Bulls to Host Tulane for Family Day
Matchup:USF Bulls (10-7, 1-2 AAC) vs. RV Tulane Green Wave (13-3, 3-0 AAC)
Date: Saturday Jan. 19, 2019
Time: 1p.m. ET
Location: Tampa, Fla., Yuengling Center
Broadcast:American Digital Network (Lincoln Rose & Angela Beck & Despina Barton)
Radio: Bulls Unlimited& AM 820, (
Darek Sharp & Brigid Merenda)
Live Stats: StatBroadcast
Twitter Updates:@USFWBB
TAMPA, Fla. Jan. 18, 2019 – USF women's basketball will face off against Tulane on Saturday afternoon at the Yuengling Center at 1 p.m. The game will feature a Family Day promotion where kids 12 and younger will enjoy free admission.
A bounce house, face painting and sign making will also be available to Bulls fans. The USF women's basketball team will also show their support for We Back Pat, an Alzheimer's charity organization in memory of legendary women's basketball coach Pat Summit. Basketball teams across the country don purple and orange in support of the search for a cure to the disease, and USF will warmup in special shooting shirts while USF staff suits up in purple and orange.
The women's basketball game is part of a loaded day for USF athletics, in a quadruple-header of sorts with men's and women's tennis hosting matches at 2 p.m. and 10 a.m. respectively. USF men's basketball hosts No. 21 Houston that evening at 8 p.m.
USF (10-7, 1-2 AAC) is coming off of a 63-46 loss at No. 3/3 UConn last weekend. Adversity struck the Bulls this season, who are without five players for Saturday's game, including three Bulls out for the season.
Kitija Laksa (Riga, Latvia), USF's returning leading scorer for the 2018-19 campaign and player of the year candidate, suffered a season-ending injury on Nov. 15.
Beatriz Jordao (Pombal, Portugal), after a promising start, will forego the remainder of her freshman campaign after a nagging injury won out to end 2018. Freshman
Silvia Serrat (Banyoles, Spain) is sidelined with a ACL/meniscus tear suffered in the offseason. Senior
Laura Ferreira (Lisboa, Portugal) will miss the action due to illness and junior
Alyssa Rader (Thornton, Colo.) is out with a concussion.
The Bulls look to freshman
Sydni Harvey (Nashville, Tenn.) to lead USF in scoring and to sophomore
Enna Pehadzic (Horsens, Denmark) to carry a bulk of the scoring while USF is limited to eight remaining active players.
Harvey's Hot from the Charity Stripe
Sydni Harvey (Nashville, Tenn.) is hitting 90.3 percent of her shots from the free-throw line, a conference leading statistic. She has made 56-of-62 free throws in 16 games this season.
Boards for the Bulls
Rebounding has been the secret weapon for the Bulls, who are out-performing opponents on the boards by 12.5 per game, good enough for sixth nationally. USF out-rebounded UConn in the setback last weekend by 16.
The Opponent
Tulane Green Wave (receiving votes)
Tulane enters the contest with a 13-3 mark, and a 3-1 American Athletic Conference record. Tulane's lone conference loss comes at the hands of No. 3/2 UConn by a 75-33 margin. USF last saw UConn on Sunday afternoon and fell 46-63.
The Green Wave are led by Krystal Freeman with 12.8 points per game, she also leads Tulane on the boards with 6.9 rebounds per game. No other Tulane players average double figure scoring, and nine players have seen action in all 17 contests. Tulane owns wins over LSU (56-54), Washington (63-51) and FAU (88-45). They sit third in the current conference standings.
Notable
- Rebounding is a key for USF, who is out-performing opponents on the boards by 12.5, a good enough margin for sixth nationally and conference-leading statistic.
- Sydni Harvey leads the conference in free-throw percentage with 90.3 percent.
- Luize Septe joined the roster on Dec. 30, 2018, a 5-foot-11 freshma wing from Ventspils, Latvia. She has since started two consecutive games.
- The Bulls are without Silvia Serrat, Kitija Laksa, Beatriz Jordao, Laura Ferreira and Alyssa Rader in the contest against Tulane. The inactive Bulls average over 50 points this season.
- USF owns an 8-1 conference record at home, falling only to UCF when USF was without three of its key starters.
Follow the Action
The game will be broadcast live on the American Digital Network with Lincoln Rose and Angela Beck analyzing the action. Fans can follow the action with live radio on Bulls Unlimited AM 820 with
Darek Sharp and Brigid Merenda on the call. Live stats will be available on StatBroadcast and on GoUSFBulls.com
Up Next
USF remains home to take on Memphis in a midweek matchup on Jan. 23 at 7 p.m.
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USF notched its sixth consecutive 20-win season and fourth straight NCAA Tournament appearance in 2017-18. It marked the ninth 20-win season in program history, with head coach Jose Fernandez at the helm for all nine. The Bulls posted 26 wins in 2017-18, just shy of the program record of 27 set in 2008-09 and 2014-15.
USF has made 14 postseason tournament appearances and had six NCAA Tournament berths in head coach Jose Fernandez's 18 seasons. The all-time winningest coach in program history, Fernandez has guided USF to nine 20-win seasons, two WNIT final four appearances, the 2009 WNIT championship and won more than 300 games.
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