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Courtesy USF SID Office

USF Travels To No. 10 Pittsburgh Sunday Afternoon

TV:  WFTS, Noon ET

Note courtesy of Bulliever:  Also on ESPN's Full Court FREE PREVIEW this weekend

The University of South Florida men’s basketball team concludes its week against nationally ranked opponents Sunday afternoon when the squad faces No. 10/10 Pittsburgh on the road.  The Bulls are coming off a league-opening loss at No. 18 UConn Tuesday night.  The matchup with the Panthers is the featured BIG EAST Game of the Week and will be broadcast live in the greater Tampa area on WFTS-TV.  John Sanders (play-by-play) and Bucky Waters (analyst) will handle the call.

Big East Matchup First For Both Teams

While 2006-07 marks USF’s second in the BIG EAST, Sunday’s matchup with Pittsburgh will be the first between the two schools since the Bulls joined the league.

Last year, USF did not face the Panthers or Marquette in the program’s debut campaign in the conference.  The Bulls are 2-0 all-time against PITT, having most recently earned a 69-63 win during the 2001-02 season.

Both of the previous matchups have come during regular season tournaments.  In 1975-76, the two teams faced off in the Big Sun Tournament (St. Petersburg, Fla.) and the 2001-02 contest occurred at the University Hoops Classic (Moon Township, Pa.).

USF’s Infirmary Running Out Of Cots  

A season ago, the USF playing roster was reduced for a majority of the campaign to seven healthy scholarship players.  As the Bulls enter the heart of the BIG EAST schedule, head coach Robert McCullum again finds himself with an extremely short bench.

The most recent casualty is sophomore forward Aris Williams, who will miss an undetermined amount of time with a femoral chondral defect in his right knee.  He has already missed five games with tendonitis in his left knee.

Senior point guard Chris Capko has missed the last five games with an ankle injury and he isn’t expected to return anytime soon.  

Redshirts Chris Howard and Zaronn Cann, who are both recovering from ACL surgery, have yet to see action for USF in 2006-07.  Howard hopes to make his Bull debut next week, while Cann’s return remains unsure.

The Bulls lost freshman Dante Curry during the preseason because of an achilles injury suffered in conditioning.

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I am losing hope that we will ever see Cann play a game here, not that I had much hope of that to begin with.

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another an embarrassing loss in our future

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