Fogg's Double-Double Leads Wildcats Past USC

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Kyle Fogg had 16 points and a career-best 12 rebounds, and Arizona overcame a slow start to beat USC 70-54 on Thursday night.

Freshman Josiah Turner added a career-best 15 points and six assists. He scored four in the final 44 seconds of the first half to put the Wildcats ahead for good.

The Wildcats (20-9, 11-5 Pac 12) reached 20 wins for the second year in a row and 33rd time in school history. The last-place Trojans lost their sixth straight to fall to 1-14 in the conference and 6-22 overall.

Byron Wesley led USC with 18 points. Maurice Jones and Garrett Jackson added 10 apiece.

Arizona, winner of six of seven but coming off a loss at Washington, outscored USC 24-6 at the end of the first half and start of the second to erase an early eight-point deficit and go up 40-30 on Solomon Hill's three-point play with 16:07 left.

The Trojans were scoreless for the final 7:56 of the first half while the Wildcats scored 12 in a row.

Arizona trailed 24-16 after James Blasczyk's 16-footer with 7:56 to play before halftime. But the Trojans never scored again in the half.

Fogg started the comeback with a 3-pointer. Nick Johnson hit a 3, then Fogg's 14-footer tied it at 24 with 2:47 left.

Turner scored twice in the final 44 seconds to give Arizona a 28-24 lead at the break. First, he stole Jackson's pass for a breakaway stuff with 44 seconds left, then he made a short bank shot at the buzzer.

The Wildcats outscored USC 6-2 to start the second half to lead 35-26 after Johnson's driving layup. Johnson's second 3-pointer of the game made it 45-32 with 13:17 left.

After Angelo Chol's two free throws put Arizona up 54-38 with 10:13 left, the Trojans got consecutive 3s from Greg Allen and Jones to cut it to 54-44 with 8:07 to go. Jones' inside basket cut the lead to 54-46 6:36 from the finish. But Turner made one of two free throws, then Hill's 3-pointer made it 58-46 and USC never got it to single digits again.

Jackson scored all 10 of his points in the first half and wound up with 3 of 13 shooting. Jones was 4 of 14. The Wildcats had seven turnovers in the first half and three in the second.

The Trojans entered the game last in the Pac-12 in shooting percent (39 percent) as well as in scoring (53.4 points per game), 3-point percentage (28 percent) and free-throw percentage (61 percent). Their 59.5 points allowed per game, though, led the conference.

The Wildcats were without seldom-used center Kyryl Natyazhko, who was suspended for the game for violating team rules. Arizona plays its final home game of the season on Saturday against UCLA.