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Harris Endures Injury To Reach Cusp Of USF Career Starts Record

It's the USF football equivalent of Willis Reed answering the bell for the New York Knicks in Game 7, Jack Youngblood playing the Super Bowl with a broken leg for the Rams and Kirk Gibson limping around the bases after a monumental World Series home run for the Dodgers.

South Florida Bulls during a football game against the Southern Methodist University Mustangs at Gerald J. Ford Stadium on October 2, 2021. (Mary Holt/South Florida Athletics)
Demetris Harris is set to make his record-tying 50th career start on Saturday.

Bulls senior guard Demetris Harris, affectionately known as "Meech'' to everyone in the program, will start his 50th career game Saturday afternoon when USF (1-7, 0-4 AAC) faces the Temple Owls (2-6, 0-4 AAC) at Philadelphia's Lincoln Financial Field.