USC earns third straight win over UCLA, 95-71, in Pac-12 tournament

Officially, the game, UCLA's season and probably USC's stint in NCAA tournament purgatory, ended at 8:08 p.m. Wednesday.

Effectively, it was over before halftime, in USC's 95-71 victory in the first round of the Pac-12 Conference tournament. If ever one sequence captured two widely divergent seasons,...