Friday, December 22
Reynolds Center
1:00 pm
Tulsa
vs
Arkansas State
Tulsa vs. Arkansas State Preview
12/20/2017 10:31:00 AM | Women's Basketball
Friday, December 22 ~ 1:00 pm Central ~ Donald W. Reynolds Center ~ Tulsa, Okla.
Marketing Promotion:
- Kids 12 and Under are free with purchase of an adult ticket
- Santa Claus will be on the concourse for "Selfies with Santa"
- Arts and Crafts with the Spirit Squad is available on the concourse
- Enter to win TU Prize Packs
Tickets: Single game tickets are $5 general admission and season passes are $50. Tickets can be purchased ONLINE, at the Reynolds Center ticket office or by calling 918.631.GoTU (4688).
Game Notes: Tulsa
Radio: TU's regular season games can be heard on CHROME 93.5 FM, KWTU 88.7 FM HD2, free on the iHeart Radio App and online at TulsaHurricane.com. Brandon Hart calls play-by-play.
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Rosters: Tulsa ~ Arkansas State
2017-18 Season Stats: Tulsa ~ Arkansas State
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The Coaches
Tulsa: Matilda Mossman (Western Kentucky, 1979), 7th Year
Career Record: 234-202 (15 years)
Record at Tulsa: 87-109 (7 years)
Arkansas State: Brian Boyer (Missouri Western, 1993), 19th Year
Career Record: 311-259 (19 years)
Record at Arkansas State: same
Tulsa's Probable Starters
G 2 Tatyana Perez, 5-6, Jr-2L, Cypress, Texas, 7.6 ppg, 2.6 rpg
G 3 Erika Wakefield, 5-4, Sr-3L, Moore, Okla., 8.3 ppg, 3.6 rpg
G 10 Alexis Gaulden, 5-8, So-1L, Broken Arrow, Okla., 8.0 ppg, 3.3 rpg
G 12 Shug Dickson, 5-9, So-1L, St. Louis, Mo., 14.6 ppg, 5.1 rpg
F 33 Crystal Polk, 6-2, Jr-2L, Lawton, Okla., 8.5 ppg, 5.9 rpg
Arkansas State's Probable Starters
G 00 Jada Ford, 5-9, So, Muskogee, Okla., 9.4 ppg, 1.6 rpg
F 1 Lauren Bradshaw, 6-2, Sr, Mesquite, Texas, 5.6 ppg, 4.8 rpg
G 2 Starr Taylor, 5-6, So, Jonesboro, Ark., 6.4 ppg, 1.6 rpg
G 10 Akasha Westbrook, 5-10, Jr, Malvern, Ark., 12.9 ppg, 4.5 rpg
F 50 Madison Heckert, 6-4, So, Atwood, Tenn., 3.5 ppg, 2.4 rpg
Facing Arkansas State
- This is the sixth meeting between Tulsa and Arkansas State
- ASU has a 4-1 lead in the all-time series
- The Red Wolves earned an 83-80 win last season in Jonesboro, Ark.
Scouting Arkansas State
- Arkansas State is 5-5 on the season, including a 76-56 win over Grambling State in their last contest
- Akasha Westbrook has a team-best 12.9 points per game
- Jada Ford adds 9.4 ppg
- Lauren Bradshaw has a team-leading 4.8 rebounds per game and has 12 blocks
The Last Game: South Dakota
- Tulsa dropped a 77-66 decision to Saint Louis at Chaifetz Arena in St. Louis
- Shug Dickson scored a career-high 33 points, including 20 points in the final quarter
- This was Dickson's first 20+ scoring game on the season and eighth in her career.
- Erika Wakefield added a season-best 16 points
- Dickson and Tyjae' Scales each pulled down six rebounds
- Wakefield had a team-best four steals.
In the Nation...
- Tulsa is ... 30th in turnovers per game (13.6)
- Tulsa is ... 35th in three-point field goal defense (26.3)
- Tulsa is ... 45th in rebounds (439)
- Tulsa is ... 87th in free throw percentage (72.3)
- Tulsa is ... 80th in field goal percentage defense (37.0)
- Shug Dickson is ... 24th in free throw percentage (88.9)
Dickson's Scoring
- Shug Dickson's 33 points against Saint Louis (12-19-17) ranks third in school history for points scored in a single game by a player, as she ties the mark hit by Carla Morrow, Jillian Robbins (twice), Taleya Mayberry and Ashley Clark.
- Dickson scored 20+ points in three-straight games in 2016-17, including 21 points (Temple), 21 points (#1 UConn) and 22 points (UCF)
- Dickson was the first freshman in school history (dating back to the 1996-97 season) to score 20+ points in three-straight games
- Dickson became the sixth player overall to reach this feat (Taleya Mayberry, Larrissa Williams, Jillian Robbins, Allison Curtin and Lila Osceola did it before her.)
- Dickson has scored 20+ points in eight games
Making Assists
- Erika Wakefield ranks in the top-10 on Tulsa's Career Chart for assists
- She currently has 271 assists for eighth place
- She needs six more to tie Ashley Clark (2012-16) who has the No. 7 slot with 277
An Accurate Shot
- Kendrian Elliott currently ranks on the Tulsa Individual Career List
- Elliott sits in 10th-place with a .473 (123-260) field goal percentage
Last Year's Freshmen Made Marks
- Addison Richards and Kendrian Elliott concluded their freshmen season's on the Tulsa Freshman Single-Season Records list
- Richards ranked second in three-point field goal percentage (.387) and third in games played (31)
- Elliott finished second in blocks (24), rebounds (220) and field goal percentage (.497), and fourth in free throw percentage (.774).
Mossman Has 234 Career Wins
- Matilda Mossman has collected 234 career victories
- She has 67 wins at Arkansas, 80 wins at Kansas State and currently 87 wins at TU
Parker for Three
- Tulsa's Ebony Parker knocked down an NJCAA Division I record 144 three-point shots during the 2015-16 season
- In comparison, the most in a single season at Tulsa was 77 by Athena Pirpich (2000-01).
Eleven 2016-17 Postseason Teams Highlight 2017-18 Schedule
- 11 postseason teams highlight the 2017-18 Tulsa schedule
- NCAA Tournament teams include Alaska Anchorage (Division II), Belmont, Temple, UConn and USF
- WNIT participants were Little Rock, Saint Louis, SMU, South Dakota, Tulane and UCF.
Hurricane Picked Ninth in The American Preseason Coaches' Poll
- In the American Athletic Conference coaches' poll, Tulsa was picked to finish ninth by the league's coaches
- UConn, which has won four-straight American Athletic Conference Championships, was picked first
- USF was selected to finish second and Temple was selected third
- UCF, SMU, Tulane, Memphis, Cincinnati, Tulsa, Wichita State, Houston and ECU round out the poll
The 2018 American Athletic Conference Championship
- The American Athletic Conference and Mohegan Sun Arena have agreed to a multi-year agreement for Mohegan Sun to host the Conference's Women's Basketball Championship from 2018 through 2020
- The 2018 championship will mark the fifth consecutive year the tournament has been played at the Uncasville, Connecticut arena
- The 2018 tournament is set for March 3-6
Tulsa in The American Championship
- Tulsa has a 2-3 mark in American Athletic Conference Championship play
- TU earned wins in the first round of the 2016 and 2017 tournaments
- The Golden Hurricane lost matches in the quarterfinals in 2015, 2016 and 2017.
Tulsa in Postseason
- Tulsa has made five postseason appearances
- TU earned WNIT bids in 2004, 2005 and 2015
- The Hurricane played in the NCAA Tournament in 2006 and 2013.
- Tulsa 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)
- The Hurricane has a 2-5 overall mark in postseason play
A Hurricane in Tulsa?
The Origination of The University of Tulsa nickname - Golden Hurricane - was created in 1922. A new football coach, Howard Archer came to town and inherited a slew of nicknames dating back to 1895. In the past, Tulsa had been named "Kendallites," "Presbyterians," "Tigers," "Orange and Black," "Tulsans," and of course, "Yellow Jackets." The team started working out in the fall with a new nickname "Yellow Jackets" which was apparently due to the fact that the team was wearing new black and yellow uniforms. The team opened the season and it was apparent that Tulsa was going to have a great year, and trying to seize some publicity for his team, Archer wanted to find a new nickname quickly. After a remark was made in practice one day about "roaring through opponents," and because of their new jersey colors, he thought of "Golden Tornadoes." But a check showed that Georgia Tech already had chosen that tag in 1917. From the tornado, he evolved meteorologically to the hurricane. A few days before the team left for a game against Texas A&M, Archer asked the squad to vote on the name, and thus "Golden Hurricane" was born.
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