Tulsa Women Host Northwestern State Sunday Afternoon

Sunday, November 12

Reynolds Center

2:00 PM

Tulsa

Northwestern State

Photo by: Bill Powell

Tulsa Women Host Northwestern State Sunday Afternoon

11/11/2023 11:56:00 PM | Women's Basketball

GAME 3:
Tulsa (2-0) vs. Northwestern State (0-2)
Sunday • Nov. 12, 2023 • 2:00 PM
Donald W. Reynolds Center (8,355) • Tulsa, Okla.

RADIO: 93.5 The Jet
LIVE STATS: StatBroadcast
TV: ESPN+
GAME NOTES: Tulsa I Northwestern State

THE COACHES:
Tulsa: Angie Nelp (Colorado State '02), 3^rd year
Career Record: 36-24 (3 years)
School Record: same

Northwestern State: Anna Nimz (Pittsburg State '08), 4^th year
Career Record: 24-53 (4 years)
School Record: same

Tulsa's Probable Starters
0          G          Katia Gallegos, 5-7, Sr-1L, El Paso, Texas, 10.0 ppg, 2.5 rpg
2          F          Temira Poindexter, 6-1, Jr-2L, Sapulpa, Okla., 29.0 ppg, 3.0 rpg
5          G          Delanie Crawford, 5-11, Jr-2L, Piedmont, Okla., 28.5 ppg, 6.0 rpg
21        G          Hadley Periman, 6-2, So-1L, Tuttle, Okla., 3.5 ppg, 9.5 rpg
22        G          Mady Cartwright, 5-10, Fr-HS, Greenwood, Ark., 4.0 ppg, 5.0 rpg

Northwestern State's Probable Starters
3          G          Jiselle Woodson, 5-5, Sr., Corner, Ala., 9.0 ppg, 2.5 rpg
4          G          Karmelah Dean, 5-7, Sr., Seattle, Wash., 11.0 ppg, 3.0 rpg
11        F          Jasmin Dixon, 6-3, Jr., Spring, Texas, 2.0 ppg, 2.5 rpg
15        G          Carla Celaya, 5-11, So., Montbau, Spain, 1.5 ppg, 2.5 rpg
35        G          Sharna Ayres, 5-10, Sr., Melbourne, Australia, 7.5 ppg, 5.0 rpg

Facing Northwestern State
• Northwestern State is 0-2 on the season, but their losses have come at Nebraska (90-42) and at Kansas (88-46)
• Karmelah Dean has a team-best 11.0 ppg, while Jiselle Woodson adds 9.0 ppg, and Sharna Ayres has a team-leading 5.0 rebounds per game
• The Demons finished the 2022-23 season with an 11-18 overall record
• Tulsa earned a 96-64 win over Northwestern State last season in the only previous meeting between the two teams

2-0 Start
• For the third consecutive season, Tulsa is off to a 2-0 start under head coach Angie Nelp.
• It's only the second time period in school history that Tulsa had a 2-0 start in three straight years … the previous time came in the 2004-05 through 2006-07 seasons.

35 & 30
• In the first two games this year, Tulsa has had a 30+ scorer in each of those contests, and both are juniors.
• In the opener, Delanie Crawford scored a career-high 35 points with a stat line of 10-of-18 FG, 2-of-4 3PT and 13-of-15 FT.
Crawford's 35 points is the second-most in school history behind 38 scored by Jillian Robbins (Feb. 19, 2005) and Kendrian Elliott (Nov. 9, 2019).
• In Tulsa's second game, Temira Poindexter scored her career-high with 30 points with a stat line of 12-of-17 FG, 3-of-7 3PT and 3-of-3 FT.
• In the two games, the Tulsa duo has scored 115 points for an average of 57.5 points, whereas the team as a whole averages 87.5 points per game.

A Defensive Presence
• Senior transfer Caranda Perea has averaged 18 minutes in a reserve role in Tulsa's first two games.
• The Temple transfer has made a presence defensively with 4.0 defensive rebounds, four blocked shots and two steals.

Tons of Points This Season
• Of Tulsa's 89 points in the season-opening win at Lindenwood, three Tulsa players combined to score all but eight of those points.
• The 81 points came from juniors Delanie Crawford and Temira Poindexter and senior Katia Gallegos.
• Crawford had a career-high 35 points, Temira Poindexter was one-point shy of her career-best with 28 points and Gallegos tallied 18 points for the most points in her Tulsa career.

Career Points
• Temira Poindexter ranks 19th with 884 points and is currently eighth in career points per game (14.7) at TU
• Katia Gallegos has also reached the 1,000-point mark as she has 1,032 career points, including 967 in three seasons at UTEP and 65 points at Tulsa.

20 or More
• Temira Poindexter has recorded 17 20+ scoring games, including one 30+ scoring contest, while Delanie Crawford has three 20+ scoring games and one 30+ scoring contest

An Accurate Career Shooter
• Katelyn Levings (.524 = 33-63) and Ahrray Young (.522 = 70-134) have earned their way onto the career field goal percentage list, ranking third and fourth, respectively.
• Hadley Periman owns a 38.9 three-point field goal percentage (7-18), earning her the No. 2 slot on the career chart, while Delanie Crawford is fifth (.373 = 90-241).
• Temira Poindexter ranks ninth (.821 = 128-156) in program history for free throw percentage

In Tulsa's Top-10 Career Leaders
• Temira Poindexter ranks sixth in blocked shots in school history with 96

Double Digits
• Temira Poindexter has scored double figures in 47 of 60 career contests

Nelp in Openers
• Head Coach Angie Nelp's three Tulsa teams have opened the season with victories, including this year's 89-81 win at Lindenwood.
• Nelp is now 2-0 when opening on the road. In addition to this year, Nelp's first career win at Tulsa came at Oklahoma State on December 13, 2020 by a score of 69-62.
• Last year, Tulsa's season-opening win was a 77-62 home victory over Duquesne on Nov. 11.