According to ESPN's Joe Schad, Brandon Mitchell will transfer from Arkansas to North Carolina State. This likely eliminates NC State from the competition for the services of former Penn State QB Steven Bench. Bench visited USF last week, NC State over the weekend, and Mississippi State this week. Temple and FIU are also interested in Bench.
Florida downs Hampton 7-1 and will meet USF in the winners' bracket of the Gainesville Regional. Sara Nevins will likely be the USF starter, and will ideally reprise her Bruce Springsteen impersonation. You know, she's a boss.
NBC Sports, citing the Jackson Clarion-Ledger's Mississippi State blog, says the Penn State QB will visit USF on May 13-14, MSU the weekend of the 18th, and North Carolina State May 20-21.
ESPN's Joe Schad says Wes Lunt has narrowed his list to five schools, and is "very likely to choose one of the five schools and not expand his search." Those schools are Illinois, Louisville, Tennessee, Vanderbilt, and Southern Miss. The first four schools are all near Lunt's home state of Illinois, while USM head coach Todd Monken worked with Lunt at Oklahoma State.
ESPN's Joe Schad, who originally reported USF a possible transfer destination for Mitchell, has a new post that adds Michigan to Mitchell's list of choices, but no longer includes USF. Northwestern State and Louisiana Tech are still listed, though.
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— Nick Gryniewicz (@nickgryniewicz) May 9, 2013
I'm not sure how many folks on here read EDSBS, if you don't you should. If you do, drop RRISA some money in the name of USF!
Watching the NBA playoffs after months of nothing but USF basketball is disorienting. Why are they moving so fast? Why is the ball going in?
— Ryan T. Smith (@USFRyan) April 22, 2013
Andrea Smith goes to Connecticut at #35 (the next-to-last pick in the draft). She is only the second USF player ever chosen, the other being Jessica Dickson.
Solomon Jones is back in the NBA, signing a free-agent contract with the New York Knicks as they battle through a plague of injuries. He won't be eligible to join the playoff roster, but it's good to see him back in the league. Also it looks like they did have enough time to make him a jersey with his name stitched on the back. I thought they may have had to throw him out there in a blank uniform.