Friday, December 2
South Florida 70, #22/18 Texas 65 - Box Score

AUSTIN, Texas — After two straight losses to Top 25 opponents the University of South Florida women's basketball team came into the University of Texas's Moody Center and defeated the No. 22/18-ranked Longhorns a 70-65 in front of a raucous 5,021 Texas faithful. The Bulls improve to 8-2 on the year while the Longhorns fall to 3-4.
 
The win marks the first against a member of the Top 25 since the Bulls defeated No. 7/5 Stanford, 57-54, in the Baha Mar Pink Flamingo Championship in Nassau, Bahamas on Nov. 26, 2021.
 
Sammie Puisis fell one point shy of tying her career high with a game-high 25 points while Elena Tsineke added 22 points and Dulcy Fankam Mendjiadeu chipped in with 13 points and 10 rebounds.
 
South Florida led by as many as 11 points in the game, using a 13-2 run to take a 41-32 lead with just under 90 seconds left in the half.
 
Texas, however, came back in the third quarter and cut the Bulls' lead to three, 45-42, but could not get any closer through 30 minutes of play. The Longhorns eventually went back on top in the fourth, 57-56, with 6:23 left in the contest on a layup by Shaylee Gonzales, and took the lead three more times, but each time the Bulls answered. Tsineke gave South Florida the lead for good with a driving layup in the lane with just over one minute left and never looked back.