USC gets the pub; Boston College gets the shun

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Tyrese Rice, Boston College’s lickity-split point guard, doesn’t have an inferiority complex or a chip on his shoulder, but he is certain of one thing.

‘I got used to playing and being the fifth- or sixth-tier team in Boston,’ Rice said. ‘I pretty much got used to it.’

Still, he said, there are benefits.

‘Flying under the radar, we try to use it to our advantage,’ Rice said. ‘When we come out, we play schools like the [North] Carolinas and Dukes, who have 20-30,000 people that always follow them. So, flying under the radar is what makes us who we are.’

Not so out west with USC, even with UCLA basketball across town.

‘We’re in L.A.,’ guard Daniel Hackett said. ‘It’s Los Angeles, man. ... It’s a media city. I don’t know how Boston is.’

-- Chris Foster