WHAT: USF Women’s Basketball Media Availability
WHEN: Monday, Oct. 28, 2019
TIME: 12 p.m.-12:30 p.m.
WHERE: Pam & Les Muma Basketball Practice Center
CONTACT: Michael Hogan, Associate Director of Communications, USF; Work: (813) 974-5755; Cell: (813) 469-0616
TAMPA (OCT. 27, 2019) – The USF women’s basketball team will hold a media availability session in the Pam and Les Muma Practice Center on Monday, Oct. 28 from 12-12:30 p.m. prior to practice.
Members of the media can speak to head coach Jose Fernandez and players prior to the Bulls’ practice, which runs from 12:45-3:30 p.m. The media will also be welcome to stay for practice and shoot video footage.
USF, who boasts one of the toughest schedules in the country this season, begins 2019-20 with five of the first six games at the Yuengling Center. The Bulls begin play on Nov. 5, at 5:30 p.m. when it welcomes in-state foe Jacksonville to Tampa, followed by Texas (Nov. 8, 7 p.m.), Howard (Nov. 12, 7 p.m.) and VCU (Nov. 15, 11 a.m.) before heading on the road to face defending NCAA champion Baylor on Nov. 19. USF closes out the six-game stretch at home against Saint Francis (Pa.) on Nov. 24 at 2 p.m.
In all, the Bulls will face 12 teams that advanced to the postseason in 2018-19 – eight in the NCAA Tournament and four in the WNIT – including three of the four No. 1 seeds in the NCAAs; Baylor, Notre Dame (Nov. 30) and Mississippi State (Dec. 19). USF will also face American foe UConn, a No. 2 seed in last year’s NCAA Tournament, twice, at home on Feb. 16 at 2 p.m. and in Hartford on March 2 at 7 p.m.
USF was picked second in the preseason American Athletic Conference Coaches Poll, the league announced on Oct. 14 at its annual media day in Philadelphia. In addition, redshirt junior wing Enna Pehadzic (Horsens, Denmark) was named to the AAC Preseason All-Conference Second Team.
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USF notched its eighth consecutive 19-win season and eighth straight postseason appearance in 2018-19. The Bulls celebrated two all-conference honorees in Enna Pehadzic and Sydni Harvey.
USF has made 15 postseason tournament appearances and had six NCAA Tournament berths in head coach Jose Fernandez’s 19 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.
