While the UCLA Bruins are in the midst of a modest offseason in terms of adding talent to their roster, the USC Trojans are loading up. Guard Alijah Arenas announced on Monday that he’d be returning to the Trojans for a second season.

This past year wasn’t the freshman season Arenas envisioned, playing in 14 games for a USC team that missed the NCAA tournament. Arenas scored 14.1 points per game on 34.1% shooting from the field.

The son of NBA star Gilbert Arenas came to the Trojans as a five-star recruit and was 247 Sports No. 1 shooting guard in the country. While USC head coach Eric Musselman hasn’t had a ton of success on the court, with a career record of 35-32 with the Trojans, but he has built an insane roster.

Arenas isn’t the only USC star heading back for another season with the Trojans, Rodney Rice, who scored 20.3 points per game in his six games with USC this past season. Rice needed shoulder injury, which shut his season down early but the veteran guard gives USC a premier scorer. In the transfer portal, USC added KJ Lewis out of Georgetown, who put up 14.9 points per game this past season.

Musselman hasn’t stopped recruiting, as USC is set to add five-star forward Christian Collins. Collins is 247 Sports’ No. 9 player in the Class of 2026, giving the Trojans another top recruit to play with.

UCLA’s additions are of a different level. The Bruins added four-star transfers Filip Jovic and Jaylen Pettey, along with three-star transfers Sergej Macure and Azavier Robinson. UCLA’s Mick Cronin has had great results over Musselman during their time on the West Coast but USC is adding the talent to change that in a hurry.

This article originally appeared on UCLA Wire: Alijah Arenas is staying with USC, giving the Trojans more firepower