USC’s Boogie Ellis drains career-high 8 3-pointers in rout of Eastern Washington

LOS ANGELES — In a different life, Boogie Ellis wouldn’t be here, still.

The consensus, after a year in which he’d already chosen to come back to USC, seemed that he would declare for a draft stage come the summer, even without many first-round projectables. Perhaps he’d snag a spot on an NBA bench as a second-rounder, or fill it up in the G-League; but in any case, his days at the Galen Center seemed through.

But the league, he felt, would always be there. He still had a year of eligibility to “fine-tune” his game...