Southern California will try to get off to another hot start when it hosts Montana State in a nonconference game on Sunday afternoon.The Trojans (6-4) are coming off an 85-61 win over Washington on Dec. 7 in a Big Ten game in Seattle, which ended a three-game losing streak.USC shot 70.4 percent from the floor in the first half while scoring 51 points.Four players scored in double figures, led by Desmond Claude with 20 points. Claude leads the Trojans with 13.6 points per game.”I thought this was kind of a build-up for our team,” first-year USC coach Eric Musselman said.The Trojans had suffered a 68-60 loss to No. 12 Oregon three days earlier in its Big Ten opener in Los Angeles. USC owned a seven-point lead at the half against the Ducks and still led by eight with just over eight minutes left.”We played well during the Oregon game for 30 minutes and then played poor basketball for 10 minutes, but that was against a ranked team,” Musselman said. “We talked about a lot of the positives that happened even in the loss against Oregon, and I thought that we came back to have our best game of the year (against Washington).”Montana State (5-5) has won four of its past five games, most recently knocking off visiting Kansas City 74-62 on Dec. 7.