SEATTLE — The USC men’s basketball team continued its late-season fade with a 19-point loss to Washington on Wednesday night.
Zoom Diallo scored a career-high 26 points, Hannes Steinbach added 22 with a career-best 24 rebounds, and Washington rolled past USC, 91-72, handing the Trojans their sixth consecutive loss and the 11th in their past 17 games.
Washington took the lead for good with 12:31 remaining. A 13-0 run that started with 4:33 to play pushed the Huskies’ lead to 85-65 with about two minutes left. Diallo scored on a dunk and Nikola Dzepina added a 3-pointer to end the surge.
The Huskies (15-15 overall, 7-12 Big Ten) swept the season series against USC, and have won three of their past five games.
Alijah Arenas had 19 points and seven rebounds and Ezra Ausar finished with 17 points and 11 rebounds for USC (18-12, 7-12), which was playing its first game since leading scorer Chad Baker-Mazara was dismissed from the program on Sunday. Jacob Cofie and Jordan Marsh added 14 points apiece.
Diallo shot 11 for 19 overall and grabbed nine rebounds. His previous career high was 24 points against Utah on Dec. 29. Steinbach surpassed his 16-rebound game against Utah on Feb. 24. He shot 9 for 12 from the field against the Trojans.
Quimari Peterson added 13 points, while former Trojan Wesley Yates III scored 11 for the Huskies, who outscored the Trojans by 21 points over the final 13-plus minutes.
Washington shot 48.1% from the field overall but just 7 for 30 from 3-point range. The Huskies held a 46-37 rebounding edge.
“I thought the zone was good from a 3-point percentage to deal with Washington,” USC coach Eric Musselman said. “They went 7 for 30. I thought the zone forced them to take more threes than they usually do.”
The Trojans shot just 37.5% overall and 4 for 19 from behind the arc.
The Huskies led for only 48 seconds in the first half, but a 3-pointer by Peterson and a driving layup by Yates tied the score at 52-all with 13:18 left in the second.
The Trojans went back ahead on a basket by Arenas seven seconds later before Washington began its crushing run.
It began with 10 consecutive points. Diallo scored the next six and Yates drove for a layup. Diallo then hit a jumper to give the Huskies an eight-point lead with 9:35 to play.
USC cut that deficit in half before Steinbach converted a three-point play to give Washington a 67-60 lead with 7:21 left.
A short time later, Peterson buried a corner 3-pointer and Steinbach followed his own miss to push the lead to 11 with 6:07 remaining.
The Trojans were later within seven before Washington’s Courtland Muldrew converted two three-point plays during a 13-0 burst. The Huskies increased their lead to 17 on Diallo’s dunk with 2:54 left and Nikola Dzepina added a 3-pointer 38 seconds later to make it 85-65.
USC will close its regular season on Saturday night with a home game against UCLA before preparing for next week’s Big Ten Tournament.
“We have to put 40 minutes together,” Musselman said. “We can’t play 20 minutes or 24 minutes, and certainly the second half was not anything we needed from a scoring standpoint or defensively.”
NOTES
Arenas scored 13 points in the first half as the Trojans held a 43-40 lead at the break. … Steinbach set a Big Ten freshman record with 19 double-doubles, surpassing the mark set by former Ohio State standout Jared Sullinger (2010-11). Steinbach reached the milestone double-double record with 15 points and 13 rebounds in the first half.
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USC hosts UCLA in a regular-season finale on Saturday at 6 p.m.
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