Alex Stepheson, the 6-foot-9 graduate of Harvard-Westlake who played as a reserve for two seasons for the University of North Carolina basketball program, said Monday that he plans to enroll at USC next week.
Stepheson, a member of the Press-Telegram's 2005-06 Best in the West team, also considered transferring to Arizona State, Cal and UCLA before deciding to play his final two seasons of eligibility with the Trojans.
Scott Wolf of the Daily News originally wrote a blog entry last month that Stepheson would end up at USC, the alma mater of the player's mother and sister.
Stepheson is expected to be eligible for the Trojans for the 2009-10 season, unless the NCAA grants him a waiver of its rule that forces football and basketball players to spend an academic year in residence at their new school before becoming regaining eligibility for competition for an NCAA Division I program.
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