One advantage of a USC home basketball game not being televised by ESPN or FSN: They can open the Galen Center shades.

They did so tonight for the game with UC Riverside, and the view of downtown Los Angeles at sunset was pretty striking even with the reflection of the four-sided scoreboard against the glass.

The TV networks don’t like the shades open because of the glare (in the daytime) and, presumably, because of that reflection from the scoreboard (at night). But this game is only being seen by webcast on the school’s “Trojans All-Access TV” site, which presumably has no problem with it.