The second-seeded Bulls will face the winner of the Memphis-East Carolina first-round game on March 8 at 7 p.m. ET.
TAMPA (March 2, 2022) — The University of South Florida has earned the No. 2 in the 2022 Air Force Reserve American Athletic Conference Women’s Basketball Championship. The Bulls and 10 other members of The American will square off in this season’s women’s basketball championship on March 7-10 at Dickies Arena in Fort Worth.
South Florida will get a first-round bye and begin play in the quarterfinals on Tuesday, March 8 at 7 p.m. ET (ESPN+) against the winner of the game between the No. 7-seed Memphis and 10th-seeded East Carolina.
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The Bulls finished the regular season with a 22-7 overall record and a 12-3 slate in The American. The Bulls are 15-7 all-time in the AAC Tournament and have advanced to at least the semifinal round in each of the previous eight tournaments and to the championship game five times (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2021). South Florida won its first-ever American Athletic Conference regular-season and tournament titles last season.
Below is the complete 2022 Air Force Reserve American Athletic Conference tournament schedule.
First Round – Monday, March 7
Game 1 (ESPN+) No. 9 Wichita State vs. No. 8 Tulsa – 2 p.m. ET
Game 2 (ESPN+) No. 10 East Carolina vs. No. 7 Memphis – 4 p.m. ET
Game 3 (ESPN+) No. 11 Cincinnati vs. No. 6 Houston – 6 p.m. ET
Quarterfinals – Tuesday, March 8
Game 4 (ESPN+) 8/9 winner vs. No. 1 UCF – 1 p.m. ET
Game 5 (ESPN+) No. 5 SMU vs. No. 4 Temple – 3 p.m. ET
Game 6 (ESPN+) 7/10 winner vs. No. 2 South Florida – 7 p.m. ET
Game 7 (ESPN+) 6/11 winner vs. No. 3 Tulane – 9 p.m. ET
Semifinals – Wednesday, March 9
Game 8 (ESPN+) Game 4 winner vs. Game 5 winner – 5 p.m. ET
Game 9 (ESPN+) Game 6 winner vs. Game 7 winner – 7 p.m. ET
Final – Thursday, March 10
Game 10 (ESPNU) Semifinal winners – 9 p.m. ET
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USF recorded its best season in program history during the 2020-21 campaign, all while navigating the unpredictable COVID-19 landscape. In doing so, the Bulls won their first-ever American Athletic Conference regular-season and tournament titles, and posted their highest ranking in the Associated Press Top25 poll – reaching as high as No. 12 – and made their ninth straight postseason appearance, and sixth NCAA appearance in the last 10 years.
USF has made 16 postseason tournament appearances and had seven NCAA Tournament berths in head coach Jose Fernandez’s 21 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 nearly 400 career games. For his efforts on the sideline during the 2020-21 season, Fernandez was named a finalist for the WBCA and semifinalist for the Naismith National Coach of the Year Awards. He was also tabbed the 2021 American Athletic Conference Coach of the Year.
The Bulls posted a 19-4 record and had five players, during the 2020-21 campaign, the Bulls had five players recognized by The American for impressive seasons, including Elisa Pinzan (Most Improved Player, All-Conference Second Team), Maria Alvarez (Co-Sixth Player of the Year), Bethy Mununga (All-Conference First Team), Elena Tsineke (All-Conference First Team), and Sydni Harvey (All-Conference Third Team).
In addition, Harvey was named the American Athletic Conference Tournament Most Outstanding Player and to the All-Tournament Team, while Mununga and Tsineke were also All-Tournament selections.
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