Point guard Crater will transfer to USF

[Held_AccountaBull]

Friday night's 59-54 loss to No. 13 Syracuse was a near-miss for USF men's basketball, but coach Stan Heath got something big out of the game. Former Ohio State guard Anthony "Noopy" Crater, who attended the game with his mother, has decided to join the Bulls as a midyear transfer and hopes to start classes Monday.

Crater, a quick 6-foot-1 guard who played 10 games at Ohio State as a true freshman, will not be able to play for the Bulls until the end of fall exams in December, but will then have three and a half years of eligibility with USF.

Crater, from Flint, Michigan, averaged just 1.2 points as a Buckeye, playing 13 minutes per game, but comes to the Bulls with high recruiting accolades. Both major recruiting sites rated him a three-star recruit, and Scout.com ranked him as the No. 21 point guard in last year's class. He had scholarship offers from elite national programs such as Kansas, Arizona and Pittsburgh, according to both recruiting sites.

He's the fifth midyear transfer to join the Bulls in the past four seasons -- guard Jesus Verdejo (Arizona) and center Kentrell Gransberry (LSU) in December 2006, guard Aaron Holmes (Florida State) in 2007 and guard Mike Mercer (Georgia) last season.

http://blogs.tampabay.com/usf/2009/01/point-guard-c-1.html

[Guest AstroBull]

Awesome!  Welcome Noopy!

All we need now is a big or 2.

[Guest AstroBull]

Here are a couple YouTubes of Crater

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yORopEI9tEU

[DontPushMe]

this is great news, i was hoping that with the good turnout and good effort by the team he would pick us

this is the pure passing point gaurd we needed

him, jones, and gilchrist for 2 years will be awesome

im still hoping marhold or edwards comes here too

[Compute-a-bull]

Definitely a nice pickup. We need a distributor.

[TRUTH D. Antagonist]

can DoJo play the 2?

[Guest AstroBull]

I think DoJo is a better fit at the 2.

[TRUTH D. Antagonist]

I think DoJo is a better fit at the 2.

that would be my opinion as well.

he is a score-first kinda guy rather than a ball distributor, so having a real point like Crater playing the 1 with DoJo at the 2 would make more sense.

[Triple B]

Why did he leave OSU? ..... and with Zeus leaving we need to find another long range threat to replace him.

[South_Florida_Flip]

and with Zeus leaving we need to find another long range threat to replace him.

I think that is where Noriega and Dumars come in.