Tampa, Fla. – Mar. 5, 2025 – South Florida women's basketball (20-10, 13-4 AAC) heads to the Big Easy to close out the regular season at Tulane on Thursday, Mar. 6. Tipoff is slated for 7:30 p.m. EST and the action will stream on ESPN+ and Bulls Unlimited.
 
SETTING THE STAGE
The Bulls are winners of nine of their last 11 games and are looking for their first win in March. The Green Wave have lost four of their last five contests.
 
THE SOUTH FLORIDA-TULANE SERIES
Thursday is the 53rd meeting between the two squads. USF holds a 32-20 all-time advantage against Tulane. The last clash was a 53-51 Bulls win in Tampa, Fla. (Mar. 2, 2024).
 
BEST OF THE BULLS
The Bulls are led by graduate guard Sammie Puisis (15.3 ppg.) and sophomore guard Vittoria Blasigh (9.9 ppg.) (Puisis is ranked 5th in the nation with 95 total 3-pointers made and 5th nationally in 3FG Made Per Game (3.2 3FGM). Junior forward Carla Brito holds a team best 7.9 rebound average. (6th in the American). Senior forward L'or Mputu has a 7.5 rebound average (7th in the American). The Duo is 2nd the AAC with a combined 15.3 Rebound Average. Graduate guard Mama Dembele is USF's top assister with 5.4 apg. (21st nationally in APG) (163 total assists ranked 18th nationally). In the latest NCAA Nitty Gritties Report, South Florida is ranked 78 NET SOS, 73 in the NET, and 7 in NET NonCon SOS.
 
ADDITIONAL NOTES
Sammie Puisis scored her 1000th career point at USF during her last game against ECU, which was the 65th game of her South Florida career. The only other players this century to reach that milestone with the Bulls in as few of games are Jessica Dickson (57), Andrea Smith (61) and Kitija Laksa (63). Mama Dembele has recorded multiple steals in seven straight games, the longest streak by a USF player since Inga Orekhova had a seven-game run in January 2013. She has 22 total games this season with at least two steals, the most by a Bull since Jazmine Sepulveda in 2008-09 (23). L'or Mputu has recorded at least a 50.0 field-goal percentage and four rebounds in 21 straight games, the longest active streak in Division I. That is also the longest streak in AAC history and the longest by any USF player this century. The Bulls are one of three AAC teams that have not had a double-digit loss in conference play this season, along with North Texas and Temple. The only season this century that USF finished regular-season conference play without such a loss was in 2022-23. USF is 23-1 against Tulane since the start of 2014-15, its most wins against any opponent over that time frame.
 
TICKETS
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ABOUT SOUTH FLORIDA WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
South Florida women's basketball has made 18 postseason tournament appearances and had nine NCAA Tournament berths in head coach Jose Fernandez's 25 seasons. The all-time winningest coach in program history, Fernandez has guided the Bulls to 11 20-win seasons, two WNIT final four appearances, the 2008-09 WNIT championship, has won over 450 career games, and is the all-time wins leader in the American Athletic Conference.