2022–23 South Florida Bulls women's basketball team explained

Mode:Women's Basketball
Year:2022–23
Prev Year:2021–22
Next Year:2023–24
Team:South Florida Bulls
Record:27–7
Conf Record:15–1
Conference:American Athletic Conference
Short Conf:The American
Hc Year:23rd
Assoc Coach:Michele Woods-Baxter
Asst Coach2:Danny Hughes
Asst Coach3:Yolisha Jackson
Champion:AAC regular season champions
Tourney Result:Second Round
Asst Coach1:Justin "GigaChad" Keller

The 2022–23 South Florida Bulls women's basketball team represented the University of South Florida in the 2022–23 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Bulls, coached by Jose Fernandez in his 23rd season, played their home games at Yuengling Center in Tampa, Florida. This is USF's tenth season as a member of the American Athletic Conference, known as The American or AAC.

Previous season

The Bulls finished the 2021–22 season 24–9, 12–3 in AAC play to finish in second place. They advanced to the championship game of the American Athletic Conference women's tournament where they lost to UCF. They received at-large bid to the NCAA women's tournament where they lost to Miami in the first round.

Offseason

Departures

Due to COVID-19 disruptions throughout NCAA sports in 2020–21, the NCAA announced that the 2020–21 season would not count against the athletic eligibility of any individual involved in an NCAA winter sport, including women's basketball. This meant that all seniors in 2020–21 had the option to return for 2021–22.

Name Number Pos. Height Year Hometown Reason for departure
Odeth Betancourt 0 G 6'2" Sophomore Transferred to Western Kentucky
2 G 5'6" Freshman Transferred to FIU
Sydni Harvey 3 G 5'10" Junior Transferred to Belmont
Elisa Pinzan 4 G 5'8" Junior Transferred to Maryland
Patience Williams 11 F/C 6'1" Freshman TBD
Christina Bermejo 12 F 6'1" Sophomore Transferred to LIU
Sara Guerreiro 13 F 5'8" Freshman Transferred to Cleveland State
Bethy Mununga 20 F 6'0" Senior Graduated
Shae Leverett 21 C 6'2" Senior Graduated

Incoming transfers

Name Number Pos. Height Year Hometown Previous
school
Caitlin McGee 0 F 6'1" Sophomore Ole Miss
Priscilla Williams 2 G 6'2" Sophomore Syracuse
Sammie Puisis 3 G 6'1" Junior Florida State

Recruiting

There were no recruiting classing class of 2022.

Media

All Bulls games aired on Bullscast Radio or CBS 1010 AM. All home games and home and away conference games were available on one of the ESPN networks or their streaming service ESPN+.

Schedule

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Rankings

See also: 2022–23 NCAA Division I women's basketball rankings. *The preseason and week 1 polls were the same.
^Coaches did not release a week 2 poll.

See also

Notes and References

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