{"id":180406,"date":"2026-03-06T06:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T06:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/180406\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T06:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T06:54:08","slug":"south-florida-96-89-memphis-mar-5-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/180406\/","title":{"rendered":"South Florida 96-89 Memphis (Mar 5, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MEMPHIS, Tenn. &#8212; \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5313560\/wes-enis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wes Enis<\/a> had 29 points in South Florida&#8217;s 96-89 win against Memphis on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>              Enis shot 9 for 17 (2 for 9 from 3-point range) and 9 of 9 from the free-throw line for the Bulls (22-8, 14-3 American Athletic Conference). <\/p>\n<p>              <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5241690\/josh-omojafo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Josh Omojafo<\/a> shot 7 of 9 from the field, including 3 for 4 from 3-point range, and went 4 for 6 from the line to add 21 points. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/4067423\/isaiah-jones\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Isaiah Jones<\/a> had 14 points and five rebounds. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5101765\/gavin-hightower\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gavin Hightower<\/a> posted 11 points, six rebounds and three steals. It was the eighth straight victory for the Bulls.<\/p>\n<p>              <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5105805\/dug-mcdaniel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dug McDaniel<\/a> finished with 25 points, five rebounds and seven assists for the Tigers (12-18, 7-10). Zachary Davis added 17 points and eight rebounds for Memphis. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5105984\/sincere-parker\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sincere Parker<\/a> also had 14 points and seven rebounds. The loss was the Tigers&#8217; seventh straight.<\/p>\n<p>              South Florida took the lead for good with 2:25 to go in the first half. The score was 51-46 at halftime, with Enis racking up 14 points. South Florida used a 10-0 run in the second half to build a 14-point lead at 74-60 with 10:12 left in the half before finishing off the win.<\/p>\n<p>              &#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>              The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dataskrive.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Data Skrive<\/a> and data from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportradar.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MEMPHIS, Tenn. &#8212; \u2014 Wes Enis had 29 points in South Florida&#8217;s 96-89 win against Memphis on Thursday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-180406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180406","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=180406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}