Tulsa Women’s Basketball vs. #20/21 USF

Wednesday, February 24 ~ 7:00 pm Central ~ Donald W. Reynolds Center ~ Tulsa, Okla.

Tickets: Single game tickets are $5 general admission (except UConn and Oklahoma, which are $10 a ticket) and season passes are $50. Tickets can be purchased at the Reynolds Center ticket office or by calling 918.631.GoTU (4688).

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The Coaches
Tulsa: Matilda Mossman (Western Kentucky, 1979), 5th Year
Career Record: 217-172 (13 years)
Record at Tulsa: 70-79 (5 years)

USF: Jose Fernandez (FIU, 1994), 16th Year
Career Record: 280-223 (16 years)
Record at USF: same

Tulsa's Probable Starters
G          00       Kelsee Grovey, 5-8, Sr.-3L, Shawnee, Okla., 10.3 ppg, 3.0 rpg
G          3          Erika Wakefield, 5-4, So.-1L, Moore, Okla., 8.8 ppg, 2.8 rpg, 3.0 apg
G          13       Ashley Hughes, 5-7, Jr.-2L, Sulphur, Okla., 2.5 ppg, 2.0 rpg
G          23       Ashley Clark, 5-11, Sr.-3L, Midwest City, Okla., 13.9 ppg, 6.1 rpg
F          25       Tyjae' Scales, 6-1, Fr.-HS., Houston, Texas, 2.3 ppg, 4.5 rpg

USF's Probable Starters
G          10       Courtney Williams, 5-8, Sr., Folkston, Ga., 21.9 ppg, 9.2 rpg
G          22       Laia Flores, 5-7, So., Mataro, Spain, 2.3 ppg, 1.6 rpg
F          24       Alisia Jenkins, 6-1, Sr., Statesboro, Ga., 10.1 ppg, 12.0 rpg
F          33       Kitija Laksa, 6-0, Fr., Riga, Latvia, 13.4 ppg, 2.5 rpg
C          45       Katelyn Weber, 6-5, Jr., Little Rock, Ark., 2.1 ppg, 2.2 rpg

The Last Game
            Jordyn Holmes had a season-best 14 points, while Ashley Clark added 11, but it wasn't enough as Tulsa dropped a 61-42 decision to Tulane on Saturday afternoon at Devlin Fieldhouse in New Orleans, La.
            Kelsee Grovey and Te'era Williams both had five points, while Tyjae' Scales had five rebounds. Erika Wakefield had a game-best four steals and Clark had two blocks.
            Tulsa shot 32-percent from the field, including just 19-percent from behind the arc, and 33-percent from the free throw line, while Tulane shot 46-percent from the field, including just 14-percent from three-point range, and 58-percent from the charity stripe.
            The Green Wave had a 41-26 lead in rebounds, a 9-7 advantage in assists and a 9-8 lead in steals, while both teams had three blocks. Tulsa had 20 turnovers compared to Tulane's 17.

The Opponent
USF, which is ranked No. 20 in the latest USA Today Coaches poll and No. 21 in the Associated Press poll, has a 19-7 overall record and a 12-3 mark in The American. The Bulls are led by four players averaging double-digit points, including Courtney Williams (21.9), Kitija Laksa (13.4), Laura Ferreira (10.6) and Alisia Jenkins (10.1). Jenkins has a team-best 12.0 rebounds per game, Williams has 23 blocks, and Shalet Stringfield has 97 assists and 35 steals.

Series History
            This is the second meeting between Tulsa and USF. The Bulls, ranked 25th at the time, won the first meeting last year in Tampa, Fla., by a score of 79-46.

The Losses
            In seven of Tulsa's 17 losses, TU has led at some point in the fourth quarter, but weren't able to sustain the advantage. The Hurricane's closest decision came against UCF when Tulsa had the lead with 17-seconds to play. TU also led Indiana State (0:51 left), George Mason (1:33 left), Kansas State (4:46 left), Tulane (5:19 left), Drake (9:32 left) and Oral Roberts (to start the 4th quarter).

2-0 to Start Conference Play
            This was the first time Tulsa went 2-0 in conference play since the 2007-08 season when the Golden Hurricane competed in Conference USA. During that year, TU also won their first game of conference play in overtime against SMU (75-62) and narrowly topped Southern Miss (63-62).

95 Points
            Tulsa's 95 points against UCF (2-13-16) is the third-most in school history and the most since scoring 97 points against Langston University in January 2013.

Grovey is All-Time Three-Points Leader
            Kelsee Grovey entered the UCF game (2-13-16) needing nine three-point baskets to tie the school's all-time record for three-pointers made in a career. She bettered that record by one trey when she knocked down a personal-best and school single-game record 10 three-pointers. Her 10 three's gave her 223 career three-pointers breaking the mark of 222 set by Kara Pongonis-Paslay (2002-06). The previous single-game high for a Tulsa player was seven three-pointers, established three times before, but the latest was in January 2002 by Carla Morrow.
            Grovey now has 224 career three-pointers.

Adding Up
            Tulsa junior Ashley Clark became the ninth women's basketball player in school history to score 1,000 career points and one game later Kelsee Grovey tallied her 1,000th point. Clark currently has 1,444 points and Grovey has 1,309 points.

Making Assists
            Erika Wakefield has a team-best 83 assists this season, including a career-high 10 assists against SMU on January 2, 2016. This marked the first time a TU player tallied 10 or more assists in a game since Taleya Mayberry had 10 against Akron on November 28, 2009.

In Their 30's
            Ashley Clark set a new personal best of 33 points against Houston (1-20-16), which is tied for third in school history for an individual player in a game with Carla Morrow (UMKC/2-9-01), Jillian Robbins (San Jose State/2-26-05), Jillian Robbins (Memphis/1-7-07) and Taleya Mayberry (Stephen F. Austin/12-30-12). This marked the first time a Tulsa player scored 30+ points since Taleya Mayberry had 30 points against East Carolina (3-15-13) nearly three years ago.
            Clark scored 32 points against UCF (1-30-16) 10 days later to tie the eighth-most points in a game with four others, while Kelsee Grovey countered with 32 points against UCF (2-13-16) in the second meeting of the season.

Sharp Shooters
            Freshmen Crystal Polk and Tyjae' Scales have been hitting their mark this season, boasting the two best field goal percentages on the team. Scales has a 48.9 field goal percentage (22-45), while Polk posts a 48.9 percent clip (64-131).

10+ Free Throws
            Ashley Clark and Erika Wakefield have both hit 10 free throws in a single game this season. Wakefield's 10 free throws made came against East Carolina on 12-30-15, while Clark's came one month later against UCF on 1-30-16. Wakefield went 10-for-10, while Clark went 10-for-11.

Mossman Has 217 Career Wins
            Matilda Mossman reached the 200-win milestone as Tulsa captured a 70-61 win over UCF on Jan. 31, 2015. Mossman had 67 wins at Arkansas, 80 wins at Kansas State and currently 70 wins at TU for 217 career victories.

In Tulsa's Top 10
            Four current Tulsa women's basketball players have earned their way into Tulsa's Top 10 career lists.
- Ashley Clark is third in double-doubles (13) and games played (121), fourth in points (1,444), field goals made (568) and rebounds (713), seventh in assists (264), and eighth in free throws made (256) and steals (157)
- Kelsee Grovey is first in three-point field goals made (224), sixth in points (1,309) assists (279), steals (165) and field goals made (449), eight in games played (119), ninth in three-point field goal percentage with a .364 clip (224 of 615), and 10th in free throw percentage with a .799 clip (187 of 234)
- Ashley Hughes is second in free throw percentage with a .852 clip (29 of 34)
- Teanna Reid is 10th in three-point field goal percentage with a .363 clip (61 of 168)

Clark Named to The American Preseason Team; Hurricane Picked Sixth
            Tulsa guard Ashley Clark was named to the American Athletic Conference preseason all-conference second team, while the team was picked to finish sixth in the Preseason Coaches' Poll. In the coaches' poll, UConn was predicted to win the 2015-16 Championship, while USF was second and Temple third. East Carolina, Tulane, Tulsa, Memphis, SMU, UCF, Cincinnati and Houston round out the poll.

Tulsa in Postseason
            Tulsa has made five postseason appearances, including WNIT bids in 2004, 2005 and 2015, and NCAA bids in 2006 and 2013. TU lost in the first round in 2004 (Memphis), 2005 (Texas A&M) and 2013 (Stanford), but went 1-1 (W, North Carolina State; L, DePaul) in 2006 and 2015 (W, Missouri State; L, Eastern Michigan), for a 2-5 overall mark in postseason play.

Tulsa Women’s Basketball vs. #20/21 USF

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Players Mentioned

Ashley Clark

Kelsee Grovey

Jordyn Holmes

Ashley Hughes

Crystal Polk

Teanna Reid

Tyjae' Scales

Erika Wakefield

Te'era Williams