Bulls Picked Second in American Preseason Coaches’ Poll; Collins and Nelson Earn All-Conference Honors

TAMPA, Fla., Oct. 9, 2025 – The University of South Florida males’s basketball staff has been picked to complete second within the 2025-26 American Conference Preseason Coaches’ Poll, launched Thursday by the league workplace.
 
The Bulls acquired two first-place votes and totaled 128 factors, trailing solely preseason favourite Memphis (143 factors, 11 first-place votes). Tulane (122 factors), UAB (98) and Wichita State (93) rounded out the league’s prime 5 within the ballot.
 
Head coach Bryan Hodgson will debut as South Florida’s new head coach this season, bringing in a top-30 recruiting class in his first offseason with this system. The Bulls have 13 new gamers led by preseason all-conference picks Daimion Collins and Izaiyah Nelson, each acknowledged on the Preseason American Conference Second Team.
 
Collins, a redshirt senior ahead, averaged 8.0 factors, 4.3 rebounds, and 1.6 blocks per sport final season for LSU. Nelson, a senior ahead, emerged as one in every of Arkansas State’s best entrance courtroom scorers beneath Hodgson, averaging 10.6 factors and eight.9 rebounds whereas taking pictures 58.8 % from the sphere final 12 months.
 
The full preseason ballot and honors are listed beneath.
 
2025-26 American Conference Preseason Coaches’ Poll

1. Memphis (11) – 143
2. South Florida (2) – 128
3. Tulane – 122
4. UAB – 98
5. Wichita State – 93
6. Florida Atlantic – 80
7. North Texas – 77
8. Tulsa – 74
9. Temple – 65
10. East Carolina – 53
11. UTSA – 32
12. Rice – 27
13. Charlotte – 22
    
    (First-place votes in parentheses)

 
Preseason All-Conference Second Team:
Daimion Collins, R-Sr., F, South Florida
Izaiyah Nelson, Sr., F, South Florida

For full info, go to the American Conference’s site.

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About USF Men’s Basketball

South Florida males’s basketball named Bryan Hodgson, 37, as this system’s twelfth head coach on March 24, 2025. Hodgson got here to Tampa from Arkansas State, the place he led this system to back-to-back 20-win seasons and its first postseason look since 1999 in his two seasons on the helm.

 

The program, coming into its 55^th season in 2025-26, most not too long ago received the American Athletic Conference common season championship in 2023-24 and has made 13 postseason appearances, together with three NCAA Tournaments, 9 NITs, and a CBI championship in 2019. Three former Bulls – Chucky Atkins, Charlie Bradley, and Rodenko Dobras – have had their jerseys retired and are members of the USF Athletic Hall of Fame. The Bulls play their house video games on the 10,400-seat Yuengling Center on the USF Tampa campus.

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