Caleb Murphy Wins Second Straight AAC Freshman of the Week Award

IRVING, Texas, JAN. 4, 2021 – University of South Florida guard Caleb Murphy earned American Athletic Conference Freshman of the Week honors for the second consecutive week, the league office announced on Monday.

Murphy (Youngstown, Ohio) averaged 13.5 points, 2.5 rebounds, 2.0 assists and 1.5 steals per game in helping USF to a 1-1 week, as the Bulls narrowly fell 58-57 at Memphis on Tuesday before responding with a 68-61 home victory over UCF Saturday in the War on I-4.

In just his second true road game of his career, Murphy erupted for a career-high 20 points and added four rebounds, three assists and two steals Tuesday at Memphis. He finished 9-for-18 from the field against the Tigers and turned in one of the highlight plays of the season with his monster dunk over 6-foot-10 center Moussa Cisse early in the second half.

He ended the week with seven points and one rebound while shooting 42.9 percent from the field Saturday against UCF.

Murphy joins Alexis Yetna (Paris) and Chris Perry as the only three Bulls to win AAC Freshman of the Week honors in back-to-back weeks.

Murphy and the Bulls return to action Wednesday at 4 p.m. with a match-up against Tulsa scheduled to air on ESPN+. 

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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 over 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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