Immediately after the NCAA selection show ended Sunday night, the phone started ringing. Media inquiries poured in from all over the country for information on the Bobcats. Most of it focused on the Kevin Kuwik story but others were from the players’ hometowns.

Over the past three days, O’Shea has appeared on radio talk shows from Arizona to Florida, from Nashville to Chicago. Kuwik made an appearance on ESPN2’s Cold Pizza Tuesday morning, did radio interviews with numerous stations and met with CBS producers at Thursday’s practice. His story will appear on CBS directly from the New York studio, meaning it will be shown Friday as part of the network’s pregame or halftime coverage.

“We have credentialed over 350 members of the media,” said Kim Melcher, media relations director at the Ohio Valley Conference and media coordinator for the Nashville site. “We have issued passes to national publications like the New York Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram as well as the news operations for all three networks.”

The Bobcats draw against Florida only increased the coverage. State papers such as the Miami Herald, Palm Beach Post and Tampa Tribune all have beat writers based in Gainesville. Nearly all of them wanted to do preview stories on the Bobcats as a team and feature stories on either Kuwik or freshman sensation Leon Williams.

Another interesting twist came with the inclusion of Sonny Troutman in a crowd shot on the cover of Sports Illustrated.

Here are some of the pieces on the Bobcats this week:

On Brian Townsend (Ann Arbor News)

On Kevin Kuwik (St. Petersburg Times)