The Trojans appeared poised for a made-for-TV push to face off against Arkansas in a play-in game for the right to be considered the 11 seed in the Midwest. Instead, travel has railroaded Musselman's first-year efforts, leaving his program gasping for enough juice to possibly squeeze out an NIT appearance.

JuJu Watkins scored 30 points and No. 4 Southern California defeated second-ranked UCLA 80-67 on Saturday night to clinch the program's first Big Ten regular-season title in its league debut.

USC basketball coach Eric Musselman is the latest leader at a former PAC-12 program to complain about travel in the Big Ten. He spoke on the disadvantages