Briefs: Barkley collects honors

USC junior quarterback Matt Barkley, a Newport Beach resident, has been named Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Week and he also earned second-team all-conference honors in football, it was announced Monday.

Barkley completed 35 of 42 passes (83.3%), a school record, for 423 yards and six touchdowns in the Trojans’ 50-0 blowout of crosstown rival UCLA on Saturday at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.

His six touchdown passes tied his own school single-game record set earlier this year at Colorado. Barkley finishes the season with a .691 completion percentage, breaking Rob Johnson’s 1993 school season record of 68.6%.

He finishes with 3,258 passing yards, the fifth-best single-season total in USC annals. He completed 308 of 446 with 39 touchdown passes and seven interceptions.

The three-year starter has completed 755 of 1,175 career pass attempts for 9,054 yards. He has 80 touchdown passes and 33 interceptions.

Barkley has not announced whether he will return for his senior season or make himself eligible for the NFL Draft.

— From staff reports

UCI dismisses Mulloy

Kevin Mulloy, a 6-foot-6 redshirt freshman forward, has been dismissed from the UC Irvine men’s basketball team for violating team rules, Anteaters Coach Russell Turner announced Monday.

Mulloy, who redshirted last season, did not play in any of the Anteaters’ six games this season.

— From staff reports

Succop on a streak

Ryan Succop, Mr. Irrelevant in 2009, continues his impressive season as the Kansas City Chiefs’ kicker.

With three field goals of 49, 41 and 40 yards in Sunday night’s loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers, he has made 15 straight field-goal attempts, tying his best career streak.

He has connected on 16 of 19 attempts this season (84.2%), and is slightly better than that in his three-year career, nailing 61 of 74 attempts for an 82.4% clip. Succop has 25 touchbacks on 41 kickoffs this season.

— From staff reports