Tulsa Women Play Three Games in Three Days at Van Chancellor Classic

Friday, November 24

Katy, Texas

3:45 PM

Tulsa

Arkansas - Pine Bluff

Photo by: © Will Bramlett / Work in the Morning

Tulsa Women Play Three Games in Three Days at Van Chancellor Classic

11/22/2023 11:27:00 AM | Women's Basketball

VAN CHANCELLOR CLASSIC • Nov. 24-26
Leonard E. Merrell Center (5,794) - Katy, Texas
GAME 5: Tulsa vs. Arkansas-Pine Bluff (1-2) • 3:45 p.m. (CT) • Friday, November 24, 2023
GAME 6: Tulsa vs. Clemson (4-1) • 6:00 p.m. (CT) • Saturday, November 25, 2023
GAME 7: Tulsa vs. Mississippi State (5-0) • 5:30 p.m. (CT) • Sunday, November 26, 2023

RADIO: 93.5 The Jet
LIVE STATS: Live Stats
TV: ESPN+
GAME NOTES: Tulsa

THE COACHES:
Tulsa: Angie Nelp (Colorado State '02), 3^rd year
Career Record: 37-25 (3 years)
School Record: same

UAPB: Dawn Thornton (Jackson State '05)
Career Record: 65-108 (7 years)
School Record: 38-75 (5 years)

Clemson: Amanda Butler (Florida '95)
Career Record: 303-247 (18 years)
School Record: 73-88 (6 years)

Mississippi State: Sam Purcell (Auburn '03)
Career Record: 27-11 (2 years)
School Record: same

Tulsa's Probable Starters
0     G     Katia Gallegos, 5-7, Sr-1L, El Paso, Texas, 10.0 ppg, 2.3 rpg
2     F      Temira Poindexter, 6-1, Jr-2L, Sapulpa, Okla., 21.3 ppg, 3.8 rpg
5     G     Delanie Crawford, 5-11, Jr-2L, Piedmont, Okla., 22.0 ppg, 4.8 rpg
21   G     Hadley Periman, 6-2, So-1L, Tuttle, Okla., 3.0 ppg, 9.0 rpg
22   G     Mady Cartwright, 5-10, Fr-HS, Greenwood, Ark., 8.0 ppg, 5.0 rpg

Facing Arkansas-Pine Bluff
•       Tulsa has won all three previous meetings with the Golden Lions, including a 66-56 win during the 2001-02 season, an 80-46 decision in 2002-03 and an 87-37 victory in 2017-18 ... all three meetings have been in Tulsa.

Facing Clemson
•       This is the first meeting between the Tigers and the Golden Hurricane.

Facing Mississippi State
•    The Bulldogs earned a 92-66 win in Starkville, Miss., during the 2002-03 season in the Preseason WNIT Second Round.

Tulsa Starts 3-0
•    Tulsa started the season 3-0 for only the fourth time in school history and second time under Angie Nelp.
•    Nelp's first year in the 2021-22 season Tulsa went out to a 10-0 start before its first loss.
•    The other years Tulsa started 3-0 came in 2004-05 (7) and 2003-04 (3).

Crawford Earns Honors in First Two Weeks
•    In the first two weeks of the season, junior guard Delanie Crawford earned all-conference accolades.
•       After three games in the first week, Crawford was named the American Athletic Conference Player of the Week.
•       Crawford averaged 21.7 points while shooting 57% from the field, 54%from 3-point range and 90% from the free throw line … she added 4.0 rebounds and 2.0 assists.
•       In a 89-80 opening road win at Lindenwood, Crawford came three points shy of tying the school scoring record of 38 points, which was set twice before … her 35 points is the second highest single-game point total in school history … in that game she shot 56% from the field, 50% from 3-point range and 87% from the line, while grabbing 9 rebounds.

She followed that with a 22-point effort against New Orleans … in the third game of the week, Crawford only played 15 minutes due to early foul trouble and ended with 8 points and 2 assists.

35 & 30
•    Tulsa had a 30+ scorer in the first two games this year.
•    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 scored 115 points for an average of 57.5 points, whereas the team, as a whole, averaged 87.5 points in those two games.

Bench is Coming On
•    After scoring just five points in the first game of the season, the Tulsa bench has totaled 65 points in the last three games – New Orleans and Northwestern State.
•    Against New Orleans, the Tulsa reserves scored 20 points and grabbed 17 rebounds.
•    In the Northwestern State game, the Hurricane bench tallied 17 points and 15 rebounds.
•    At Oral Roberts, TU's bench, that included just four players, had 28 points and 10 boards

Gallegos Getting More Points
•    In the early going, Tulsa senior guard Katia Gallegos has shown her ability to score.
•    A year ago, in her first with the Hurricane, Gallegos averaged just 2.3 points, while shooting 23% from the field and 10% from behind the arc.
•       After four games, Gallegos averages 10.0 points, while shooting 55% from the field.
•       In 20 games last season, Gallegos' season scoring high was nine points twice … after two games this year she already has three double-digit scoring games.
•       This year, she scored her Tulsa career-high with 18 points in the opener at Lindenwood.

Madi Shoots the Three-Ball
•       Freshman Madi Cartwright exploded in the first quarter against Northwestern State with 12 points, on 4-of-4 from behind the arc.
•       She ended the game with 15 points, knocking down another three-pointer … the 15 points bested her previous season-high of five points in the contest before.
•       On the year, Cartwright leads Tulsa in three-point field goal percentage at .526, connecting on 10-of-19 treys … she is 0-5 on two-pointers

Periman on the Boards
•       Sophomore Hadley Periman leads the Hurricane in rebounding after four games with 9.0 average.
•       She has two 10+ rebounding games this year, bettering her previous career-high of nine rebounds last year against UCA.
•       Periman had a career-high 12 boards in the second game of the season vs. New Orleans, and a game later pulled down 10 boards vs. Northwestern State.

A Defensive Presence
•       Senior transfer Caranda Perea and sophomore Hadley Periman have made a difference defensively for Tulsa … Periman as a starter and Perea off the bench.
•       A Temple transfer, Perea has averaged 4.0 defensive rebounds, has six blocked shots and two steals … she had a season-high five defensive rebounds and three blocks against New Orleans ... she also had five boards at Oral Roberts.
•       Periman, in her second season, has averaged 7.0 defensive rebounds and has four blocks and four steals … she had nine defensive boards vs. New Orleans and eight against Northwestern State along with game-highs of three steals and two blocks.

Tons of Points In Season Opener
•       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 recorded 28 points and Gallegos tallied 18 points for the most points in her Tulsa career.

Career Points
•       Temira Poindexter ranks 18th with 911 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 1,052 career points, including 967 in three seasons at UTEP and 85 points at Tulsa.