Matchup: USF (3-2) vs. Wofford (2-1)
Date: Saturday, Dec. 12
Time: 2:30 p.m.
Location: Atlanta, Ga. | State Farm Arena
TV: ESPN3 (Kevin Fitzgerald, Mark Wise)
Radio: Bulls Unlimited (Jim Lighthall, Joey Johnston)
TAMPA, FLA., DEC. 11, 2020 – The USF men’s basketball team takes part in its final non-conference game of the season Saturday at 2:30 p.m. when the Bulls travel to Atlanta, Ga., to face Wofford in the Holiday Hoopsgiving quadrupleheader at State Farm Arena.
USF (3-2) turned in a 73-62 victory over Stetson on Tuesday for its second straight win. Senior guard David Collins (Youngstown, Ohio) scored a game-high 18 points and tied his career high with nine rebounds. Collins begins the weekend leading USF with 13.4 points per game while standing third in The American with a .556 three-point field goal percentage.
Justin Brown (Atlanta) added 14 points, four rebounds and made three 3-pointers against the Hatters to move into seventh place on the USF all-time career three-pointers made list. Brown needs four more treys to leapfrog Brian Swift and Derrick Sharp for fifth place.
Redshirt junior Alexis Yetna (Paris) fell just shy of a double-double against Stetson with 13 points and eight rebounds. Yetna also knocked down a pair of triples and currently ranks tops in The American with a .615 three-point field goal percentage. Overall, Yetna averages 10.8 points and 6.8 rebounds per game and is shooting 59.4 percent from the field.
THE OPPONENT
Wofford (2-1) suffered its first loss of the season on Monday when the Terriers fell 77-72 at No. 19 Richmond. Wofford led by five with 2:18 left in the game, but Richmond used a 12-2 run to close the game to earn the victory. Despite the loss, the Terriers average 90.3 points and 47.3 rebounds per game and are shooting 54.5 percent from the field through three games this season.
Senior guard Storm Murphy leads the Wofford offense with 18.7 points per game and has a team-best 11 assists. Sophomore forward Messiah Jones adds 15.3 points and a team-high 9.0 rebounds per game, while senior guard Tray Hollowell also scores in double figures with 14.7 points per game.
NOTABLE
• USF is 1-0 in the all-time series against Wofford that began last season in a non-conference match-up in Tampa.
• USF is 18-6 all-time against schools currently in the Southern Conference and has two straight against the league.
• USF head coach Brian Gregory is one win away from 300 career victories.
• David Collins ranks eighth all-time at USF in scoring with 1,333 career points.
• USF is 10-2 over the last three seasons in the month of December.
• USF is holding opponents to just 28.2 percent from three-point range through five games this season.
• Justin Brown has made the seventh-most career three-pointers in school history with 163.
• David Collins has made 440 career free throws and ranks third all-time in school history and third in AAC history.
• USF is 22-7 since the start of the 2018-19 season when Justin Brown scores in double figures.
• David Collins ranks sixth all-time at USF in career steals with 166.
• USF was picked to finish fifth in The American in the league’s preseason poll.
• Redshirt junior forward Alexis Yetna was named to The American Preseason All-Conference Second Team.
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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 owns nearly 300 career head coaching wins and six postseason appearances, including the 2010 NIT Championship. 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 47-year 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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