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SI.com: Seth Davis: Reviewing Day 2 of the tournament

SI.com caught up with Seth Davis, who's serving as a CBS studio analyst during the tournament, to get his impressions of Friday's first-round action.

SI.com: Arash Markazi: Trojans topple ASU and win first-ever Pac-10 crown

LOS ANGELES -- Sometimes when things aren't going your way all you can do as a coach is raise your hands in the air and ask your players to do things they've never done before.

SI.com: Closer look: USC-Arkansas

SPOKANE, Wash. -- USC has not been kind to Arkansas the last few years. The last two years the football team handed the Razorbacks back-to-back humiliations (combined score 120-31). The Trojans' 77-60 win tonight was more of the same, making the Hogs' unlikely trip to the tournament a short one. While Arkansas had a significant height advantage, they didn't take advantage of it. Taking coach Tim Floyd's keys to the game -- defense and rebounding -- to heart, the Trojans held the Razorbacks, 35 percent 3-point shooters, to 15 percent shooting from the arc. Most significantly, they outrebounded them 39-26, a stat that Floyd admitted surprised him.

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