Aimee Blodgett | USF
In a figurative and geographic sense, the NCAA Tournament's Round of 16 bracket may represent the only territory USF's men's tennis team hasn't charted.
Virtually every other spot on the map, from Denmark to the Dominican Republic, has been accounted for. Coach Matt Hill's squad, making an unprecedented tourney run that continues Thursday in Waco, Texas, comprises players from nine different countries.
The common denominator? "We all like tennis," Spain native Ignacio Gonzalez-Muniz joked.
"We have Russian, we have English, we have Spanish, we have German. We have quite a few languages," said two-time American Athletic Conference Player of the Year Roberto Cid, a Dominican Republic native.