USF Men's Basketball
USF vs. DePaul
BIG EAST Championship
March 9, 2010
Madison Square Garden
Postgame Notes

Team Notes
- USF moves on to face No. 8 seed Georgetown tomorrow at noon. The game will be broadcast on ESPN.

- USF scored all but two of its floor points inside the paint, as the Bulls had 26 field goals all together for 52 points, 50 of which were inside the paint.

- With the win, USF moved to 20-11 on the season, only the third time in 39 years of USF men's basketball that the Bulls have hit the 20-win mark. USF also had 20 wins in 1989-90 and 22 in 1982-83.

- The 20 wins is key, because since 1983 when the automatic qualifier came into play for the NCAA tournament, 123 BIG EAST teams have won 20 games, and 120 of those teams went on to make the NCAA tournament. The teams that did not were West Virginia and Syracuse in 2007 and Syracuse in 2002.

- USF failed to hit a 3-pointer for the first time since March 3, 2004 against UAB, a 61-59 loss at the Sun Dome, which ended a stretch of 182 consecutive games with a least one 3-pointer.

- The win was also the fourth straight win for the Bulls.

- The win was also the first in the BIG EAST Championship for the Bulls after falling to Seton Hall last year in the first round, 68-54, in the Bulls' only other appearance at Madison Square Garden.

- The win moved USF to 4-0 against DePaul in the last two seasons. The Blue Demons still lead the all-time series, 8-15. USF's wins have come in stretches of four with the current four-game streak along with four wins in a row in the series from 2000-03.

- USF has now won 11 more games than last year, marking one of the biggest turnarounds in the country. Heading into this week, USF was one of nine teams in the nation to post 10 or more wins this season than the 2008-09 campaign.

- For the second straight game and only the second time this season, USF's opponent had just one player score in double figures, as DePaul's Will Walker led the way with 20 points. Kemba Walker scored 18 for UConn in the last game of the season for the Bulls, the only Husky player to reach double figures.

- DePaul hit just 29.9 percent for the day (20-of-67), the first time USF held an opponent to under 30 percent shooting since Nov. 29, 2008 against Northeastern (24.1 percent). The last BIG EAST team USF faced to shoot under 30 percent was Rutgers (27.6) on Jan. 24, 2007.

- Every USF player had at least three rebounds, while USF also had nine blocks, including three from Augustus Gilchrist and Toarlyn Fitzpatrick. USF last had eight or more blocks in a game on Nov. 27, 2009 against FAU, when the Bulls also had eight that game.

Individual Notes
- Dominique Jones finished the day 4-of-7 from the free throw line to become USF's all-time single-season leader in free throws made. -He came into the game with 188, and then surpassed Charlie Bradley's record of 189 set in 1982-83 when he hit a free throw at 4:21 of the first half when he got fouled making a fastbreak layup.

- Jones also moved into second all time for the most points scored in a season with 660, surpassing Bradley's 652 points set in 1984-85. Bradley owns the all-time mark with 901 in 1982-83.

- Jones continued his climb up the charts with four steals on the day, which moved him from ninth to seventh on the career steals list. Jones now has 140 and trails Radenko Dobras, who had 152 during his career.

- Jones' 20 points marked the 40th career game he has gone for 20 or more, including his last four straight. He has scored exactly 20 points in each of his last three games. He finished the year first in scoring in BIG EAST games only at 23.2 points per contest.

- Chris Howard posted six assists on the day, taking over fourth place on USF's all-time assist list with 481, passing former Director of Basketball Operations Tommy Tonelli. Chucky Atkins, with 519, would be next up for Howard.