South Florida Bulls Rumors & News
USF signee Gunsby seeks state hoops title
The Bulletin | St. Petersburg Times — Jamius Gunsby, the athletic Georgia quarterback headed to USF this fall on a football scholarship, goes for a state high school championship tonight as he leads LaGrange High against Columbia. Gunsby, a 6-foot-5 forward/center in basketball, had 19 points --...
9 hours agoQuiet weekend for USF before Sunday night
The Bulletin | St. Petersburg Times — Back home from the Big East tournament, and it should be a quiet day or two until USF's basketball teams learn their pairings for their respective NITs late Sunday night. Bulls fans can keep an eye on the conference tournaments,...
March 12, 2010Former USF coach Greenberg headed to St. John’s?
Bulls Report | Tampa Tribune — Former University of South Florida men’s basketball coach Seth Greenberg has an important game today when his Virginia Tech team faces Miami in the second round of the ACC Tournament. According to a report in Thursday’s edition of The New York Post, Greenberg…
March 12, 2010Hoyas pull upset of Orange
Tampa Tribune — Arinze Onuaku crashed to the floor and clutched his right knee, writhing in pain at Madison Square Garden.
March 11, 2010For heck of it—a Jones-Douglas comparison
Bulls Report | Tampa Tribune — Since the future of USF junior G Dominique Jones is sure to be a hot topic the next few weeks, I’d like to offer a look at what Jones’ rookie season in the NBA might look like next season should he opt to enter the NBA Draft This is a…
March 11, 2010Jones’ decision to have huge impact regardless of final outcome
Bulls Report | Tampa Tribune — Will he stay or will he go? That’s the most important question surrounding the USF men’s basketball program. Junior guard Dominique Jones told the New York Post on Wednesday that “the NBA is not going anywhere, so I’ll take my time to make my decision.’’ When Jones played his way…
March 11, 2010Noon: Chat live with Gary Shelton
The Bulletin | St. Petersburg Times — By now, you've probably seen Times sports columnist Gary Shelton's piece on how the NIT could be a stepping stone to better things for the USF men's basketball team. Have a thought or a question you want to share with...
March 11, 2010Pierre-Paul 7th, 17th in new ESPN mock drafts
The Bulletin | St. Petersburg Times — Ah, mock drafts. I'm still in New York for one more day, flying out tonight and bringing back a feature or two on other Big East stories to run during the NCAA Tournament. But the mock drafts carry on --...
March 11, 2010State NIT foe likely for Bulls
Tampa Tribune — Normally, today is the first day of the offseason for the University of South Florida men's basketball team.
March 11, 2010Moving on to NIT: Bulls should host, right?
The Bulletin | St. Petersburg Times — Wednesday's loss to Georgetown has ended any reasonable talk of USF playing in the NCAA Tournament, so now we can turn to something that has an impressive, even alarming level of research and speculation: Projecting the NIT field. It's been...
March 10, 2010
- Newark's Da'Sean Butler leads No. 7 West Virginia to first Big East title in 60-58 victory over No. 22 Georgetown Newark Star-Ledger Hits second game-winning basket in three days for Mountaineers
- Marquette's focus turns to NCAA tournament after lackluster showing Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Marquette left Madison Square Garden secure in the knowledge that Sunday it will earn an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament for the fifth consecutive year and confident it's not going to make the same mistakes it made in a loss to Georgetown moving forward.
- Monroe, Hoyas take Hilltop to the mountaintop Washington Post "I see no reason why Georgetown basketball can ever be as successful as it was. There's no evidence of that. I think they need a superstar. Why would a superstar go there?"
- Notre Dame men's basketball: Change by Brey all about survival South Bend Tribune Having lost six of its last nine games and an All-American to injury along the way, the Notre Dame men's basketball team had reached a crossroads on Feb. 15.
- Where will Marquette land? Golden Eagles Blog | Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Now that Marquette is out of the Big East tournament all that is left is to wait until Selection Sunday to see what seed is given the Golden Eagles.
- Notre Dame gets on bus after NY flights washed out | More Chicago Tribune
- Grooming new talent is always a necessity for Rays Tampa Tribune The reality that surrounds a small-revenue team like the Rays is that eventually its star players get too big for the market.
- Position breakdown: 5th starter Tampa Tribune The name Wade Davis has been penciled into the Rays' plans this season, but only penciled in, because the team wants the young right-hander to earn the final spot in the rotation.
- Brown could prove to still have value for Bucs Tampa Tribune New receiver Reggie Brown is a player hungry for a chance to prove he can still play in this league.
- Longo and company raise almost $16,000 for friend Rays Report | Tampa Tribune Rays third baseman Evan Longoria, pitchers Matt Garza and David Price (above) and center fielder B.J. Upton hung around Charlotte Sports Park after Saturday’s loss to the Marlins and signed autographs for nearly an hour to raise money for a friend fighting cancer. The players charged $25 a…
- Upton's blasts not enough to beat Marlins Tampa Tribune B.J. Upton homered twice to right field for his first two home runs of the spring, but the Rays winning streak is over.
- Bucs Could Still Land S Jones Bucs Report | Tampa Tribune By ROY CUMMINGS rcummings@tampatrib.com TAMPA – The Bucs could still land Sean Jones but the free agent safety has at least one more visit to make before he makes up his mind on where to play in 2010. Jones is expected to visit the Tennessee Titans…