Senior guard Andrea Smith has been lighting up the court for USF’s women’s basketball team this season, and has been a major contributor to the Bulls’ impressive 14-5 record. Together with her twin sister Andrell Smith, who she is older than by just five minutes, she has helped to form a duo that has left opponents struggling to answer.
Smith leads the team in points scored with 337, an average of 17.7 per game, and has already been named Big East player of the week this season. In high school, she scared off potential recruiters with her “double or nothing” mantra, insisting that any team that offered her a scholarship do the same for her sister. USF obliged, and after two years at community college, Smith thrived under coach Jose Fernandez’s direction.
But Smith would go on to tear the ACL of her left knee in the final game of her junior year, leaving her senior season in doubt. She’s come back better than ever, and is this season’s standout in the quest to attain the second NCAA Tournament berth in USF women’s basketball history.
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