Tulsa Women’s Basketball vs. Cincinnati

Saturday, February 27 ~ 12:00 pm Central ~ Fifth Third Arena ~ Cincinnati, Ohio

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The Coaches
Tulsa: Matilda Mossman (Western Kentucky, 1979), 5th Year
Career Record: 217-173 (13 years)
Record at Tulsa: 70-80 (5 years)

Cincinnati: Jamelle Elliott (UConn, 1996), 8th Year
Career Record: 78-132 (8 years)
Record at Cincinnati: same

Tulsa's Probable Starters
G          00       Kelsee Grovey, 5-8, Sr.-3L, Shawnee, Okla., 10.1 ppg, 3.0 rpg
F          1          Jordyn Holmes, 5-11, So.-1L, Austin, Texas, 4.0 ppg, 2.5 rpg
G          3          Erika Wakefield, 5-4, So.-1L, Moore, Okla., 8.8 ppg, 2.8 rpg, 3.1 apg
F          21       Te'era Williams, 5-11, Jr.-RS, Oklahoma City, Okla., 4.1 ppg, 3.7 rpg
G          23       Ashley Clark, 5-11, Sr.-3L, Midwest City, Okla., 14.3 ppg, 6.2 rpg

Cincinnati's Probable Starters
G          3          Ana Owens, 5-6, So., Indianapolis, Ind., 13.3 ppg, 4.3 rpg
G          12       Alyesha Lovett, 6-0, Sr., Newark, N.J., 11.1 ppg, 5.5 rpg
G          22       Bianca Quisenberry, 5-8, Jr., Springfield, Ohio, 7.6 ppg, 3.5 rpg
G          23       Jasmine Whitfield, 5-10, Sr., Crestwood, Ky., 12.4 ppg, 5.5 rpg
F          32       Shelbi Chandler, 6-3, Sr., Indianapolis, Ind., 3.4 ppg, 3.1 rpg

The Last Game
            The 20th-ranked USF Bulls held off Tulsa's comeback bid for a 72-66 victory over the Golden Hurricane Wednesday in front of 337 fans on Senior Night at the Donald W. Reynolds Center.
            Ashley Clark led the Hurricane with 26 points and nine rebounds, while Jordyn Holmes added 15 points and Erika Wakefield scored 10. USF's Courtney Williams scored a game-high 33 points, while Laura Ferreira added 18 points.
            Tulsa shot 46.7 percent for the game, a percentage point better the USF's 45.6 percent, but the Hurricane had 14 turnovers to just eight for the Bulls.
            TU won the second and fourth quarters, and trailed by just one point after the first frame. The Hurricane was also up two points at halftime, 32-30.

The Opponent
            Cincinnati has an 8-19 overall record, including a 4-12 mark in The American, and have won one of their last seven games. The Bearcats are led by a trio of players averaging double-digit points, including Ana Owens (13.3), Jasmine Whitfield (12.4) and Alyesha Lovett (11.1). Whitfield and Lovett have a team-best 5.5 rebounds per game, while Owens has 77 assists, and Lovett has 18 blocks and 50 steals.

Series History
            Tulsa has a 2-1 lead in the all-time series with Cincinnati, but the Bearcats picked up a 55-53 win at Tulsa earlier this season. The Golden Hurricane won both meetings a year ago.

The Losses
            In seven of Tulsa's 18 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 226 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 1,470 points and Grovey has 1,315 points.

Making Assists
            Erika Wakefield has a team-best 87 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 50.0 field goal percentage (23-46), 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 second in games played (122), third in double-doubles (13), fourth in points (1,470), field goals made (580) and rebounds (722), seventh in assists (266), and eighth in free throws made (257) and steals (158)
- Kelsee Grovey is first in three-point field goals made (226), fifth in field goals made (451) and games played (120), sixth in points (1,315), assists (280) and steals (165), ninth in three-point field goal percentage with a .365 clip (226 of 619), 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.

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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