Elisa Pinzan paces the way for the Bulls with a game high 13 points; Leads four players in double digits
Game Details
No. 21/22 USF 63, Tulsa 35
USF (6-1, 3-0 AAC), Tulsa (1-3, 0-3 AAC)
Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2020 | 7 p.m. ET | ESPN+
Tulsa, Okla. | Donald W. Reynolds Center
TULSA, Okla. (AP) (Dec. 30, 2020) — Elisa Pinzan made 3 of 5 from 3-point range and had 13 points to help No. 21/22 South Florida beat Tulsa 63-35 on Wednesday night.
Pinzan, a point guard from Murano, Italy, finished 5 of 9 from the field and had four assists and two steals. The Bulls (6-1, 3-0 American) won their fifth straight and third straight road game to open the conference season. Bethy Mununga (Zellik, Belgium) added 11 points and seven rebounds, and Sydni Harvey (Nashville, Tenn.) and Elena Tsineke (Thessaloniki, Greece) scored 10 apiece.
Shae Leverett (Rincon, Ga.) grabbed a team high eight rebounds in the win.
Wyvette Mayberry scored nine points on 3-of-17 shooting for the Golden Hurricane (1-3, 0-3). Madi Washington also scored nine. Tulsa made 11 of 57 (19%) from the field and 6 of 24 (25%) from 3-point range.
South Florida scored the first seven points and never trailed in the game. The Bulls held Tulsa to 13 first-half points and had their largest lead at the final score. The 28-point margin of victory is the largest since defeating East Carolina by 29 points, 81-52, on Feb. 25, 2020, and the 35 points scored by the Golden Hurricane are the fewest allowed by USF in an American Athletic Conference game since Cincinnati scored 36 points in a 75-36 loss to the Bulls on Feb. 7, 2015.
In addition, the Golden Hurricane’s 13 points in the first 20 minutes, is tied for the 17th fewest allowed by the Bulls in a half in program history.
USF athletics communications contributed to this story.
Key Stat
30-8 – The Bulls flexed their muscles inside against Tulsa, outscoring the Golden Hurricane, 30-8, which included 11 points from Bethy Mununga and six points from Beatriz Jordao (Pombal, Portugal).
Notable
- Wednesday’s starters for the Bulls were: G Elisa Pinzan, G Sydni Harvey, C Beatriz Jordao, W Cristina Bermejo (Sant Just Desvern, Spain), and F Bethy Mununga … The Bulls are 1-0 with this lineup.
- The win over Tulsa improved USF’s record in the all-time series to 8-0.
- USF’s 6-1 start marks just the seventh time during the Jose Fernandez coaching era (since the 2000-01 season) that the Bulls have won at least six games through their first seven outings.
- Shae Leverett continues to move up the school’s career rebounding chart … Against Tulsa, Leverett Leverett’s eight rebounds against the Golden Hurricane gave her 565, 18th on USF’s career rebounding list.
- In addition, Wednesday’s game marked Shae Leverett’s 100th career game played with the Bulls.
Up Next
USF returns home to the Yuengling Center to face East Carolina on Saturday at 4 p.m. (ESPN+). The game against the Pirates is the first game of a women’s and men’s doubleheader that will also see the men’s team take on UCF at 7 p.m. The Bulls will then play Wichita State on Wednesday, Jan. 5, at 7 p.m. (ESPN+), also in the Yuengling Center.
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USF notched its ninth consecutive 19-win season and was poised for its ninth straight postseason appearance in 2019-20 before the COVID-19 pandemic forced the end of the college basketball season. The Bulls celebrated two all-conference honorees in Elena Tsineke and Elisa Pinzan. Tsineke was named the American Athletic Conference Freshman of the Year, in addition to The American All-Freshman Team and Third Team All-Conference; while Pinzan was named a Third Team All-Conference selection.
USF has made 15 postseason tournament appearances and had six NCAA Tournament berths in head coach Jose Fernandez’s 20 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 more than 350 games.
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