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Salt Lake City, UT (SportsNetwork. Ante Zizic Jersey .com) - Pac-12 Conference action gets underway for a pair of teams on Friday night, as the USC Trojans pay a visit to the 10th-ranked Utah Utes. USC has won twice as many games as it has lost to this point in the campaign, logging an 8-4 mark. The Trojans were 64-56 winners at home versus Vermont in their most recent bout, and theyve won two in a row since losing in overtime to Army (85-77) on Dec. 13. USC is 2-0 in true road games, and 3-2 away from home overall when you factor in its 1-2 record in neutral-site affairs. Utah has claimed victory in its last three games, the most recent of which being an 85-49 shellacking of visiting Carroll College (MT) on Tuesday. The only two losses for the team have come against ranked foes in San Diego State (53-49) and Kansas (63-60). The Utes are 8-0 at home this season, and outscoring visitors by a whopping 85-58, while shooting 56 percent from the field and enjoying a +11.6 rebounding margin. The series between these two teams is knotted at 17-17, but Utah has won three the last three meetings after sweeping the series last year and defeating USC in the 2013 Pac-12 Tournament. Strahinja Gavrilovic scored 15 points, Nikola Jovanovic finished with 12 points and 10 rebounds, and Katin Reinhardt chipped in 11 points for the Trojans in their recent win over Vermont. USC, which has won six of its last seven games as it stares down tonights league lid lifter, shot just 41.1 percent from the floor, missing all but one of its seven 3-point tries along the way, but held the Catamounts to 30.2 percent field goal efficiency, which included a woeful 5-of-23 showing out on the perimeter. Despite its favorable record, USC has been lackluster at best on offense this season, netting 68.2 ppg behind typical shooting efforts of .424 overall, .317 beyond the arc, and .620 at the free-throw line. The Trojans have performed better at the defensive end, yielding just 66.1 ppg, with foes connecting on only 38.9 percent of their total shots, which includes a 29.3 percent effort from long distance. Jordan McLaughlin (13.3 ppg, 5.2 apg) leads the team in both scoring and assists, while Jovanovic and Reinhardt turn in 11.8 and 10.8 ppg, respectively, the former also spearheading the clubs rebounding effort with 8.6 rpg. Carroll College didnt stand much of a chance in its recent attempt at upsetting Utah, as the Fighting Saints shot just 38.8 percent from the floor, which actually included a 6-of-15 performance from 3-point range (.400). They committed 17 turnovers and were beaten badly on the boards (38-15), all while allowing the Utes to drain a sizzling 64.7 percent of their field goal attempts, which included half of their 16 3-point tries. Jordan Loveridge, who had been battling a gimpy knee, made his first appearance since late November and scored a game-high 14 points, knocking down 3-of-4 long-range launches, while Brekkot Chapman tacked on 11 points and Chris Reyes 10 more for Utah in the winning effort. Delon Wright, who had seven helpers in the win over Carroll, has been the Utes most productive player this season, as he averages 15.8 points and 5.3 assists per game. Loveridge has appeared in only five games, but is netting 12 ppg thank to his 11-of-20 effort from 3-point land, and Jakob Poeltl rounds out the double-digit scorers for Utah, which generates 76.1 ppg while permitting only 56.9 ppg -- the latter ranking the team among the best in the nation. The Utes are outshooting the opposition (.506 to .366), while also laying claim to a sizable +9.0 rebounding margin. Kevin Love Jersey . The Rays hope to stay alive for the postseason and salvage the finale of this series Sunday at Rogers Centre, where they dropped a 7-2 decision Saturday. Chris Archer lasted 2 1/3 innings in the no-decision, charged with a run and five hits, and Alex Torres suffered the loss in relief. Dylan Windler Cavaliers Jersey . -- Jack Del Rio only wanted to talk about the Cowboys, not the Trojans.RIO DE JANEIRO - The beaches and glamour of Rio de Janeiro havent yet convinced LeBron James that he should come back in two years for a shot at a third Olympic gold medal.James has spent several days in Rio preparing for Saturdays NBA preseason game against his former Miami Heat teammates, but reiterated on Friday that its too early to make a decision about the Olympics.Im undecided, James said at the club facilities of Flamengo, Brazils most popular soccer team, where both teams are practicing. Its not until 2016. I got two years. I got a long time.James and two other Cavalier teammates — Kevin Love and Kyrie Irving — have been picked in a national pool that will be used to select the 2016 mens team for the United States, which has won gold at the last two Olympics and in five of the last six.Irving, who said he will sit out Saturdays game with a sprained right ankle, would be playing in his first Olympics if picked.Obviously to be in the pool of guys is a great honour, he said.Love left no doubt he wants to play again, after winning gold two years ago in London.Playing for my country has done a lot of things for my career, he said. It has afforded me a great opportunity to get better. Wearing the USA across the chest was a great way to feel patriotic. I hope that I have another chance in 2016 to be here.Heat duo Chris Bosh and Dwayne Wade won gold in 2008, but are out of the pool and said its time for others to take over.Ive done it and I want other guys to experience it, Bosh said. Trying to chase that experience I had in 08 — Im not going to be able to ffulfil that. Shaquille ONeal Cavaliers Jersey. I was a younger guy and I was single and I had a lot more time.Wade made it clear that training and playing with the Olympic team after a full NBA season is a young mans job.I did my time, he said. Obviously its the younger guys time to have the opportunity to win that gold medal.Luol Deng, who joined the Heat this summer as a free agent after 10 seasons with the Chicago Bulls, played with Britain at the 2012 Olympics when the team qualified automatically as host.He is unlikely to get that chance again. Britain has cut funding for Olympic basketball, and the team failed to qualify for this years recent world championship in Spain.Britain funds its sports from the national lottery, and it cut basketball money because it has not produced medals.I think its really stupid, Deng said. Im not knocking any other sports. Basketball has come a long way, but the way it was looked at was: did they get any medals? No.While the NBA is constantly getting more and more international, playing abroad can still lead to misunderstandings.Players have been warned that a gesture sometimes used after a made 3-pointer may offend Brazilians. It involves players making a circle around their eyes and lifting the other three fingers.We dont want to offend anybody, Bosh said. I think its a good recommendation, but its only a recommendation. So its on the players to do it. I dont like 3-point celebrations because its just one shot. If youve got to celebrate every time, its a long season.___Stephen Wade on Twitter: http://twitter.com/StephenWadeAP ' ' '