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Coming out of Santa Ana (Calif.) Mater Dei High in 2005, Mike Gerrity had a vision for how his college career would play out.

He would sign with a school close to home and start for four years, culminating in a senior season in which he played a starring role on an NCAA Tournament team.

Five years and three teams later, Gerrity, a senior point guard for USC, admits: "It really didn't work out the way I planned."

There remains the possibility of a storybook finish, however, which is remarkable given Gerrity's tumultuous career and how the Trojans started the season.

USC opened 2-4, including an embarrassing home defeat to Loyola Marymount and blowout losses to Texas (by 19) and Georgia Tech (26). With coach Kevin O'Neill in his first season and the roster thinned by early exits and the defection of several recruits, a rebuilding year was expected. Still, few could have predicted the Trojans would look so overmatched.

Gerrity watched those first few games from the bench, sitting out per NCAA rules after transferring from Charlotte. "We knew we were better than we had showed but I'm not sure anyone else knew that," Gerrity says. "We just needed to get more pieces of the puzzle together."

Gerrity was the biggest of those pieces, which was apparent when he made his USC debut Dec. 19 against Tennessee, which was ranked ninth at the time. He scored 12 points and had 10 assists in a 77-55 upset, after which Volunteers coach Bruce Pearl, stating the obvious, said USC was "a different team" with Gerrity.

Read the rest at: SI.com

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