Bulls Face Tulane in Final Road Game
Matchup: USF (18-11, 7-9) vs. Tulane (4-24, 0-16)
Date: Wednesday, March 6
Time: 8 p.m. EST
Location: New Orleans, La. | Devlin Fieldhouse
TV: ESPN3 (Tim Grubbs, Stan Lewter)
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TAMPA, MARCH 5, 2019 – The USF men's basketball team takes to the road for the final time in the regular season Wednesday at 8 p.m. (EST) when the Bulls travel to New Orleans, La., for a matchup with Tulane at Devlin Fieldhouse.
USF (18-11, 7-9) will aim for the season sweep of the Green Wave after turning in a 66-48 victory over Tulane earlier this season in Tampa. In that game, sophomore guard
David Collins (Youngstown, Ohio) finished with 17 points, five rebounds, five assists and five steals to lead a trio of Bulls in double figures. Forward
Alexis Yetna (Paris) registered a double-double with 15 points and 11 rebounds, and
T.J. Lang (Mobile, Ala.) scored 11 points off the bench. Â
Collins finished with a game-high 17 points Sunday against UConn, has scored in double figures in eight straight games and leads USF with 15.1 points per game. Collins adds 1.9 steals per game and has made 153 free throws to rank 27th in the NCAA and fifth on the school's single-season list.
Redshirt junior guard
Laquincy Rideau (West Palm Beach, Fla.) ranks second on the team with 12.9 points per game and leads The American with 2.9 steals per game and 5.5 assists per game. Rideau ranks seventh in the NCAA in steals and is attempting to become the first player in AAC history to lead the league in both assists and steals in the same season.
Yetna scores 12.0 points per game and tops the league with 9.5 rebounds per game to rank 27th in the NCAA. He also paces the conference with 10 double-doubles and is 23rd in the NCAA with 3.3 offensive rebounds per game.
THE OPPONENT
Tulane (4-24, 0-16) is on an 18-game losing streak, winless in conference play and will be in search of its first victory since Dec. 17 against Texas Southern. The Green Wave rank last in the league in scoring (66.6 ppg) and in points allowed (77.2 ppg) and are losing by an average of 10.6 points per game.
Sophomore guard Caleb Daniels leads Tulane with 16.0 points per game and had registered a team-best 20 steals. Redshirt junior Samir Sehic adds 12.1 points per game to go along with a team-high 7.8 rebounds per game. Senior Jordan Cornish nearly averages double figures with 9.9 points per game, and has connected for a team-high 42 three-pointers.
QUOTABLE
Head coach Brian Gregory on the matchup with Tulane:
"When we played them earlier Daniels didn't play and he's an all-league player. He's a tough matchup because he can score in a variety of ways. They post him up, he scores off the dribble and he shoots well from the three. They played very well Sunday against Temple and the game before that they played well on the road at Tulsa. They are playing better because they are healthy again and their younger guys are playing a lot more minutes. It's going to be a difficult game for us going on the road having a quick turnaround, but we're going to have to make sure we respond the right way."
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NOTABLE
• USF is 15-21 against Tulane in the all-time series that dates back to the 1991-92 season.
• USF is two victories away from only the program's fifth 20-win season and first since the 2011-12 season.
• USF is the only school in the NCAA to have its conference leader in rebounds, assists and steals.
• USF redshirt freshman
Alexis Yetna has more double-doubles (10) than six teams in The American.
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Laquincy Rideau ranks seventh in the NCAA and first in The American with 2.9 steals per game.Â
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Alexis Yetna leads The American and ranks 29th in the NCAA with 9.5 rebounds per game.
• USF is ranked ninth in the NCAA and second in The American with a plus-7.3 rebounding margin.
• USF has taken the most free throw attempts in the NCAA (808) and has made the 10th-most in the NCAA (518).
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Laquincy Rideau looks to become the first player in AAC history to lead in assists and steals in the same season.
• USF junior forward
Antun Maricevic is shooting 72.7 percent (16-for-22) from the field over his last four games.Â
• USF is 17 three-pointers away from setting a new single-season school record with 212.
About USF Men's Basketball
The USF men's basketball team is led by head coach Brian Gregory. On March 22, 2017, Gregory was introduced as the 10th head coach in program history. He previously led programs at Georgia Tech (2011-16) and Dayton (2003-11). Gregory spent nearly a decade as an assistant coach under Michigan State's Hall of Fame head coach Tom Izzo and helped the Spartans win the 2000 NCAA National Championship. Gregory brings nearly 250 career head coaching wins and six postseason appearances, including the 2010 NIT Championship, to Tampa. In his first season at the helm of the Bulls, Gregory led the team to its first 10-plus win season since 2013-14.Â
USF has retired three numbers in its 47-year history: Chucky Atkins (12), Charlie Bradley (30) and Radenko Dobras (31). The Bulls have earned three NCAA tournament bids and appeared in the NIT eight times.
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