Tulsa Women’s Basketball vs. Temple

Saturday, March 5

Uncasville, Conn.

7:00 pm

Tulsa

Temple

Tulsa Women’s Basketball vs. Temple

3/5/2016 1:40:00 AM | Women's Basketball

By: Stephanie Hall

Saturday, March 5 ~ 7:00 pm Central ~ Mohegan Sun Arena ~ Uncasville, Conn.

Game Notes: Tulsa

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The Coaches
Tulsa: Matilda Mossman (Western Kentucky, 1979), 5th Year
Career Record: 219-173 (13 years)
Record at Tulsa: 72-80 (5 years)

Temple: Tonya Cardoza (Virginia, 1991), 8th Year
Career Record: 160-99 (8 years)
Record at Temple: same

Tulsa's Probable Starters
G          00       Kelsee Grovey, 5-8, Sr.-3L, Shawnee, Okla., 10.3 ppg, 3.2 rpg
F          1          Jordyn Holmes, 5-11, So.-1L, Austin, Texas, 4.3 ppg, 2.4 rpg
G          3          Erika Wakefield, 5-4, So.-1L, Moore, Okla., 8.7 ppg, 2.9 rpg, 3.1 apg
F          21       Te'era Williams, 5-11, Jr.-RS, Oklahoma City, Okla., 4.5 ppg, 4.0 rpg
G          23       Ashley Clark, 5-11, Sr.-3L, Midwest City, Okla., 14.8 ppg, 6.4 rpg

Temple's Probable Starters
G          00       Alliya Butts, 5-4, So., Edgewater Park, N.J., 15.5 ppg, 2.6 rpg
G          1          Erica Covile, 6-1, Sr., Detroit, Mich., 9.6 ppg, 7.1 rpg
G          2          Feyonda Fitzgerald, 5-7, Jr., Norfolk, Va., 13.2 ppg, 3.5 rpg
G          22       Tanaya Atkinson, 5-9, So., New Haven, Conn., 12.5 ppg, 6.7 rpg
G          32       Donnaizha Fountain, 6-0, So., Roxbury, Mass., 10.3 ppg, 6.7 rpg

The Last Game
            Seniors Kelsee Grovey and Ashley Clark, and sophomore Erika Wakefield all scored in double figures to lead sixth-seeded Tulsa to a 76-38 win over 11th-seeded Houston in the American Athletic Conference Championship First Round on Friday night at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Conn.
            Grovey had a team-leading 17 points, followed by Clark's 16 points and Wakefield's 10 points. Clark also had 11 rebounds for her 14th career double-double. Jordyn Holmes added nine points, Te'era Williams eight, and both Ashley Hughes and Liesl Spoerl totaled six points.
            Tulsa had a 42-31 lead in rebounds, a 13-2 advantage in assists and a 12-4 lead in steals, while Houston had a 2-1 edge in blocks. The Cougars turned the ball over 24 times, while the Hurricane had 14.

The Opponent
            Temple has a 19-10 overall record, including a 13-5 mark in conference play. The Owls are led by four players in double-figures, including Alliya Butts (15.5), Feyonda Fitzgerald (13.2), Tanaya Atkinson (12.5) and Donnaizh Fountain (10.3). Erica Covile has a team-high 7.1 rebounds per game, Fitzgerald has 157 assists, Butts has 75 steals and Ugo Nwaigwe has 45 blocks.

Series History
            This will be the third meeting between Tulsa and Temple on the women's basketball court, as the series is tied. The Owls earned a 66-46 win earlier this season in Philadelphia, Pa., while the Golden Hurricane picked up a 75-67 win in Tulsa last year.

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 233 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 1,513 points and Grovey has 1,342 points to rank fourth and fifth in school history, respectively.

Making Assists
            Erika Wakefield has a team-best 93 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
            Sophomore Liesl Spoerl and freshmen Crystal Polk and Tyjae' Scales have been hitting their marks this season, boasting the three best field goal percentages on the team. Spoerl has a 49.3 field goal percentage (36-73), while Polk posts a 48.9 percent clip (64-131) and Scales has a 47.9 percentage (23-48).

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 219 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 71 wins at TU for 219 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 first in games played (124), second in field goals made (598), third in double-doubles (14) and points (1,513), fourth in rebounds (741), seventh in assists (275) and steals (160), and eighth in free throws made (264)
- Kelsee Grovey is first in three-point field goals made (233), third in games played (122), fifth in field goals made (461) and points (1,342), sixth in assists (284), steals (169) and three-point field goal percentage with a .367 clip (233 of 635), and 10th in free throw percentage with a .799 clip (187 of 234)
- Ashley Hughes is second in free throw percentage with a .861 clip (31 of 36)
- Teanna Reid is 10th in three-point field goal percentage with a .363 clip (61 of 168)

Clark Named to American Athletic Conference All-Conference Third Team
            Tulsa senior Ashley Clark was named to the American Athletic Conference All-Conference Third Team, as announced today by the league office. Clark is a three-time all-conference performer, picking up second-team All-American Athletic Conference honors as a junior and second-team All-Conference USA accolades as a sophomore.

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.