Toreros start 2020-21 season looking for boost from newcomers [The San Diego Union-Tribune]
Wanting to erase the foul taste of a 9-23 season, USD men’s basketball coach Sam Scholl hit the transfer market, bringing in five Division I players. Normally those athletes would arrive on campus in late June and meld with returning players for eight weeks of summer practice, not to mention hours in open gym workouts.
All that was erased by COVID-19 restrictions, the transfers not arriving for another two months.
In August, the Toreros’ leading scorer, Braun Hartfield, informed coaches he would not be back for his redshirt senior season. Then on Nov. 20, five days before USD was scheduled to open the 2020-21 season, the Toreros halted men’s basketball for 14 days when an unidentified player tested positive for the virus.