USF’s Kristyna Brabencova Tabbed AAC FOW; Sydni Harvey Named to Honor Roll

The Bulls grab Freshman of the Week honors for the second straight week.

TAMPA (Jan. 13, 2020) – University of South Florida women’s basketball standout Kristyna Brabencova was named the American Athletic Conference Freshman of the Week and Sydni Harvey was named to the AAC Honor Roll when the league announced its weekly awards on Monday. It marks the second straight week a USF player earned the league’s top freshman weekly honor, following Elena Tsineke (Thessaloniki, Greece) being tabbed The American Freshman of the Week on Jan. 6.

A wing player from Brno, Czech Republic, Brabencova poured in a career-high 17 points and grabbed five rebounds in USF’s lone game of the week, helping the Bulls to a 68-52 win at Tulsa on Jan. 12. The victory was the Bulls’ first of the season on the road and improved them to 2-0 in The American and 10-6 overall. In addition, Brabencova also had three steals, two assists and two blocked shots in the win. She was 6-for-9 (66.7 percent) from the field, 2-for-3 (66.7 percent) from behind the arc, and a perfect 3-for-3 from the free-throw line. Her three steals tied a career high.

Harvey, a guard from Nashville Tenn., scored a game and season-high 20 points in the win at Tulsa. Harvey was 6-for-11 (54.5 percent) from the field, including a near perfect 6-for-7 (85.7 percent) from behind the three-point arc, and 2-for-2 from the free-throw line. Her six treys made were a career-high, surpassing her previous best of four set four times previously. She also has three rebounds, two steals and an assist in the win.

USF closes out its back-to-back road tilts at Temple on Thursday at 7 p.m. The Bulls will return to the Yuengling Center on Sunday, when they face 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).

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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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