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By BRIAN LANDMAN and Times wires
© St. Petersburg Times, published July 26, 2001
Season tickets for South Florida basketball -- with games against Florida, Florida State, California and eight Conference USA opponents including Cincinnati, Memphis and Charlotte -- are on sale.
The complete schedule is not set, but there will be at least 14 home games at the Sun Dome. Season tickets are $155. For information: (813) 987-6816.
Single-game tickets (with the exception of the Bulls vs. Florida) will go on sale in the fall. USF does not plan to sell individual tickets for the Dec. 8 Tampa Bay Shootout game against Florida. Tickets for that game can be bought only in a season-ticket package.
CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY: The school believes it has the nation's only husband-and-wife head coaches at the same college. Maggie Lonergan was hired as women's coach and her husband, Mike, is in his 10th year coaching the men.
CINCINNATI: Andy Kennedy, an assistant and chief recruiter at UAB, was hired as an assistant.
ILLINOIS: Guard Frank Williams injured his right wrist during practice and withdrew from the U.S. team for the World Championships for Young Men. X-rays were negative.
PITT: Tony Tate, a 6-foot point guard from New Jersey, has signed and will be eligible next season. Tate averaged 19 points last season at Marist High in Bayonne and was being recruited by a number of schools, including Maryland, Tennessee, Providence and Georgia Tech. However, some schools backed off recruiting him after he was expelled from school for fighting after the season ended.
TENNESSEE: Junior guards Harris Walker and Terrence Woods were dismissed for violating team rules. Both were key reserves and would have competed for starting roles. The Vols will turn to new signee Thaydeus Holden, shooting guard Jon Higgins and maybe a walk-on. "Hopefully there's somebody in the student body," coach Buzz Peterson said.
TOLEDO: Coach Stan Joplin has signed a five-year extension through the 2005-06 season.
OREGON STATE: Former Florida State quarterback Jared Jones, the probable heir to Chris Weinke before he was dismissed in January for violating team rules, is expected to walk on, an OSU official said. Jones, 21, from Walla Walla, Wash., is an outfielder with the Seattle Mariners' rookie league team in Peoria, Ariz. The Mariners would pay for his school expenses. He could not be reached for comment. If he joins OSU, he would have to sit out a year and would then have just one year of eligibility left and it's no guarantee he would start. Coach Dennis Erickson figures to groom touted freshman Derek Anderson this season.
SOUTH CAROLINA: Linebacker Shannon Wadley, who had hoped to play despite injuring his anterior cruciate ligament earlier this month, will have reconstructive surgery that will end his career.
WESTERN KENTUCKY: J.J. Jewell, a former quarterback at Western Kentucky who set a school record with 495 yards offense against UCF in 1994, died in an auto accident Tuesday. He was 29. Jewell died on Interstate 65 near the Tennessee border when he lost control of his vehicle in heavy rain, state police said. His car crossed the median and was broadsided by a tractor-trailer.
FLORIDA STATE: Star forward Emma Breland has returned to her home in Sweden to be with her family following the death of her father Ulf and will miss the season, coach Patrick Baker said.