Tulsa vs. Colorado State Preview

Saturday, December 21

Reynolds Center

6:00 pm

Tulsa

Colorado State

Tulsa vs. Colorado State Preview

12/19/2019 10:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball

Saturday, December 21 ~ 6:00 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).

Fans that attended the Tulsa-Colorado State men's basketball game earlier in the day can show their ticket at the Reynolds Center ticket office to get in free to the women's game.

Promotions:
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Selfies with Santa - Santa will also be at this game taking pictures until the end of halftime.

Game Notes: Tulsa

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Rosters: Tulsa ~ Colorado State

2019-20 Season Stats: Tulsa ~ Colorado State

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The Coaches
Tulsa: Matilda Mossman (Western Kentucky, 1979), 9th Year
Career Record: 255-242 (17 years)
Record at Tulsa: 108-149 (9 years)

Colorado State: Ryun Williams (South Dakota, 1992), 10th Year
Career Record: 462-277 (25 years)
Record at CSU: 160-86 (10 years)

Tulsa's Probable Starters
F          00        Kendrian Elliott, 6-2, Sr., Wichita, Kan., 15.9 ppg, 9.1 rpg
F          4          Addison Richards, 6-2, Sr., Bixby, Okla., 9.9 ppg, 2.8 rpg
G         10        Alexis Gaulden, 5-8, Sr., Broken Arrow, Okla., 6.9 ppg, 4.2 apg
G         11        Maddie Bittle, 5-8, So., Bixby, Okla., 5.7 ppg, 2.8 rpg
G         21        Rebecca Lescay, 5-8, Jr., Plano, Texas, 8.5 ppg, 2.6 rpg

Colorado State's Probable Starters
G         1          Katia Stamatelopoulos, 5-8, Fr., Adelaide, South Australia, 4.8 ppg
G         3          Megan Jacobs, 6-1, Jr., Las Vegas, Nev., 11.3 ppg, 4.0 rpg
F          11        Makenzie Ellis, 6-2, Gr., Tulsa, Okla., 7.7 ppg, 5.5 rpg
G         12        Jamie Bonnarens, 6-0, Jr., Cache, Okla., 8.9 ppg, 1.7 rpg
F          32        Andrea Brady, 6-1, Sr., Salt Lake City, Utah, 11.8 ppg, 7.9 rpg

In the Last Game

There were 18 lead changes and 12 tied scores, but Stetson earned a 66-60 win over Tulsa on Sunday afternoon at the Edmunds Center in DeLand, Fla.
Kendrian Elliott had her fifth double-double of the season and 11th of her career with 13 points and 12 rebounds, while Addison Richards also netted 13 points and Rebecca Lescay added 12. Alexis Gaulden registered six assists, Lescay had a team-leading four steals and Elliott had three blocks.
The Golden Hurricane had a 14-13 advantage in the third quarter for a 44-43 lead with one quarter to play, but Stetson outscored Tulsa 23-16 in the final frame for the win.
Both teams had 32 rebounds and four blocks, while Tulsa had a 16-15 edge in assists and a 6-2 lead in steals. TU also forced 17 Stetson turnovers, while the Hurricane had 13.
Tulsa shot 36-percent from the field, 18-percent from behind the arc and 87-percent from the free throw line, while Stetson shot a solid 51-percent from the field, 46-percent from three-point range and 66-percent from the charity stripe.

Facing Colorado State

Colorado State is 6-6 on the season
Three players average double-digit points on the season, including Lore Devos (12.0), Annie Brady (11.8) and Megan Jacobs (11.3)
Brady has a team-leading 7.9 rebounds per game and 10 blocks, while Katia Stamatelopoulos has 39 assists and 21 steals
CSU has a 4-3 lead in the all-time series with TU, but the Golden Hurricane earned a 58-43 win in Tulsa during the 2012-13 season

In the Nation

Tulsa ranks 74th in assists (146), 91st in steals (89), 112th in blocked shots (35) and 115th in three-point field goals attempted (197)
Kendrian Elliott ranks 15th in double-doubles (5), 23rd in rebounds (100), 27th in field goals made (69), 28th in field goal percentage (.595), 43rd in blocked shots (18), 45th in minutes played (376:07), 53rd in points (175) and 69th in rebounds per game (9.1)
Rebecca Lescay ranks 54th in steals (24)
Alexis Gaulden ranks 74th in assists (42)
NOTE: Above numbers through NCAA Rankings 12/15/19.

An Accurate Shot

Kendrian Elliott ranks fifth (.500 = 259-518) among the school's-best field goal shooters
Maddie Bittle ranks among the best in free throw percentage, coming in at fourth with a 85.2-percent clip (23-27)

Double-Doubles, Rebounds and Blocks

Kendrian Elliott has recorded 11 double-doubles in her career, including five this season, to rank fourth in school history
Elliott has 548 rebounds, ranking eighth in school history
Elliott has 67 blocks, ranking eighth in school history

Knocking Down Three's and Getting Assists

Alexis Gaulden has knocked down 152 three-pointers in her career, which ranks in fifth place on the school's all-time list
Gaulden needs seven more to tie current assistant coach Taleya Mayberry (2009-13), who is in fourth place with 159 three-pointers made
Gaulden also ranks among the schools' top 10 in assists with 280 for eighth place

Seniors Stepping Up

Kendrian Elliott and Addison Richards have really stepped up their game for their senior seasons
Elliott entered the season averaging 6.8 points per game in her first three seasons combined, but this year is netting 15.9 points per game
Elliott's 175 points this season is already her second-highest in her career with 18 regular season games to play
Richards entered the season averaging 1.6 points per game in her first three seasons combined, but this year is netting 9.9 points per game
Richards' 109 points this season is already more than any other single season of her career with 18 regular season games to play

Record-Setting Game

Kendrian Elliott registered 38 points against Arkansas State (11-9-19), which tied the school record for points in a game set by Jillian Robbins against Nevada on February 19, 2005.
Elliott's 16 field goals made in the game was a school record, topping Robbins and Ashley Clark who both had 14 field goals made in a game

Back-to-Back-to-Back

Desiree Lewis and Kendrian Elliott have both had back-to-back-to-back double-doubles in their careers, making them the fifth and sixth player in school history to reach this milestone, respectively
Lewis is just the third to do it in her freshman year, while Elliott achieved this as a senior
Kendrian Elliott had back-to-back-to-back double-doubles to start the 2019-20 season against Stephen F. Austin (13p, 12r), Arkansas State (38p, 12r) and Oklahoma State (16p, 10r)
Desiree Lewis hit back-to-back-to-back double-doubles against Wichita State (12p, 10r), Memphis (10p, 12r) and ECU (16p, 13r) in the 2018-19 season
This feat has been accomplished just 16 times in school history

Mossman Has 255 Career Wins

Matilda Mossman has collected 255 career victories
She has 67 wins at Arkansas, 80 wins at Kansas State and 108 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

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.

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 Morgan Brady) a year ago
Desiree Lewis played in 31 games, ranking third, had 163 rebounds, ranking fourth, and shot a .450 field goal percentage, ranking fifth, among the programs' freshmen

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.