{"id":198622,"date":"2026-03-20T02:27:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T02:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/198622\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T02:27:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T02:27:36","slug":"south-floridas-second-half-rally-falls-short-in-ncaa-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/198622\/","title":{"rendered":"South Florida&#8217;s Second Half Rally Falls Short in NCAA Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{f7d2fc95-21f4-4253-a92c-1917d237a086}{120}\" paraid=\"935151169\">BUFFALO, N.Y.\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0South Florida men\u2019s basketball\u2019s comeback attempt\u00a0came up\u00a0just short as the 11th\u00a0seeded Bulls fell to No. 6 Louisville 83-79 in an NCAA Tournament first round game in the East Regional.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Trailing 62-39 with just under 13 minutes remaining, the Bulls forged back. Showing the grit that earned them American Conference regular season and tournament titles this season, South Florida battled back over the final 12+ minutes, cutting its deficit to four points before running out of time.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Joseph Pinion scored\u00a022\u00a0of his career-high\u00a027\u00a0points in the second half,\u00a0making\u00a0four of his five\u00a0made\u00a0three-pointers in the final 20 minutes.\u00a0\u00a0Pinyon also added seven rebounds, six assists and four steals. Isaiyah Nelson scored 22 points and was a rebound shy of a double-double, and Gavin Hightower came off the bench to score 12 points with four rebounds, three assists, and four steals.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>South Florida forced 22 Louisville turnovers and converted them into\u00a022 points. The Bulls took advantage of 18 offensive rebounds, leading to 15 second-chance points.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; BUFFALO, N.Y.\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0South Florida men\u2019s basketball\u2019s comeback attempt\u00a0came up\u00a0just short as the 11th\u00a0seeded Bulls fell&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-198622","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\/198622","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=198622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}