TAMPA, Fla. (February 29, 2024) – He's the alpha dog of USF basketball, an unquestioned leader, a clutch performer, a forthright spokesman, and a man's man who believes in hard work and no excuses.
Bulls guard Chris Youngblood quickly passes around the credit, saying he's just one component in USF's breakthrough season. And that's true enough.
But when doing a deep dive on why the No. 25-ranked Bulls are 21-5 (14-1 American Athletic Conference), what allowed them to build a program-record 13-game winning streak, and how they've planted the seeds for USF to become a basketball-mad campus, one thing appears certain:
When investigators dust for evidence of the prime suspects in this hoops transformation, they will find Youngblood's fingerprints prominent in every area.