COLUMBUS, Ohio – The College of South Florida’s ladies’s basketball group’s season ended final night time, as they misplaced to the Tennessee Volunteers within the first spherical of the 2025 March Insanity Match.
The Bulls misplaced 101-66 to the Tennessee Volunteers after coming into the sport as underdogs.
COLUMBUS, OHIO – MARCH 21: Sammie Puisis #3 of the South Florida Bulls dribbles the ball in entrance of Alyssa Latham #33 of the Tennessee Volunteers throughout the First Spherical of the 2025 NCAA Ladies’s Basketball Match held on the Jerome Schottenstein
The Bulls have been ranked as a twelfth-seed, and have been pressured to face a fourth-seeded Volunteers group.
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The sport marked Jose Fernandez’s tenth NCAA Match berth in 25 seasons and the nineteenth match look in program historical past.
Jose Fernandez on the sideline of a USF ladies’s basketball sport.
By the numbers:
USF graduate guard Sammie Puisis had 28 factors, with 15 coming from 3-point pictures.
It was the nineteenth sport this season that Puisis made three or extra three-pointers in a sport.
Different notable gamers for the Bulls included senior ahead L’or Mputu, who had 12 factors and recorded double-digit factors for the fourteenth time this season.
The Volunteers have been led by Talaysia Cooper, who had 20 factors, six rebounds, 4 assists, and two steals.
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Quarter breakdown:
The Bulls completed the primary quarter down simply 26-25 to the Volunteers, however they have been outscored 33-9 from the beginning of the second quarter to the 8:43 mark of the third.
The Bulls’ deficit solely grew from there, trailing by as many as 31 factors within the fourth quarter.
Different notable stats:
- USF now holds a report of 5-10 within the NCAA Match.
- Puisis’ 5 three-pointers tied a USF single-game report for many threes made by a participant within the NCAA Match.
- Puisis’ 28 factors are tied for second-most by a Bull in an NCAA Match sport, which Kitja Laksa beforehand held alone.
- The Volunteers led the Bulls in bench factors, 54-3.
- South Florida outrebounded Tennessee, 43-35.
Submit-game press convention:
Massive image view:
In Tampa, preparations stay underway for the NCAA Ladies’s Closing 4 at Amalie Enviornment, scheduled for April 4 and 6.
Tampa is gearing as much as host a report fourth NCAA Ladies’s Closing 4.
The town is internet hosting a number of lead-up occasions to welcome basketball followers nationwide.
“If you happen to haven’t been to our neighborhood in a number of years, you actually received’t acknowledge us. Now we have a compact and walkable footprint splendid for this championship, and we are able to’t wait to roll out the crimson carpet for the student-athletes and followers,” Tampa Bay Sports activities Fee Government Director Rob Higgins advised FOX 13.
The Supply: This story was written with data supplied by the USF Bulls and former FOX 13 reporting
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