Levance Fields has been jetting around a bit to attend team workouts. He does not expect to get drafted, but it will be very likely that he will sign a free agent deal for at least the summer league.

At the end of last week he was out in Sacremento.

Another intriguing player that worked out for the Kings was Pittsburgh point guard Levance Fields.

At 5-foot-10, 190 pounds, Fields looks a lot like a football player. And he’s from Brooklyn, NY and most basketball fans know the swagger that comes with a point guard from New York.

Fields isn’t considered one of the top prospects at the position.

He led a Pitt team that was known for its toughness. So it’s no surprise that’s what Fields touted as one of his strengths.

“I’m just tough nosed,” he said. “Tough mentally, a grind it out type of player. Not really pretty, not fancy. I just get the job done and do whatever my team needs for me to do to win. I think that’s all that matters. As long as my team wins, that’s all I care about.”

No actual word how he performed.

Tomorrow he has a workout with the NY Knicks. The only other guard set to come in that day is Gonzaga senior Micah Downs.

Fields’ agent is expressing the requisite optimism.

“We want to get him in the best shape that he’s been in,” [Keith] Glass said. “He’s not been able to be in great shape because of the injuries. Every team in the league loves the way he plays, but their concern has always been his conditioning and the shape that he’s been in.”

According to the story, Orlando and Chicago have also been interested in him.

We haven’t heard much about Tyrell Biggs except for a brief bit of positive press at the end of May. Well, he also was down at the IMG Academy with Blair to get in shape and improve his game.

Sean Brown, a walk-on with Pitt this past year (and also Biggs’ roommate) has a bit up for SLAM while he is, uh, “trying to breakthrough in a street culture industry (Think Alife Rivington Club and Reed Space) while maintaining my love for the game via the written word.”

The New York native had a mediocre senior season on a quality Pittsburgh team surround by scoring threats, but with a position change and improved aggressiveness Biggs is believed to get some quality looks from NBA scouts. At 6’8” with quality face-up skills, Biggs has proven that his play in college was merely lost in translation. “College was a great experience from a team perspective for me, now I can show off my individual skill.” The little aspects of his shot have made it more consistent crediting his focus and some instruction on bouncing after his release. Outside of his playing ability everyone seems to acknowledge Biggs’s business like attitude towards the game. Thorpe has described Biggs as coming in “fully aware of the obstacles he faces and the daily fight he will endure.” This uphill battle that Biggs will face to land on an NBA roster has been met with his attitude of constant professionalism and a planned purpose throughout all his workouts. Sometimes the ability to be seen in a different setting allows players such as Biggs to surprise and creates opportunity to play at a higher level once not available to them.

Biggs’ obstacle to the NBA is his inability to play good defense, not getting better consistency with his shot.

I wish both Fields and Biggs the best, and hope they have great careers in Europe.

Ralph Willard, a dismal failure as head basketball coach at Pitt. A coach who could recruit, but ignored character while at Pitt.

Well, Willard is leaving his position as head coach of Holy Cross — his alma mater — to resume being Rick Pitino’s manservant lackey assistant.

I only made it to Fitzgerald for two games in the Willard era. Both ended the same way. Pitt blew huge leads and lost when the opposing team shot a gamewinner at the buzzer. The UConn game that sealed his fate and against Rutgers a year or two before.

I wish him nothing but the worst.

Ah, Huggy-bear. Really? Walking into the edge of a bathroom door is the best you could do to explain this?

Ed Pastilong and Bob Huggins

There’s something reassuring to know that Bob Huggins will never change.

So the fallout from USC will echo for a bit. Interesting bit, if true.

The university wasted no time searching for a replacement with Pittsburgh coach Jamie Dixon the top choice followed by former NBA coaches Jeff Van Gundy and Reggie Theus and Southern Mississippi coach Larry Eustachy.

Sources said last week USC started the process of contacting Dixon, a native of the San Fernando Valley and one of the nation’s top young coaches. But the Pitt coach is believed to have a buyout clause worth more than $1 million. Dixon did not return a message Tuesday night.

Only the timing of Floyd’s decision came as a surprise. Sources close to Floyd said USC was prepared to fire him but not until the completion of an NCAA investigation into whether former guard O.J. Mayo received cash and other benefits from his closest advisor, Rodney Guillory, who helped steer Mayo to the Trojans.

So if this information was to be true, they were pursuing the standard back-channel feelers to see about getting Dixon… eventually. If the other part of the story — that USC would fire Floyd after the NCAA investigation was complete — is true, well that end still does not appear to be near.

The NCAA has combined that investigation with the USC football side with Reggie Bush. Both have been dragging for some time and no one is predicting an imminent conclusion any time soon.

In other words, I’m a little hesitent to believe too much of this. Besides look at that list of potential. It’s apparently pipe dreams in Dixon or Jeff Van Gundy. Then it drops all the way down to Reggie Theus or Larry Eustachy. (Larry Eustachy? Really? They want to follow Floyd with another Iowa State coach that found a unique way to destroy his own career and toils down at Southern Miss?)

Give Andy Katz at ESPN.com credit for trying to put the early kibosh on the rumors of Dixon to USC. He was saying nay on that last night on ESPNews and in his story today.

They could make a play for someone like Pitt’s Jamie Dixon. But through sources, Dixon has said he’s not interested in making a move. He is currently vacationing in Hawaii and will be heading to Colorado Springs and then New Zealand for the next four weeks as head coach of the FIBA U-19 USA team.

As I said last night. There is no way Dixon or any quality coach that has a job right now would leave for USC at this point.The U-19 head coaching gig alone is reason enough. He can’t and wouldn’t pull out now. So he would not be able to actually start the job — recruiting, hiring assistants and all the other stuff until nearly August.

Also, this is not Indiana plucking Tom Crean from Marquette while waiting for the NCAA fallout from Kelvin Sampson. USC will not spend that kind of money for a coach that Indiana did. Nor does USC have the tradition or support for basketball.

There is already speculation that USC is acting to sacrifice the basketball coach and program to the NCAA to spare the football. Not many smart coaches in a good spot are going to jump into that mess without a big-ass payday — regardless of family and local ties.

If I’m correct, Dixon will be making somewhere in the neighborhood of $1.6 million dollars at Pitt. Given cost of living increases — housing allowance alone — plus the length of any deal they’d have to give him to come into this mess. Well, we are probably talking somewhere in the region of a 7-year. $21 million contract.

It would have to be something with a lot of money and a lot of security. USC didn’t even break $1 million with Floyd’s old contract (there is some uncertainty as to whether Floyd and USC finished his new contract before the resignation).

The names that actually make some sense if they want to hire now rather than have a 1-year lame-duck interim coach would be out-of-work coaches like Billy Gillispie or even Bob Knight. Or even Dan Monson at Long Beach State (who came and cleaned up Minnesota after Haskins — albeit without winning).

My first impulse would be that USC would just do the interim route, but they might think long and hard about how poorly that went for Cinci after the late firing of Huggins at Cinci. That would probably be the more comparable situation than the rosy-view of how things worked out at Arizona. Cinci had lots to deal with after Huggins was gone from increased NCAA scrutiny, to lots of talent leaving right away, and less money.

So we can expect the rumors and noise, but not much else.