Monday, February 26
Reynolds Center
7:00 pm
Tulsa
vs
Wichita State
Tulsa vs. Wichita State Preview
2/25/2018 3:00:00 PM | Women's Basketball
Monday, February 26 ~ 7:00 pm Central ~ Donald W. Reynolds Center ~ Tulsa, Okla.
Game Promotions: The Tulsa Storm Center is offering 50% off merchandise at their Reynolds Center location. The Tulsa-WSU game is also senior night as TU honors senior players Ebony Parker and Erika Wakefield prior to the game.
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 93.5 FM The Jet, KWTU 88.7 FM HD2, iHeart Radio App and online at TulsaHurricane.com. Brandon Hart calls play-by-play.
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2017-18 Season Stats: Tulsa ~ Wichita State
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The Coaches
Tulsa: Matilda Mossman (Western Kentucky, 1979), 7th Year
Career Record: 238-214 (15 years)
Record at Tulsa: 91-121 (7 years)
Wichita State: Keitha Adams (Southwestern, 1989), 1st Year
Career Record: 424-262 (22 years)
Record at Wichita State: 13-16 (1 year)
Tulsa's Probable Starters
G 3 Erika Wakefield, 5-4, Sr-3L, Moore, Okla., 10.9 ppg, 3.1 rpg
G 10 Alexis Gaulden, 5-8, So-1L, Broken Arrow, Okla., 8.2 ppg, 3.1 rpg
G 21 Rebecca Lescay, 5-8, Fr-HS, Plano, Texas, 4.0 ppg, 3.7 rpg
G 22 Morgan Brady, 5-7, Fr-HS, Hensley, Ark., 4.1 ppg, 1.2 rpg
F 33 Crystal Polk, 6-2, Jr-2L, Lawton, Okla., 7.5 ppg, 4.7 rpg
Wichita State's Probable Starters
G 1 Keke Thompson, 5-5, Sr, Montgomery, Ala., 6.3 ppg, 3.4 rpg
G 4 Diamond, Lockhart, 5-5, Sr, Red Oak, Texas, 10.3 ppg, 3.9 rpg
F 11 Sabrina Lozada-Cabbage, 6-2, Jr, Santa Fe, N.M., 7.0 ppg, 4.6 rpg
F 35 Rangie Bessard, 6-1, Sr, Rosharon, Texas, 19.7 ppg, 7.4 rpg
F 40 Angiee Tompkins, 6-2, Sr, Orlando, Fla., 10.3 ppg, 5.6 rpg
Facing Wichita State
- This is the 18th meeting between Tulsa and Wichita State
- WSU has a 15-2 lead in the all-time series
- The Golden Hurricane earned a 67-62 win in Wichita earlier this season
Scouting Wichita State
- Wichita State is 13-16 on the season, including an 8-7 mark in The American
- WSU is on a three-game winning streak, including an 81-70 win over Tulane on Saturday
- Rangie Bessard, Angiee Tompkins and Diamond Lockhart are all averaging double-digit points with 19.7, 10.3 and 10.3 points per game, respectively
- Bessard has a team-best 7.4 rebounds per game, Lockhart has 92 assists, Keke Thompson has 42 steals and Sabrina Lozada-Cabbage has 37 blocks
The Last Game: Memphis
- Erika Wakefield, Shug Dickson, Alexis Gaulden and Crystal Polk all scored in double figures, but it wasn't enough as Tulsa dropped a 65-56 decision to Memphis
- Wakefield led the Hurricane attack with 12 points, while Dickson and Gaulden both added 11, and Polk scored 10
- Polk, Gaulden, Dickson and Jasmine Butler all had a team-best five rebounds, while Wakefield had six assists and Butler had four steals
- Memphis had a 43-36 lead in rebounds and a 12-11 edge in steals, while Tulsa had a 5-3 advantage in blocks, and both teams had 13 assists
In the Nation...
- Tulsa is ... 85th in turnovers per game (14.5)
- Tulsa is ... 71st in free throw percentage (73.6)
- Tulsa is ... 94th in fewest turnovers (406)
- Tulsa is ... 99th in three-point field goal defense (30.2)
- Shug Dickson is ... 11th free throw percentage (89.0)
Tulsa Against Ranked Conference Foes This Season
- Tulsa dropped a 78-60 decision to #1 UConn and a 71-57 loss to #23 USF
- In those two games, TU trailed by single digits in the fourth quarter
- The Hurricane has the smallest margin of loss to UConn this season and the fourth-best margin of loss (14 points) to USF in American Athletic Conference games
- Tulsa dropped an 18-point loss to the Huskies, while UCF also lost by 18 (55-37)
- UConn's average conference margin of victory is 48.6 points in league play
- Besides Tulsa (18), only #7 Texas (4), #2 Notre Dame (9), Louisville (11), #5 UCLA (18) and UCF (18) have lost by less than 20 points to UConn this season
- Tulsa's 60 points against UConn is the eighth most against them this season and second most in league play (only Cincinnati scored more with 65 points)
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), and in three-straight games in 2017-18, including 23 points (UCF), 21 points (USF) and 29 points (Temple)
- 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 13 games, including eight times this season
Erika Wakefield on Tulsa's Career Charts
- Erika Wakefield ranks sixth with 329 assists
- She ranks fifth with 170 steals
- She ranks 10th with 393 field goals made
- She ranks 11th with 1,035 points
1,000 Points
- Erika Wakefield became just the 11th women's basketball player in school history to reach the 1,000-point mark
- She scored her 1,000th career point against ECU on Feb. 20, 2018
- Lila Osceola (1996-98, 1999-2000), Kasie Pittman (1996-2000), Leela Farr (1997-2002), Carla Morrow (1998-2002), Megan Moody (2002-06), Jillian Robbins (2003-07), Larrissa Williams (2006-10), Taleya Mayberry (2009-13), Ashley Clark (2012-16) and Kelsee Grovey (2012-16) have all reached the 1,000-point mark in school history
An Accurate Shot
- Crystal Polk currently ranks on the Tulsa Individual Career List
- Polk sits in ninth place with a .488 (182-373) field goal percentage
Who's Starting?
- Tulsa has used 18 different starting lineups this season
- Only one lineup has been used four times
Mossman Has 238 Career Wins
- Matilda Mossman has collected 238 career victories
- She has 67 wins at Arkansas, 80 wins at Kansas State and currently 91 wins at TU
- Mossman has tied for the most wins by a TU women's basketball head coach
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).
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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