DeMar DeRozan News

Dwight Lewis is the only returning Trojan who averaged more than seven points. Three players departed for professional basketball with years of eligibility unspent.

Watching from his California home, he said he knew he was still a part of that team - in spirit, at least.

Amid an ongoing NCAA investigation, player departures to the NBA and academic eligibility issues, the USC men's basketball program appears to be in transition.

DeMar DeRozan from the University of Southern California sits for a television interview after being selected by the Toronto Raptors as the ninth overall pick in the 2009 NBA Draft in New York, June 25, 2009.

Raps rookie has ties to Kobe Jarrett Jack, left, and DeMar DeRozan share a laugh following practice at Toronto Raptors training camp in Ottawa on Wednesday.

Power forward Leonard Washington is academically ineligible for the first semester, USC basketball Coach Kevin O'Neill confirmed, robbing the Trojans of another player from last season's NCAA tournament team.

Catching up with onetime UA basketball coach Kevin O'Neill. Age : 52. Then : O'Neill coached the University of Arizona men's basketball team during the 2007-08 season.

Long road ahead A Coach Kevin Oa Neill recognizes that the loss of recruits has shaken up the roster.

Jury selection is beginning in the case of a man accused of killing his father and firing shots at a North Carolina high school.

The Toronto Raptors have signed forward DeMar DeRozan, the No. 9 pick in the draft.

When professional sports leagues hold their annual draft I am as interested as I am bored.

According to league sources at least five NBA teams inquired about Parker in the lead-up to Thursday night's draft, where Toronto took DeRozan ninth overall out of the University of Southern California.

Two USC players were selected in the first round of the same draft for the first time in the program's history Thursday.

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The first thing you thought when DeMar DeRozan walked through the door as a Toronto Raptor was this: "Hey, that's not Vince Carter." The second thing you thought, as DeRozan spread his expansive hands out in front of him as if warming them by the fire, was "Hey, that's not Rafael Araujo, either." No, the newest Toronto Raptor is his own young man, ...

Does Toronto have a star in their hands? It's way too soon to guess, but I would lean to "no." I've been following DeMar DeRozan for awhile now, and not because I thought, "hey, this guy looks ... by Sang Nguyen 2 272 reads Opinion Does Toronto have a star in their hands? It's way too soon to guess, but I would lean to "no." I've been following ...

If you want to play for a national title, go to North Carolina. That's a good way to get a championship.

Despite being a born and raised in sunny southern California, DeMar DeRozan shrugs off any suggestion that he's unprepared for life north of the border.

9; Gibson taken by Chicago. USC forward DeMar DeRozan could not complain Thursday night after the Toronto Raptors selected him ninth overall in the NBA draft.

DeMar DeRozan, left, was drafted ninth overall by Toronto. The Toronto Raptors opted for potential Thursday night, picking University of Southern California swingman DeMar DeRozan ninth overall in the NBA draft.