On a lighter note...WOMEN'S BBALL WIN 2nd STRAIGHT!!!

[Bulls 8_va]

Bulls Win Second Straight With 68-51 Victory Over Pitt

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        Release: 01/20/2010

USF 68, Pittsburgh 51

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Senior Janae Stokes knocked down six 3-pointers and had 22 points all together as the USF women's basketball team defeated Pittsburgh, 68-51, Wednesday night at the Sun Dome.

Senior Jessica Lawson added a double-double with 11 points and 11 boards for USF, which won its second BIG EAST game in a row to improve to 2-3 in the league and 11-7 overall. Junior Leondra Doomes-Stephens had 12 points, and junior Sequoyah Griffin also posted 11.

USF hit 51.1 percent from the floor while limiting the Panthers to a 28.8 percent clip. The Bulls also knocked down 9-of-16 3-pointers.

TAMPA - The University of South Florida women's basketball team closed out its short - albeit successful - two-game homestand tonight with an impressive 68-51 win over Pittsburgh at the Sun Dome for its second consecutive BIG EAST win.

Janae Stokes led four players in double figures scoring a game-high 22 points, including 15 in the first half. Leondra Doomes-Stephens added 12 points and Sequoyah Griffin and Jessica Lawson chipped in with 11 points apiece. Lawson would also record her ninth double-double of the season grabbing a game-high 11 rebounds.

The Bulls jumped out of the gate fast scoring all of its points, in the first 7:43 of the game, on three-point field goals to take a 21-11 lead on Janae Stokes' fifth trey of the game with 12:13 left in the first half.

USF (11-7, 2-3 BIG EAST) would keep the Panthers at bay the rest of the first half allowing Pittsburgh to get as close as five points, 23-18, on a lay-up by Chelsea Cole with 8:15 left in the first half.

The Bulls would eventually take a 33-25 lead into the locker room at the break.

USF came out in the second half and didn't let up as they pushed its lead to as many as 19 points twice in the first 10 minutes of the second stanza. The first came on the second of two made free throws with 13:49 left in the game by Lawson, and the second on a lay-up by Lawson with 13:01 left.

Pittsburgh (11-7, 0-5 BIG EAST), however, would make one last push using a 14-3 run from the 13:01 mark to the 4:52 mark when Cole hit the front end of a two shot free throw to cut the Bulls' lead to eight points, 56-48.

Stokes, however would drain her final three-point shot of the game on the next play down court to give USF an 11-point lead, 59-48, and put the Bulls in double figures for the remainder of the game.

On the night the Bulls would shoot 51.1 percent (23-45) from the field and 56.3 percent (9-16) from behind the three-point arc, their best three-point shooting performance since hitting 56 percent (14-25) against Cincinnati on Feb. 28, 2009, and the ninth best percentage in school history for a single game.

USF would also outrebound the Panthers, who were ranked No. 22 last in the ESPN/USA Today Top 25 poll and getting votes in the Associated Press poll, 42-37 for the game.

The Bulls will now hit the road for two straight games starting with a meeting against St. John's on Jan. 23 at 2:30 p.m. in "The World's Most Famous Arena", Madison Square Garden. USF will then have a week off before heading to Ohio to take on Cincinnati on Jan. 30 at noon.

The Bulls will return home on Feb. 2 at 7 p.m. when they Villanova.

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GO BULLS!!!

[Apis Bull]

Good job ladies

[DELdaBull]

Jose always has the girls improving throughout the season. He is a good coach.

[WillieMashBull]

w00t! Any chance they'll make the NCAA tournament?

[Bulls 8_va]

Possibly...they have to keep winning obviously.  And perhaps get a couple marquee wins.  If i remember correctly, thats what kept them out last year.  They were a bubble team.

But...an NIT Championship made up for that. 

GO BULLS!!!

[SattyBull]

Their RPI is currently 87 (and rising), against the 49th ranked SOS.

Only bad thing is that they don't have any "quality wins". Washington is their best win of the season and their RPI is 107.

[South_Florida_Flip]

w00t! Any chance they'll make the NCAA tournament?

Chances are very slim. There aren't any quality wins so far and there aren't many opportunities for one from this point forward.