them in position to make a run in the fourth quarter.