Check out USC, UCLA draft hopefuls on ESPNU; Lavin analyzes

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If you’re a UCLA or USC basketball fan, do you want Jrue Holiday and DeMar DeRozan to do well this week at the NBA pre-draft camp in Chicago? Or do you secretly hope the freshmen flame out and have to come skulking back to college, forced to play a second year on campus for Ben Howland and Tim Floyd?

ESPNU will offer coverage of the May 28-29 draft combine. On Thursday, coverage will start at 11 a.m. for three hours, with two more hours beginning at 8 a.m. Friday. Former UCLA Coach Steve Lavin will be on hand to offer analysis along with Jay Williams, Chad Ford and Andy Katz. Mike Gleason will host the show. Also expected is Oklahoma’s Blake Griffin, who might well be the Clippers’ pick at No. 1 in all the draft. Clipper fans will not want Griffin to flame out.

-- Diane Pucin