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No. 22/20 USF visits No. 12 Louisville on Big Monday

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DATE: FEB. 14, 2016

 

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No. 22/20 USF visits No. 12 Louisville on Big Monday

 

TAMPA, FEB. 14, 2016 – The No. 22/20 University of South Florida women’s basketball team will take a break from American Athletic Conference action for a Top-25 showdown in Kentucky. The Bulls visit No. 12 Louisville on Monday, Feb. 15 at the KFC Yum! Center in their fourth contest against a Top-15 team this season. Game time is set for 9 p.m. on ESPN2 as apart of the networks Big Monday programming.

 

USF (18-6, 11-3 The American) picked up a 78-51 victory at Cincinnati on Friday at Fifth Third Arena, behind a 22-point effort from senior guard Courtney Williams (Folkston, Ga.).  Kitija Laksa (Riga, Latvia) added 15 points, while Alisia Jenkins (Statesboro, Ga.) grabbed a game-high 11 rebounds.

 

The Bulls will face a ranked opponent for the fourth time this season, but are still searching for their first win. The last time USF upset a ranked opponent on the road was Feb. 20, 2013 at Louisville. The Bulls upset No. 11/12 Louisville, 73-62, Williams and Jenkins freshman season. Jenkins scored eight points and grabbed two rebounds as a starter, while Williams added five points and three rebounds off the bench.

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We play a style that is finesse (Euroball) over physical. If you're going to play like that, you have to screen better and hit shots. This program either has to get bigger and more physical or  screen

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I consider beating a ranked Oklahoma state by 22 points a quality win. Other than that I will agree with you.

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BIG MONDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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I am thinking this is almost like a play-in game for the NCAA Tourney. Team has 3 bad losses and really no quality wins. If they lose this game plus, most assuredly another loss vs UCONN, the team drops out out of the top 25. 

They are on the bubble now. I'm not sure they have the resume to be in the tourney this year. 

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1 hour ago, usfgrad84 said:

I am thinking this is almost like a play-in game for the NCAA Tourney. Team has 3 bad losses and really no quality wins. If they lose this game plus, most assuredly another loss vs UCONN, the team drops out out of the top 25. 

They are on the bubble now. I'm not sure they have the resume to be in the tourney this year. 

I consider beating a ranked Oklahoma state by 22 points a quality win. Other than that I will agree with you.

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8 minutes ago, Ned A Starr said:

IMO, losses to UCONN and UL won't knock us out of the tourney.

Agreed; Road losses to top 25 teams rarely hurt a team's profile, and we've never been blown out this season by mortal (non-UConn) teams (sans perhaps MSU back in December); all of the losses could have been wins, and outside of Memphis all of them were against teams with winning records.

Now, does a loss to Louisville and UConn (twice, including AAC tourney) put us at an 7-10 seed in USC's bracket? Probably.

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1 hour ago, usfgrad84 said:

I am thinking this is almost like a play-in game for the NCAA Tourney. Team has 3 bad losses and really no quality wins. If they lose this game plus, most assuredly another loss vs UCONN, the team drops out out of the top 25. 

They are on the bubble now. I'm not sure they have the resume to be in the tourney this year. 

IMHO, Memphis was the only "bad loss"; the rest were on the road to teams that are on the tournament bubble (or should be) and UConn, a team that is the equivalent of Alabama football in FCS.

The game that could very well knock us out of the tournament is a week from Wednesday, a mid-week road matchup against a 10-15 Tulsa squad we haven't seen this season. They lose there, and you might as well order the "2016 WNIT" banner that night.

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A ranked team that loses to an unranked team is a bad loss.  Especially when there are no quality wins. 

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3 minutes ago, usfgrad84 said:

A ranked team that loses to an unranked team is a bad loss.  Especially when there are no quality wins. 

Oklahoma State

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To compare to last year, the worst team to get an at-large bid, RPI-wise, was Miami, who went 19-13 with the #41 SOS; USF is currently 18-6 with the #67 SOS.

They need to win every game but Louisville and UConn, and make at least a semi-finals appearance to lock down the bid. Otherwise they'll be on the edge of their seats on Selection Monday.

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