Blackwell: Marshall University and their Patterson School connections

Has­san White­side, Mar­shall University

Tir­rell Baines, Mar­shall University

Being an avid fol­lower of Mar­shall bas­ket­ball, it is hard not to notice the one thing (besides coach Don­nie Jones) that seems to be impact­ing the pro­gram right now…and it’s not ONLY Has­san White­side!  What that thing hap­pens to be seems to be a con­nec­tion to The Pat­ter­son School, a pri­vate school in Lenoir, North Car­olina.  Cur­rent mem­bers of the Herd ros­ter who played for Pat­ter­son include not only White­side, but Tir­rell Baines and DeAn­dre Kane.  Assis­tant coach Tim Thomas was also the ath­letic direc­tor, and asso­ciate men’s prep bas­ket­ball coach at the Pat­ter­son School under Chris Chaney,  before join­ing the Mar­shall staff in June of 2007.  Ear­lier this week I was for­tu­nate enough to speak to Coach Chaney and gain a lit­tle insight into the Marshall/Patterson connection.

The Pat­ter­son School was a pri­vate insti­tu­tion in Lenoir, North Car­olina, that in recent years was always men­tioned in the top list of men’s prep bas­ket­ball teams around the coun­try.  The school closed due to finan­cial rea­sons in the tough eco­nomic times we are cur­rently fac­ing.  Coach Chaney is cur­rently back home in Mary­land tak­ing a year off, build­ing his con­tacts, and work­ing on what his future holds.  In my inter­view with Coach Chaney he explained to me that he had been friends with Don­nie Jones, and after Mar­shall hired Tim Thomas, he became more famil­iar with the Uni­ver­sity and is impressed that Mar­shall does things the “right way”. More >

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Roberts: Rutgers Scarlet Knights and University of South Florida Bulls (Women’s Basketball)

A career-best per­for­mance by Jes­sica Law­son — 33 points and 10 rebounds to go along with three steals and two blocked shots — wasn’t enough for the Uni­ver­sity of South Florida’s women’s bas­ket­ball team from avoid­ing a dis­ap­point­ing 60–52 loss against the Rut­gers Scar­let Knights Sat­ur­day after­noon at the USF Sun Dome.

The Bulls, hop­ing to extend a two-game win­ning streak against Big East rivals Cincin­nati and Vil­lanova, started off the game with an obvi­ous feroc­ity, scor­ing 14 of the first 17 points scored in the con­test, and tak­ing as much as an 11 point lead with 13:19 remain­ing in the first half.

Rut­gers, how­ever, show­ing its refusal to con­cede a loss so early in the game, then outscored USF in an impres­sive 17–9 run, and cut­ting the Bulls lead to just three at intermission.

The Bulls appeared to regroup at the begin­ning of the sec­ond period, extend­ing its lead to as much as four points within the first four min­utes of the half.  Yet Rut­gers proved tena­cious, and keep­ing the con­test frus­trat­ingly close, ended up finally tak­ing over the lead, 36–35, at the 10:01 left, when the Scar­let Knights guard Khadi­jah Rush­dan scored on a lay up.

From that point for­ward, Rut­gers would yield no more than a two point lead to its oppo­nent (45–43 with 5:47 left in the game), but build­ing on a strong eight-of-10 shoot­ing from the free throw line dur­ing the last 54 sec­onds of the game, even­tu­ally pulled away from USF and put the game out of reach of the now 13–9 Bulls.

Rut­gers, led by Kashdan’s team-high 17 points, now moves to 13–10 on the sea­son, this despite shoot­ing just 38.3 per­cent from the field (18–47) and hit­ting a mere one of five from three points.

Mean­while, USF pre­pares for a three-game road series that begins Feb­ru­ary 9 against Mar­quette, then moves on to Seton Hall on Feb­ru­ary 13 and George­town on Feb­ru­ary 17.

Law­son, as usual, proved the Bulls pri­mary offen­sive weapon in Saturday’s loss, post­ing her 12th double-double of the 2009–2010 sea­son against Rut­gers and her fifth straight in Big East action.  The sixth-year senior now has 22 double-doubles in her time at the Uni­ver­sity of South Florida and has a total of 23 includ­ing her time spent at the Uni­ver­sity of California.

What fol­lows is a photo jour­nal of Saturday’s game as pro­vided by Jason Roberts of PRISM Press Group.  As always, all mate­r­ial included in this post remains the sole prop­erty of Jason and PRISM PRress Group and may not be repro­duced with­out explicit per­mis­sion, obtain­able by email­ing jason@prismpressgroup.org. More >

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Carlson: Rugby — South Florida vs. University of Florida Photo Journal

USF vs UF Rugby

Sat­ur­day after­noon was filled with a num­ber of Uni­ver­sity of South Florida sport­ing events for PRISM Press Group. Katie Carl­son and Jason Roberts spent the day dri­ving around the USF cam­pus shoot­ing a vari­ety of ath­letic com­pe­ti­tions fea­tur­ing the Bulls. Here, Katie pro­vides images of the USF Men’s Rugby team com­pete­ing against the Uni­ver­sity of Florida Rugby team. This was the first time PRISM Press Group had the oppor­tu­nity to attend a rugby match and we look for­ward to pro­vid­ing more pho­tos in the future. We encour­age you to visit the USF Bulls’ Rugby web­site at usfbullsrugby.com All images are the prop­erty of Katie Carl­son and can­not be used with­out her per­mis­sion, obtain­able by writ­ing her at katie@prismpressgroup.org. More >

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Carlson: USF Baseball Pre-Season Practice Photo Journal

USF Base­ball

Sat­ur­day after­noon was filled with a num­ber of Uni­ver­sity of South Florida sport­ing events for PRISM Press Group. Katie Carl­son and Jason Roberts spent the day dri­ving around the USF cam­pus shoot­ing a vari­ety of ath­letic com­pe­ti­tions fea­tur­ing the Bulls. Here, Katie pro­vides images from the Bulls’ base­ball pre-season prac­tice which took place at Red McE­wan Field right across the street from the women’s bas­ket­ball game. USF Base­ball sea­son opens on Feb­ru­ary 19th as the Bulls head to Gainesville to take on the Florida Gators. The Bulls will play their first home game March 9th against Jacksonville.  All images are the prop­erty of Katie Carl­son and can­not be used with­out her per­mis­sion, obtain­able by writ­ing her at katie@prismpressgroup.org

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Carlson: Photo Journal USF Women’s Basketball vs. Rutgers 2/6/10

Kaneisha Saun­ders, South Florida

Sat­ur­day after­noon was filled with a num­ber of Uni­ver­sity of South Florida sport­ing events for PRISM Press Group. Katie Carl­son and Jason Roberts spent the day dri­ving around the USF cam­pus shoot­ing a vari­ety of ath­letic com­pe­ti­tions fea­tur­ing the Bulls. Here, Katie pro­vides images from the women’s bas­ket­ball game at the USF Sun­dome in Tampa, Florida which fea­tured the South Florida Bulls tak­ing on the Rut­gers Scar­let Knights. The Bulls led by as many as  eight points but the Scar­let Knights even­tu­ally won the closely con­tested game by a final score of 60–52. Jes­sica Law­son of the Bulls led all scor­ers with 33 points. All images are the prop­erty of Katie Carl­son and can­not be used with­out her per­mis­sion, obtain­able by writ­ing her at katie@prismpressgroup.org. More >

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Roberts: A Glimpse of Things To Come — University of South Florida Baseball

Jason Roberts of PRISM Press Group hap­pened to catch a glimpse of the 2010 Uni­ver­sity of South Florida Bulls base­ball squad in an intrasquad scrim­mage this after­noon at Red McEwen Field dur­ing half­time of today’s Lady Bulls and Rut­gers Lady Scar­let Knights bas­ket­ball game at the USF Sun Dome, and along with PRISM Press Group’s Katie Carl­son, cap­tured a hand­ful of images from the exhi­bi­tion game, offered here for the enjoy­ment of our read­er­ship.  As always, any and all mate­r­ial included here remains the sole prop­erty of Jason Roberts and PRISM Press Group and may not be repro­duced with­out explicit per­mis­sion, obtain­able by email­ing jason@prismpressgroup.org.  Stay tuned to PRISM Press Group for more cov­er­age of the Bulls base­ball pro­gram as it pre­pares for the 2010 sea­son, which opens up Fri­day, Feb­ru­ary 19 in Gainsville against the Uni­ver­sity of Florida Gators. More >

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Roberts: A Run-In With USF Rugby …

There is rarely a dull moment around here at PRISM Press Group, and today proved no excep­tion, with Jason Roberts and Katie Carl­son encoun­ter­ing the Uni­ver­sity of South Florida’s “offi­cial” rugby club this after­noon fol­low­ing the con­clu­sion of the Lady Bulls / Rut­gers Lady Knights bas­ket­ball game as it hosted the Uni­ver­sity of Florida at the intra­mural fields par­al­lel­ing Fletcher Avenue.  A late arrival at the B-match between the two squads pre­vented Jason from offer­ing much in terms of writ­ten cov­er­age of all the action, but still offers the oppor­tu­nity  to pro­vide our read­er­ship with the pre­mier instance of  what we hope will be an ongo­ing series of photo jour­nals high­light­ing some of the images from the enter­tain­ing match up.  As always, all shots pro­vided here remain the sole prop­erty of Jason Roberts and PRISM Press Group and may not be used with­out writ­ten per­mis­sion, obtain­able by email­ing jason@prismpressgroup.org.  Also, we invite all read­ers to take a moment to learn more about the USF rugby club by vis­it­ing its offi­cial web­site, reach­able by click­ing here.

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Blackwell: It’s Official — Willy Korn to Transfer from Clemson to Marshall!

In an AP story that appeared on Foxsports.com and ESPN.com today, it has been made offi­cial that Willy Korn will trans­fer from Clem­son to Mar­shall with two years of eli­gi­bil­ity remain­ing after he grad­u­ates from Clem­son in May.  It is said that he will con­tinue to work out in Clemson’s weight room and work with their receivers in the spring, and also work out at least once a week with Bobby Bent­ley, his for­mer Byrnes High School coach.  Newly signed Mar­shall WR Jazz King also hails from Byrnes, which is one of,  if not the top, High School foot­ball pro­gram in the state of South Car­olina. More >

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