Bulls open conference play at Yuengling Center on New Year’s Day
TAMPA (September 30, 2021) – The American Athletic Conference announced on Thursday the complete league schedule for the upcoming 2021-22 men’s basketball campaign, the fifth for head coach Brian Gregory.
The 2020-21 USF men’s basketball season presented by Tampa General Hospital opens on Tues., Nov. 9 at the Yuengling Center when the Bulls take on Bethune-Cookman. Tip times for most games on the schedule will be announced at a later date.
The Bulls open conference play at home on New Year’s Day (Sat., Jan. 1) against ECU. That homestand will conclude on Wed., Jan. 5 when USF takes on defending AAC tournament champion and 2021 NCAA Final Four participant Houston in Yuengling Center.
USF will travel to Tulane (Sat., Jan. 8) for an ESPNU broadcast game and also face SMU (Wed., Jan. 12) on the road before returning home to host rival UCF in a War On I-4 matchup on Sat., Jan. 15. The Bulls are slated to have five conference games broadcast on ESPN linear networks while the rest of the schedule will be broadcast on ESPN+.
USF will then return to the road for a rematch with Houston on Tue., Jan. 18 before hosting Temple (Sat., Jan. 22) in an ESPNU broadcast and SMU (Wed., Jan. 26) in Tampa. USF closes the month of January at Tulsa on Sat., Jan. 29 before another War on I-4 showdown at UCF on Thur., Feb. 3.
Home games against Cincinnati (Wed., Feb. 9) and Tulane (Tue., Feb. 15) will be separated by a road contest at Wichita State (Sat., Feb. 12) which will be televised on ESPNU. The Tulane game on February 15 will mark the first of back-to-back home games for USF as Tulsa also visits Tampa on Sat., Feb. 19 for an ESPNU televised contest.
Next will be two straight road contests at ECU (Wed., Feb. 23) and Cincinnati (Sat., Feb. 26) before the Bulls close out the final month of the regular season at home against Memphis on Thur., March 3 in a game that will air on either ESPN2 or ESPNU and then a regular-season finale at Temple on Sun., March 6.
USF recently announced its complete non-conference schedule which features eight home games, including a marquee matchup with Auburn at Amalie Arena, a premier game against Florida in the Orange Bowl Classic in Sunrise, Fla. and a three-game tournament in Hawai’i.
The Bulls’ complete 2021-22 schedule is comprised of 31 games with 17 being played in Tampa. The Yuengling Center will once again be fully open to fans and operate at 100 percent capacity this season.
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About USF Men’s Basketball
The USF men’s basketball team is led by head coach Brian Gregory, who enters his fifth season in 2021-22. Gregory was introduced as the 10th head coach in program history in March of 2017 after previously leading 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 with Dayton. 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 48-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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