Tulsa Golden Hurricane (20-3, 8-2 AAC) at South Florida Bulls (15-8, 7-3 AAC)<\/p>\n
Tampa, Florida; Sunday, 12 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: South Florida hosts Tulsa after Izaiyah Nelson scored 25 points in South Florida’s 109-88 victory over the UTSA Roadrunners.<\/p>\n
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The Bulls are 9-2 on their home court. South Florida is 0-3 in games decided by 3 points or fewer.<\/p>\n
The Golden Hurricane are 8-2 in AAC play. Tulsa is fourth in the AAC with 24.5 defensive rebounds per game led by David Green averaging 3.7.<\/p>\n
South Florida scores 90.4 points, 17.8 more per game than the 72.6 Tulsa gives up. Tulsa has shot at a 49.3% clip from the field this season, 6.7 percentage points higher than the 42.6% shooting opponents of South Florida have averaged.<\/p>\n
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The matchup Sunday is the first meeting of the season between the two teams in conference play.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Nelson is averaging 16 points, 9.8 rebounds, 1.5 steals and 1.5 blocks for the Bulls. Wes Enis is averaging 18.2 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Green is scoring 17.0 points per game with 5.0 rebounds and 1.5 assists for the Golden Hurricane. Miles Barnstable is averaging 16.1 points over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Bulls: 7-3, averaging 89.5 points, 38.4 rebounds, 17.9 assists, 7.0 steals and 4.2 blocks per game while shooting 44.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 80.8 points per game.<\/p>\n
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Golden Hurricane: 8-2, averaging 85.0 points, 31.7 rebounds, 13.7 assists, 5.6 steals and 2.6 blocks per game while shooting 50.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 73.6 points.<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tulsa Golden Hurricane (20-3, 8-2 AAC) at South Florida Bulls (15-8, 7-3 AAC) Tampa, Florida; Sunday, 12 p.m.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[71199,28,30,29,71200,64768,31623,807,6782,135,47770],"class_list":{"0":"post-147088","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-david-green","9":"tag-florida","10":"tag-florida-headlines","11":"tag-florida-news","12":"tag-golden-hurricane","13":"tag-izaiyah-nelson","14":"tag-points-per-game","15":"tag-south-florida","16":"tag-south-florida-bulls","17":"tag-tampa","18":"tag-the-bulls"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}