In just a few hours USC will play the Virginia Commonwealth Rams (23-11) in Dayton, Ohio on truTV. Check your local listings for the channel if you don’t know what truTV is. Tip-off is at 6 pm PST.

VCU’s coach is Shaka Smart. This is his second season as head coach and he only 33 years old. Keep an eye out for power forward Jaime Skeen. He is the team leader in scoring and rebounds with 15.3 ppg and 7.5 rpg. The Rams rotate 10 players and like to bomb threes. They are going to want to run while SC will want to slow down the tempo.

The best analysis and prediction I have read about this matchup is from the one and only Snoop Dogg. Snoop is picking SC:

March Madness is about to get craccin’ and tha Boss Dogg is lettin’ ya know who’s #winning. If ya think ya got me beat on these teams, enter my Tournament Challenge and let me see what ya got!

My boys at USC ’bout to smacc down on VCU, but they got a tough one when they face my dogs, tha Hoyas, in da next round.

This SC vs. G-Town game is gonna be a good one … nudoknowthat! Tha Hoyas get Chris Wright back, but tha rest of tha team needs to step their game up since SC is goin’ hard. G-Town gonna be all rested up, and I know they ready to come back from that loss in tha Big East. I rep tha West, but I gotta go with the Hoyas on this one.

You can enter Snoop’s tournament challenge on ESPN by clicking here.

Good Luck Trojans and Fight On!

Let’s get the madness craccin’ [espn]