JIO FONTAN RUMORS & GOSSIP
Fontan's USC career comes to end...
USC lost its opening game in the Pac-12 Tournament to Utah Wednesday night 69-66. An emotional Trojan redshirt senior Jio Fontan spoke with FOX Sports NEXT following the game...
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March 14, 2013
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Southern Cal 71, Stanford 69
Jio Fontan scored 15 points including a pair of tiebreaking free throws with 6.9 seconds to play and USC pulled out a 71-69 victory over Stanford on Thursday night in the Pac-12 opener for both schools.
Eric Wise added 14 points for USC (6-8). Four of the Trojans' losses have come against schools that are currently among the top 20 in the nation including Minnesota, Illinois...
Via AP on Fox
January 04, 2013
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USC wins Pac-12 opener over Stanford
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Jio Fontan scored 15 points including a pair of tiebreaking free throws with 6.9 seconds to play and USC pulled out a 71-69 victory over Stanford on Thursday night in the Pac-12 opener for both schools.
Eric Wise added 14 points for USC (6-8). Four of the Trojans' losses have come against schools that are currently among the top 20 in the nation including...
Via Fox Sports West
January 04, 2013
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Injury won't keep USC's Fontan out of Pac-12 opener
USC men's basketball Coach Kevin O'Neill said X-rays showed that point guard Jio Fontan sprained his left thumb in the first half of USC's 63-61 overtime win over Dayton on Sunday and that Fontan will play in the Trojans' Pac-12 Conference opener against Stanford on Thursday with the thumb taped.
"He practiced," O'Neill said Wednesday. "He'...
Via Fox Sports West
January 02, 2013
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Southern Cal 70, UC Riverside 26
Jio Fontan and Eric Wise each scored 14 points and USC ended a five-game losing streak with a 70-26 rout of cold-shooting UC Riverside on Saturday.
Chris Patton and Chris Harriel had a team-high six points for Riverside (2-8), which shot 19 percent from the field and was 1 of 14 from 3-point range. The Highlanders' starting five - Harriel, Robert Smith, Lucas Devenny, Davin...
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December 15, 2012
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USC demolishes UC Riverside, 70-26
LOS ANGELES -- While USC got back on track Saturday afternoon at the Galen Center, UC Riverside continued to veer so far off track the Highlanders may have lost sight of it in a 70-26 loss.
The last six Highlander points helped UC Riverside narrowly avoid a very dubious honor. The 26 points scored is just six away from the NCAA all-time shot clock era low of 20, set by Saint Louis...
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December 15, 2012
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USC rolls over inept UC Riverside in blowout
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Jio Fontan and Eric Wise each scored 14 points and USC ended a five-game losing streak with a 70-26 rout of cold-shooting UC Riverside on Saturday.
Chris Patton and Chris Harriel had a team-high six points for Riverside (2-8), which shot 19 percent from the field and was 1 of 14 from 3-point range. The Highlanders' starting five -- Harriel, Robert Smith,...
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December 15, 2012
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Fontan Talks Expectations
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. -- FOX Sports NEXT caught up with USC point guard Jio Fontan at 2012 PAC-12 Men's Basketball Media Day. Check out the one-on-one interview inside...
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November 07, 2012
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USC tries to rebound from 26-loss season
Hit hard by injuries and a school-record 26 losses last season, the Southern California Trojans are eager to put the ugliness behind them and make a big turnaround led by point guard Jio Fontan.
The projected star of the program has mostly been off the court the last two seasons after transferring from Fordham. Fontan played just half a season in his USC debut, then missed all of...
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November 01, 2012
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USC hoops a team of second chances
LOS ANGELES -- The 2011-12 USC mens basketball season ended hundreds of miles away from the USC campus.
No, it wasnt during any type of postseason tournament. It was actually during a preseason exhibition in Brazil when star guard Jio Fontan suffered a torn ACL.
Last year the feeling around our program went downhill as soon as Jio got hurt in Brazil, said USC head coach Kevin ONeill...
Via Fox Sports West
October 19, 2012
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