When USF faces Pacific Saturday night in Stockton, it will be a much different Tiger team the Dons have seen in recent years.
Pacific is one of the most improved teams in the nation and is very much in the WCC title chase. After finishing with a 1-14-1 overall mark and going winless (0-6-1) in WCC play a year ago, the Tigers are 10-3-1 overall and at 2-1-0 in the WCC, are tied with San Diego for second place in the conference standings. After scoring just 10 goals all of last season, the Tigers are the WCC's second-highest scoring team with 25 goals and have yielded just 13 after allowing 35 a year ago.