Glenn’s Three-Point Shooting Leads USC : College basketball: Guard scores 26 points in Trojans’ 98-58 rout of South Carolina State.

A weekend in Hawaii apparently left South Carolina State weary and unprepared to play a quick, young USC basketball team.

As they often do at the Sports Arena, the Trojans turned a batch of three-point shots into a 98-58 victory Monday night before a sparse pre-holiday crowd.

With the student body on Christmas vacation, only 2,136 fans showed up to watch the Trojans win their 12th game in a row at home and their 21st in the last 22.

The Bulldogs, who won their first three games before being trounced twice in the tournament in Hawaii, made a game of it for just the first five minutes.

Then Phil Glenn, one of several three-point bombers, took charge. The visitors had a 6-5 lead when Glenn went to work. In less than three minutes, the senior guard outscored the Bulldogs, 11-2, sinking three consecutive three-pointers and a short jumper. With an eight-point deficit, the Bulldogs were already looking weary.

They had become a team that didn’t seem to understand the three-point basket. They couldn’t defend against it, and even though they kept falling further behind, they didn’t try to shoot the three-pointer themselves.

For a while, it seemed that Glenn would outscore the Bulldogs. Midway through the first half, he had a 15-12 lead. But Coach George Raveling began throwing in fresh players after Glenn had accumulated 21 points in 15 minutes. The Bulldogs trailed at halftime, 43-26.

Glenn made six consecutive three-pointers before missing just before the halftime buzzer.

Dwayne Hackett, who had been the Trojans’ best long-range shooter in the first four games, opened the second half with a three-pointer, and from then on, it was only a matter of how big the final margin would be.

The South Carolina State star, 6-foot-8 senior Jackie Robinson, found himself crowded by Trojans and never did get untracked. He had six points in the first half and wound up with 10, not even half his season average. He picked up his fourth foul midway through the second half and went to the bench to stay.

It wasn’t much of a test for the Trojans, but they will get one Wednesday night when 17th-ranked, unbeaten Nebraska tries to halt their Sports Arena winning streak.

The Trojans were 14 for 26 in three-point baskets, Glenn going seven for eight and winding up with 26 points. Junior guard Deon Murray led the Bulldogs with 17 points and made their only three-pointer. They tried 14, most of them late in the game.

“I’m not concerned with our record,” Raveling said. “I’m just interested in improvement every outing. I saw some good things, but I had hoped for a more competitive game. After the embarrassment in St. Louis, I wanted a better defense. There was good discipline on defense.”

In a 10-minute spell in the middle of the first half, the Bulldogs made only three field goals.