The native of Greece earns her first AAC weekly honor following the first weekend of conference play.
TAMPA (Jan. 6, 2020) – University of South Florida women’s basketball standout Elena Tsineke was named the American Athletic Conference Freshman of the Week, for the week ending Jan. 5, when the league announced its weekly awards on Monday. It marks Tsineke’s first weekly honor from the conference.
In USFs lone game of the week, the 5-foot-8 guard from Thessaloniki, Greece led the Bulls with a career-high tying 19 points to go along with three rebounds and four assists in USFs 76-68 win over Cincinnati in the American Athletic Conference opener on Sunday. Tsineke was 5-for-10 (50 percent) from the field, 3-for-7 (42.9 percent) from behind the three-point arc, and a perfect 6-for-6 from the free-throw line. Her 19 points marked her eighth double-figure scoring performance in her 10 games played with the Bulls.
On the year, Tsineke leads the team in scoring, averaging 12.8 points per game, while shooting 40 percent (42-for-100) from the field, 35.3 percent (18-for-51) from behind the arc, and 86.7 percent (26-for-30) from the free-throw line.
The Bulls now hit the road for two straight games, beginning at Tulsa on Jan. 12 at 6 p.m. ET (CBS Sports Network), before closing out the back-to-back road tilts at Temple on Jan. 16 at 7 p.m. USF returns to the Yuengling Center on Jan. 19, when it faces UCF in the first of two editions of the War on I-4. Tip-off against the Knights is slated for 3 p.m. (ESPN2).
Fans can catch all the action on Bulls Unlimited, with Darek Sharp on the call, and on ESPN+.
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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.
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