Tulsa Captures 75-62 Win Over North Texas; Advances to Round 2 of the WNIT

Thursday, March 17

Denton, Texas

7:00 pm

Tulsa

17-10,5-8AAC

North Texas

-1713,107 CUSA

Tulsa

North Texas

Photo by: Bill Powell

Tulsa Captures 75-62 Win Over North Texas; Advances to Round 2 of the WNIT

3/17/2022 9:06:00 PM | Women's Basketball

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Tulsa travels to Wyoming for Sunday second round game

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Maddie Bittle scored a team-best 23 points, while three others scored in double figures to lead Tulsa to a 75-62 win over North Texas on Thursday night at The Super Pit in Denton, Texas. The Golden Hurricane moved to 17-10 overall, while the Mean Green concluded their season with a 17-13 mark.

Tulsa will play Wyoming, a 76-73 overtime winner Thursday night over Idaho State, in second round action. The game will be played in Laramie on Sunday at 2 p.m. (MT).

Wyvette Mayberry added 15 point, while Maya Mayberry and Delanie Crawford both scored 12 points. Jessika Evans pulled down a team-best nine rebounds, while Bittle and Crawford both had seven to help TU outrebound the Mean Green, 38-30.

Tulsa shot 44.8-percent from the field, 28.0-percent from behind the arc and 94.1-percent (16-of-17) from the free throw line, while North Texas shot 43.4-percent from the field, 36.4-percent from three-point range and 50-percent from the line.

Tulsa had a 10-9 edge in assists, a 7-3 advantage in steals and a 3-1 lead in blocks.

TU missed their first six shots, but Temira Poindexter scored on a layup and earned the and-one, making the score 4-3 North Texas with 6:03 on the clock in the first frame. Tulsa took their first lead, 7-6, on a Bittle layup with 3:47 on the clock, and then a layup by Jessika Evans put the Hurricane up for the remainder of the quarter with 2:08 to play. TU owned a 16-12 advantage at the end of the frame, finishing the quarter with a 38.9 field goal percentage but was just a 16.7 from behind the arc.

Poindexter picked up her second foul with just 9:22 on the clock in the second quarter, and then Rebecca Lescay had her second foul with 5:26 to play in the frame as both players spent the majority of the quarter on the bench.

With neither team having more than a four-point lead, six lead changes and four tied scores the second quarter was tightly contested, but it was the Golden Hurricane that took a 35-32 lead into halftime.

TU maintained the lead throughout the third quarter until a three-pointer by Quincy Noble put the Mean Green up 49-48 with 2:48 to play in the frame. There were three more lead changes with the Hurricane owning a 57-53 lead with one quarter to play. TU shot just 16.7 percent from three-point range in the first half, but battled back and hit 3-of-7 attempts for 42.9-percent in the third quarter.

Bittle outscored the Mean Green, 7-3, to start the third quarter and gave TU an eight-point lead, 64-56, with 6:26 on the clock. The Golden Hurricane climbed to a game-high 18-point lead at the 2:36 mark of the final frame and earned the 13 point win.

North Texas was led by Amber Dixon with 23 points, while Noble added 15 and owned a team-best eight rebounds.