Two games into the Andy Enfield Era, the only thing certain about his USC Trojans is uncertainty.

They got the win, of course, a sleepy 95-79 triumph over a generally overmatched Cal State Northridge team that saw the Trojans shoot a scintillating 57 percent from the field.

But it’s telling that Enfield trotted out 11 players before 10 minutes had even gone by, just like it says something that nine of them had scored points before the half was over. The starting lineup featured three different players – Chass Bryan, Julian Jacobs and Roschon Prince – from the group that started against Utah State, while the team’s best scorer J.T. Terrell began the game on the bench for what Enfield said was academics. By game’s end, 12 players played and recorded points.

“We're still trying to figure out everyone's roles on the team,” said junior Byron Wesley. “I think once we figure out what everyone's role is and how everyone can help us on this team, we're going to be a pretty good team.”

Wesley is one of a handful of players with some clarity. He is the Trojans’ ballast and, on Tuesday, their best overall player, notching a double-double with 16 points and 11 rebounds to go with six timely assists. The shooting – 5-for-14, including a 2-for-8 first half – isn’t anything to write home about on its own, but the attempts themselves came mostly on drives and cuts to the rim. It was the type of all-around game that Wesley said “is in the conversation” for his best ever performance at USC. It’s also the kind of performance he would not have been able to put together a year ago.

“If we can get that type of all-around production from him, we're going to win a lot of basketball games,” said Enfield. “Everyone knows he can score. It's the rebounding and playmaking ability he's really improved with.”

The other big certainty came from the largest man on the floor. To hear Enfield tell it, Oraby ought to shoot 7-for-8 from the field every night like he did on Tuesday. He should score a game-high 17 points by overpowering hapless Matador defenders, and needs to pull down more rebounds than the six he hauled in. Enfield is impressed by the 7-foot-2 Egyptian’s progress, but his expectations are legion.

“Sometimes, he doesn't realize how good a player he is or could be,” Enfield said. “I think he's still learning, but there's more in attack and more potential there. He needs to realize that if he wants to be dominant in this league, he needs to be the aggressor. He needs to be the first guy to box out. He needs to be the first guy on defense when the ball's reversed. He needs to cover both sides of the lane instead of one side.”

Apart from those two, however, nothing is settled. Terrell figures to be the third pillar, but Enfield made it abundantly clear through his actions and postgame media session that he will not hesitate to sit him or anyone else who fails to get it done in the classroom. Brendyn Taylor played all of three nondescript minutes against Utah State; on Tuesday, he drilled a pair of three pointers sandwiched around a huge block and earned Enfield’s praise postgame. Conversely, Strahinja Gavrilovic started in Logan but got five minutes on Tuesday; Nikola Jovanovic, meanwhile, saw his playing time double in an 11-point night. There is very little to be gleaned from 80 minutes of basketball to begin with, of course, and that’s especially true for a first-year coach inheriting a rebuilt roster. But rare is the win that raises more questions than it answers, and Tuesday is quite seemingly that.

“We have a long way to go,” Enfield admitted. “We show flashes where we play extremely well for four or five minutes but we need consistency. A lot of that is our bench. We just need energy off the bench. Sometimes we'll go into a two or three-minute lull on the defensive end. I don't even care if they score.”

None of which is to say there weren’t early impressions, or strong ones at that. An offense that figures to rely on spacing as much as fast break pyrotechnics connected on an impressive 7 of 16 three-point attempts, including two apiece from Terrell and Taylor. The Trojans were less Dunk City than Backdoor Cut Boulevard, a decidedly less flashy way to score points but much more dependable one over the long haul, not to mention fundamentally sound to boot. Julian Jacobs lived up to his billing as the best freshman of fall camp, dishing out an impressive seven assists to just one turnover and displaying a fluidity that belied his pedestrian recruiting rankings. Defensively, they reduced a hard-charging Northridge team to 33 percent shooting, a partial testament to enthusiastic play of the freshmen – “Our freshmen are the reason we had the lead early on,” Wesley said – as well as Oraby’s dominance inside.

Some of these things may become trends, while others could fade away. There is no telling which fall into either side, of course, just as it’s too soon to gauge which players will become core contributors versus who will fall by the wayside. There are no true answers here, not yet.

That’s fine by Enfield, who is signed up and ready for the long haul. There’s no better way to take this win, the first of what will be many under his tenure, than how he described the output of his famous offense.

“We scored 95 points,” he said. “You can't be too upset.”

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