Saturday, November 9
Reynolds Center
2:00 pm
Tulsa
vs
Arkansas State
Tulsa vs. Arkansas State Preview
11/7/2019 2:11:00 PM | Women's Basketball
Saturday, November 9 ~ 2:00 pm Central ~ Donald W. Reynolds Center ~ Tulsa, Okla.
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).
Promotions:
Camper Reunion Day - We invite back all our summer campers for free admission. The first 10 campers to RSVP to jmp5431@utulsa.edu will get to play a halftime. If you did not make it out to one of our camps wear your youth jersey for $2 tickets.
Postgame Activities - After the game all kids 12 & under can shoot postgame layups and the TU Women's Basketball Team will be signing autographs.
Game Notes: Tulsa
Radio: TU's games can be heard on 93.5 FM The Jet, 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
2019-20 Season Stats: Tulsa ~ Arkansas State
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The Coaches
Tulsa: Matilda Mossman (Western Kentucky, 1979), 9th Year
Career Record: 252-235 (17 years)
Record at Tulsa: 105-142 (9 years)
ASU: Matt Daniel (Harding, 1998), 1st Year
Career Record: 143-135 (9 years)
Record at ASU: First Year
Tulsa's Probable Starters
F 00 Kendrian Elliott, 6-2, Sr., Wichita, Kan., 13.0 ppg, 12.0 rpg
G 11 Maddie Bittle, 5-8, So., Bixby, Okla., 5.0 ppg, 2.0 rpg
G 21 Rebecca Lescay, 5-8, Jr., Plano, Texas, 9.0 ppg
G 22 Morgan Brady, 5-7, Jr., Little Rock, Ark., 13.0 ppg, 5.0 rpg
F 32 Desiree Lewis, 5-10, So., Converse, Texas, 6.0 ppg, 2.0 rpg
Arkansas State's Probable Starters
G 1 Jireh Washington, 5-9, So., Memphis, Tenn., 9.0 ppg, 8.0 rpg
G 3 Morgan Wallace, 5-10, Jr., Little Rock, Ark., 2.0 ppg, 15.0 rpg
G 5 Payton Tennison, 5-11, Sr., Valley Springs, Ark., 26.0 ppg, 2.0 rpg
F 21 Shameka Tubbs, 6-0, Jr., Tuscaloosa, Ala., 5.0 ppg, 4.0 rpg
F 35 Peyton Martin, 5-11, Jr., Pine Bluff, Ark., 11.0 ppg, 8.0 rpg
In the Last Game
- Trailing by as many as 24 points, the Tulsa women made a valiant comeback bid to get as close as 3 points but ran out of time and fell to the Stephen F. Austin Ladyjacks, 67-63, Tuesday night at the Donald W. Reynolds Center in the season opener.
- Tulsa was led by Addison Richards' career-high 15 points, while Morgan Brady added 13 and Kendrian Elliott turned in a double-double with 13 points and 12 rebounds.
Facing Arkansas State
- Arkansas State earned an 88-63 win over Central Baptist in their only game this season
- Payton Tennison had a team-leading 26 points, while Jada Ford added 13 points, and Peyton Martin and Trinitee Jackson both had 11
- Jackson pulled down 17 rebounds and Morgan Wallace added 15
- Jireh Washington had seven assists, Wallace had three steals, and Tennison and Kayla Williams each had three blocks
- ASU has a 6-2 lead in the all-time series, including a 73-60 win last season in Jonesboro, but the series is tied 2-2 when the game is played at the Reynolds Center
Thirteen 2019 Postseason Teams Highlight 2019-20 Schedule
- TU will take on 13 postseason teams from the 2018-19 season, including NCAA Tournament teams Abilene Christian, Little Rock, Marquette, UCF and UConn, and WNIT teams Arkansas, Cincinnati, Houston, Loyola Marymount, Stephen F. Austin, Stetson, USF and Western Kentucky.
- Additionally, 23 teams posted double-digit wins last season, including nine teams with 20-or-more victories.
An Accurate Shot
- Morgan Brady ranks 10th (.362 = 54-149) among the program's best three-point field goal shooters
- Maddie Bittle ranks among the best in free throw percentage, coming in at ninth with a 82.4-percent clip (14-17)
Knocking Down Three's
- Alexis Gaulden has knocked down 143 three-pointers in her career, which ranks in fifth place on the school's all-time list
- Gaulden needs 16 more to tie current assistant coach Taleya Mayberry (2009-13), who is in fourth place with 159 three-pointers made
2018-19 Single Season Marks
- Morgan Brady and Alexis Gaulden earned their way onto the Tulsa Single-Season Leaders list a year ago
- Brady ranked seventh in three-point field goal percentage on the year, shooting at a 39.2-percent clip
- Gaulden ranked third with 142 assists and fifth with 63 three-pointers made
Freshmen Made Marks Last Year
- Maddie Bittle shot 82.4-percent from the free throw line, making her the second-best freshman free throw shooter in school history (tying teammate Morgan Brady) a year ago
- Desiree Lewis played in 31 games, ranking third, had 163 rebounds, ranking fourth, and a .450 field goal percentage, ranking fifth, and among the programs' freshmen
Back-to-Back-to-Back as a Freshman
- Freshman Desiree Lewis hit back-to-back-to-back double-doubles against Wichita State (12p, 10r), Memphis (10p, 12r) and ECU (16p, 13r)
- Lewis is just the sixth player in school history to reach this milestone, and just the third to do it in her freshman year, but it marks the 16th time it has happened.
Mossman Has 252 Career Wins
- Matilda Mossman has collected 252 career victories
- She has 67 wins at Arkansas, 80 wins at Kansas State and currently 105 wins at TU
- Mossman has the most wins by a TU women's basketball coach
- Mossman earned her 100th career win at TU in a 46-39 win over Memphis on January 9, 2019
Tulsa Picked 10th in The American Preseason Coaches' Poll
- In the American Athletic Conference coaches' poll, Tulsa was picked to finish 10th by the league's coaches
- A year ago, TU ended the year ranked seventh in the league standings, a five-place jump from the predicted 12th-place finish
- The 2019-20 predicted order of finish is UConn, USF, UCF, Cincinnati, Houston, Temple, Tulane, Memphis, Wichita State, Tulsa, ECU and SMU
Tulsa in The American Championship
- Tulsa has a 4-5 mark in The American Championship
- TU earned wins in the first round in 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019
- The Golden Hurricane lost matches in the quarterfinals in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019
The 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 through 2020
- The 2020 championship will mark the seventh consecutive year the tournament has been played at the Uncasville, Conn. arena
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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