Here’s a 1954 photo of USC players Roy Irvin, Al Ludecke and Walter Thompson leaving the Hotel Continental in Kansas City before a Final Four game against Penn State. The Trojans made the Final Four that season, losing to Bradley, 74-72 in a semifinal game. They lost to Penn State, 70-61, in the third-place game.
OR hasn’t been to the final four since the inauguration game the NCAA launched in 1939. That’s almost eight decades.
Or for the math orientated, 63 years ago.
The year the ruins won their only football national title.
I remember it like it was yesterday…