Dangerous play
Lod got a loose ball while losing his balance near the sideline and threw it off Cal's Ayinde Ubaka, who was lying on the ground. The ball hit Ubaka high, either in the shoulder or the face, and went out of bounds. It looked like Lod could have gotten the ball to a teammate instead of going off Ubaka, but there were not malicious intentions on Lod's part.
Matthew Kredell broke into the Daily News in 1998, working part time
at the paper while going to USC. The basketball team’s Elite Eight
run in 2000-01 was USC’s athletic highlight in his time at the
school, when the football team was stuck in the Paul Hackett-era.
After graduating in 2001, he started writing for the Daily News full
time. He’s in his second year covering USC, which coincides with the
rise of the program. He’ll take credit for the success, though Tim
Floyd may have more to do with it. A third-generation Los Angelean,
he grew up reading the Daily News while at El Camino Real High School
in Woodland Hills.