TAMPA (August 9, 2022) – University of South Florida men's basketball head coach Brian Gregory has announced the non-conference schedule for the Bulls' upcoming 2022-23 season. The full slate includes 13 games, including nine at the Yuengling Center in Tampa.
Game times and broadcast information for the non-conference schedule will be released at a later date.
South Florida will unofficially begin its campaign at home with an exhibition game against the University of Tampa on Tuesday, November 1.
The non-conference schedule officially opens with a home game against Southeast Missouri State on Monday, November 7. The Bulls will then travel to Auburn for a road game on Friday, November 11.
USF played nationally-ranked Auburn to a tight 58-52 contest at Amalie Arena last season before the Tigers went on to spend time as the No. 1-ranked team in the nation and advance to the second round of the NCAA Tournament.
USF will host Stetson on November 14th before taking part in the 2022 Sunshine Slam. The first contest of that event will be hosted at the Yuengling Center on November 17th before the Bulls travel to Daytona Beach for games on November 21-22 against opponents yet to be determined at the Ocean Center.
A three-game homestand begins on either November 25th or 26th (TBD based on football schedule) against St. Francis (N.Y.), and includes games against UMass on November 29th and Charleston Southern on December 2nd.
The Bulls will travel to Northern Iowa for a road tilt on December 12th before returning home to wrap up their non-conference slate. USF will host Dartmouth on December 16th, Hofstra on December 19th and NJIT on December 22nd.
South Florida's full conference schedule is expected to be announced in the coming weeks. The American Athletic Conference previously released the league's home and away opponents for the 2022-23 season. The Bulls will play home and away contests with UCF, Cincinnati, ECU, Memphis SMU, Temple, Tulsa and Wichita State. USF will host Tulane in a home-only contest and travel to Houston for a road-only game.
South Florida returns 10 players from its 2021-22 roster, including Jamir Chaplin, Russel Tchewa, Corey Walker Jr., Bay area native Serrel Smith Jr., along with Sam Hines Jr. and Trey Moss. Chaplin is the Bulls' leading returning scorer (8.7 ppg) while Tcewa and Walker Jr. thrived in the frontcourt over the final months of the season.
Tchewa saw his scoring average rise from 3.3 ppg in 2020-21 to 8.0 in 2021-22 while posting three double-doubles. The center averaged 9.4 points and 5.8 rebounds over 18 AAC games last season and averaged 11.6 points and 7.0 rebounds over the final nine games of the 2021-22 campaign. Walker Jr. also had a strong finish in his first year with the Bulls, averaging 8.3 points, 7.0 rebounds, 1.6 assists, 1.7 blocks and 1.4 steals over the final nine games of the 2021-22 season.
They will be joined this season by transfers Tyler Harris (Memphis), Winter Haven native Keyshawn Bryant (South Carolina) and Selton Miguel (K-State). True freshman Ryan Conwell and Dok Muordar are also new to the USF roster in 2022-23.
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About USF Men's Basketball
The USF men's basketball team is led by head coach Brian Gregory, who enters his sixth season in 2022-23. Gregory was introduced as the 10th head coach in program history in March of 2017 after previously leading 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 owns over 300 career head coaching wins and six postseason appearances, including the 2010 NIT Championship with Dayton. In his second season at the helm of the Bulls, Gregory led the team to the best win turnaround in the NCAA, the most single-season wins in school history and the 2019 College Basketball Invitational championship.
USF has retired three numbers in its history: Chucky Atkins (12), Charlie Bradley (30) and Radenko Dobras (31). The Bulls have earned three NCAA tournament bids, appeared in the NIT eight times and won the 2019 College Basketball Invitational.
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