Sunday, December 10
Fayetteville, Ark.
2:00 pm
Tulsa
at
Arkansas
Tulsa vs. Arkansas Preview
12/8/2017 10:07:00 AM | Women's Basketball
Sunday, December 10 ~ 2:00 pm Central ~ Bud Walton Arena ~ Fayetteville, Ark.
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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The Coaches
Tulsa: Matilda Mossman (Western Kentucky, 1979), 7th Year
Career Record: 233-200 (15 years)
Record at Tulsa: 86-107 (7 years)
Arkansas: Mike Neighbors (Arkansas, 1993), 2nd Year
Career Record: 104-44 (5 years)
Record at Arkansas: 6-3 (1st year)
Tulsa's Probable Starters
F 00 Kendrian Elliott, 6-2, So-1L, Wichita, Kan., 9.9 ppg, 7.4 rpg
G 2 Tatyana Perez, 5-6, Jr-2L, Cypress, Texas, 7.3 ppg, 2.9 rpg
G 3 Erika Wakefield, 5-4, Sr-3L, Moore, Okla., 7.0 ppg, 3.6 rpg
G 21 Rebecca Lescay, 5-8, Fr-HS, Plano, Texas, 3.0 ppg, 3.0 rpg
F 33 Crystal Polk, 6-2, Jr-2L, Lawton, Okla., 10.4 ppg, 6.3 rpg
Arkansas' Probable Starters
G 3 Malica Monk, 5-5, Jr, North Little Rock, Ark., 18.7 ppg, 4.3 rpg
C 10 Kiara Williams, 6-1, So, Little Rock, Ark., 7.8 ppg, 7.9 rpg
G 14 Jailyn Mason, 5-8, So, Mason, Ohio, 8.9 ppg, 4.0 rpg
G 21 Devin Cosper, 5-10, Sr, Coffeyville, Kan., 18.8 ppg, 7.4 rpg
F 22 Bailey Zimmerman, 6-0, Jr, St. Vincent, Ark., 2.1 ppg, 2.7 rpg
Facing Arkansas
- This is the 24th meeting between Tulsa and Arkansas
- The Razorbacks have a 20-3 lead in the all-time series
- Arkansas picked up a 57-50 win last year, but it was Tulsa that earned a win in the last meeting at Arkansas (74-67 in 2015-16)
Scouting Arkansas
- Arkansas is 6-3 on the season, including 4-0 at home
- The Razorbacks are led by Devin Cosper and Malica Monk with 18.8 and 18.7 points per game respectively
- Kiara Williams has a team-high 7.9 rebounds per game and 12 blocks
- Monk has 21 steals and 36 assists to lead Arkansas in both categories
The Last Game: UAPB
- Tulsa posted an 87-37 win over the Arkansas-Pine Bluff Lions
- Crystal Polk led five double-figure scorers with a game-best and career-high 16 points
- Four more Tulsa players tallied double-figure points as Alexis Gaulden was 5-of-6 from three-point range for 15 points, while Erika Wakefield scored 12, Morgan Brady tallied 12 and Tatyana Perez had 11 points
- Brady, who came to Tulsa as a walk-on athlete, was awarded a scholarship following the game
- The 50-point win was the largest for the Golden Hurricane since a 62-point victory against Langston in January 2013, and it was the third largest win margin in school history
On the Bench
- Tulsa returns 10 letterwinners, including four starters, from last year
- The Golden Hurricane added two newcomers to the squad
Morgan Brady
- Morgan Brady was a walk-on student-athlete to start her career
- She was awarded a full athletic scholarship after the Tulsa-UAPB game on December 5, 2017
- "Morgan was a walk-on, we didn't recruit her, but she was a kid that wanted to be at Tulsa because of the academics, and wanted to be a part of our program," Mossman said. "She has worked really hard ever since she got on campus, she continues to do the right things, and she is here on academic aid, probably 85%, but we wanted to give her that full scholarship. She has earned it and she is the kind of kid that will continue to do the things to make that scholarship be hers."
In the Nation...
- Tulsa is ... 46th in three-point field goal defense (27.0)
- Tulsa is ... 63rd in turnovers per game (14.1)
- Tulsa is ... 64th in rebounds (364)
- Tulsa is ... 69th in free throw percentage (73.2)
- Tulsa is ... 75th in field goal percentage defense (36.9)
- Tulsa is ... 95th in free throws made (112)
- Tulsa is ... 98th in scoring defense (60.6)
- Shug Dickson is ... 41st in free throw percentage (88.5)
Dickson's Scoring Streak
- Shug 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
- She became the sixth player overall to reach this feat (Taleya Mayberry, Larrissa Williams, Jillian Robbins, Allison Curtin and Lila Osceola did it before her.)
- 15 times now a Tulsa women's basketball player has scored 20+ points three or more times in a row
Dickson in the 20's
- Shug Dickson has scored 20+ points in seven games
- Dickson has a personal-best 22 points three times in her career
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 and Crystal Polk currently rank on the Tulsa Individual Career List
- Elliott sits in eighth-place with a .488 (121-248) field goal percentage
- Polk is in 10th place with a .471 (130-276) field goal percentage
Freshmen Making 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 233 Career Wins
- Matilda Mossman has collected 233 career victories
- She has 67 wins at Arkansas, 80 wins at Kansas State and currently 86 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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