I'm finishing up my final day covering the NBA Summer League in Orlando for NBA.com, but there's still enough USF stuff happening to keep the blog busy during my downtime here.

-- Talked on Thursday to the 76ers' Samuel Dalembert, whose sister Melissa will be a senior center on USF's women's basketball team next season. Sam has seen his sister play in a game at Villanova, and I asked him if his schedule would allow him to get to Tampa -- he said the issue isn't the busy rigors of NBA play, but ... bugs. "When I'm down in Florida, I stay over here, where there's less mosquitos," he said.

-- More than 60 high school teams will be on USF's campus this weekend for the ever-expanding Sling & Shoot camp, which brings together a ton of recruits to get a close look at the Bulls' coaches and facilities. There's high praise for the Sling & Shoot from recruiting guru Larry Blustein in the Miami Herald. One addition to the weekend in the past year is a Lineman Challenge that will bring the big guys on campus in addition to the quarterbacks, receivers and defensive backs ...

-- ESPN.com blogger Brian Bennett has been doing a "Fresh Faces" feature on each Big East team, and today he gets to USF, writing about four newcomers: defensive ends Jason Pierre-Paul and Ryne Giddins, linebacker Sam Barrington and offensive linemen Jamar Bass. Hard to leave cornerback Kayvon Webster off the list, but Bennett is right that USF could have a handful of first-year players in key roles this fall. That upside, paired with USF's established stars in Matt Grothe and George Selvie, could be a winning combination if the newcomers don't act like newcomers by the time conference play starts in mid-October ...