South Florida Bulls NCAA Basketball News

With stories about his online gambling debt circulating, Nick Calathes easily could have been distracted.

It took Stan Heath four games to get his first win last season, so it's hard for him to complain too much about any flaws in Friday's season-opening 60-46 win against SMU at the Sun Dome.

Verdejo scored 3-pointers on consecutive possessions to twice put the Bulls ahead by 14.

It seemed like 1989 all over again. There's a Bush in the White House and the University of South Florida was struggling against the pesky little Division II University of Tampa Spartans.

For USF this was the final exhibition game. For Tampa it is the biggest game of their regular season as the Division II Spartans made the short trip north the face the Big East Conference Bulls.

South Florida is constantly swimming up stream in the Big East. The Bulls need all the help they can get to stay competitive in the best conference in America.

South Florida 6-foot-10, 230-pound freshman forward Gus Gilchrist, who transferred from Maryland over the summer, has received a waiver from the NCAA and will be eligible on Dec.

TAMPA a ' University of South Florida freshman forward/center Gus Gilchrist was ruled eligible to play for the Bulls this season beginning with their seventh game against Niagara.

Dominique Jones should take full reigns this year as leader of the USF basketball team after sharing those duties with Kentrell Gransberry.

It's not just the wealth of experience returning and the addition of talented high school prospects that has the Big East looking so strong this season.

The good news is, all 16 Big East teams will make the conference's men's basketball tournament this season.

With the eligibility status of Gus Gilchrist still in limbo and USF head coach Stan Heath hopeful, but not particularly confident, of a positive resolution, it's a real possibility that the Bulls will face ...

The last four months have not been the best of Jim Calhoun's life. Last spring, doctors discovered that a lump in the upper right side of his neck was a type of skin cancer.

The University of South Florida uncovered and self-reported four secondary violations in the men's basketball program Wednesday in response to a Tampa Tribune public records request filed Tuesday.

One of the better teams in the CAA last season won most of the time it took the floor, but never actually played in a game.

The UCF Men's Basketball team has had a bad taste in its mouth for each of the past two seasons.

Former University of South Florida forward and rebounding machine Kentrell Gransberry was not picked up in last month's National Basketball Association draft.

Kentrell Gransberry had individual workouts with seven teams prior to Thursday's NBA draft.

TAMPA Teeng Akol, a 6-foot-11 forward from the Sudan who spent the past season at the IMG Academy in Bradenton, signed with the University of South Florida on Friday.

Orane Chin, a 6-foot-7 freshman wing player at South Florida in 2007-08, has signed financial aid documents and will transfer to Cal State Fullerton for the Fall semester.