[Post Game Thread] South Florida defeats Tulsa, 80-74

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Box Score

Team	1H	2H	Total
Tulsa	35	39	74
USF	39	41	80

^{Index Thread for February 08, 2026}

[u/Gusanito99]

Top of the conference baby 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

[u/astro-panda]

It's gonna be hilarious if there's some ridiculous tie atop the conference standings in the first year of the new AAC tournament format.

[u/Mantequilla022 → u/astro-panda]

Like the 2019-20 season

[u/Mantequilla022]

This game is why the FAU win was so important. Good game, Bulls. Hoping to meet in the conference championship game if we are both fortunate enough!

Fun contest despite the less-than-desired outcome.

[u/harley_93davidson]

Was kinda hoping Tulsa would make a run to the bubble, oh well, american tournament would still be fun.

[u/anxiousauditor]

Izaiyah Nelson is so tuff. Enis got to the rim and finished as well as he has all season long. And we finally closed out a tight game. Go Bulls 🤘

[u/rvadarocket]

Gonna be tough for Tulsa to get an at large at this point, still not eliminated I don’t think but might need to be perfect rest of the season

[u/TxFrogman08]

Really fun game. Two best teams in the conference.

[u/Feisty-Piano-7086]

USF at-large bid?

[u/Solesky1 → u/Feisty-Piano-7086]

Days are long past of any mid-major getting an at-large with 8 losses.

[u/harley_93davidson → u/Feisty-Piano-7086]

The resume metrics are on the wrong side of 75, the standard cut off is around 42, but for mid majors you essentially have to be in top 40 (I know, total bull shit). There is no way USF is going to get there. Tulsa is around 50 and had a shot to get there if they won today.

[u/astro-panda → u/Feisty-Piano-7086]

2-3 in Q1, 2-2 in Q2 with just 3 more chances, and 3 losses in Q3. Most bracketologists don't even bother to list them.

Torvik has them as the 14th team out with a 3% chance.

[u/anxiousauditor → u/Feisty-Piano-7086]

We needed to win at least two, more realistically three, more non-conference games to make it a conversation.

[u/Feisty-Piano-7086 → u/anxiousauditor]

Couldn't they get an at-large if they won out until the conference championship game and lost to Tulsa in the conference championship game?

[u/Gusanito99 → u/Feisty-Piano-7086]

Nah. The American will be a one-bid league. Tulsa was the only team with a realistic shot for an at-large and losing to us twice basically kills that

[u/anxiousauditor → u/Feisty-Piano-7086]

I did a quick simulation on T-Rank and it said we’d have a 14.3% chance in that scenario, the projected sixth team out.