Three key questions for USC men’s basketball in Eric Musselman’s first year

LOS ANGELES — High up in the main-concourse seating of the Galen Center Oct. 15, a man named Jim Yee sat perched alone in a black cushion one of the smattering of USC faithful present this evening who wasn’t a family member of those on the floor.

Since “Lew Alcindor was playing for UCLA,” as Yee put it, he and family had been loyal supporters of USC men’s basketball. They had season tickets in a couple rows in the lower basin, had seen coaches come and go, had seen success rise and fall.