Tulsa Women Take on TCU Friday in Fort Worth

GAME 8:
Tulsa (5-2) vs. TCU (7-0)
Friday • Dec. 1, 2023 • 6:30 PM
Schollmaier Arena (6,800) • Fort Worth, Texas

RADIO: 93.5 The Jet
LIVE STATS: TulsaHurricane
TV: ESPN+
GAME NOTES: Tulsa I TCU

THE COACHES:
Tulsa: Angie Nelp (Colorado State '02), 3^rd year
Career Record: 39-26 (3 years)
School Record: same

TCU: Mark Campbell (Hawaii '03), 1^st year
Career Record: 46-34 (3 years)
School Record: 7-0 (1 year)

Tulsa's Probable Starters
0     G     Katia Gallegos, 5-7, Sr-1L, El Paso, Texas, 9.0 ppg, 2.6 rpg, 3.5 apg
2     F      Temira Poindexter, 6-1, Jr-2L, Sapulpa, Okla., 23.3 ppg, 4.0 rpg
5     G     Delanie Crawford, 5-11, Jr-2L, Piedmont, Okla., 19.7 ppg, 6.3 rpg
21   F      Hadley Periman, 6-2, So-1L, Tuttle, Okla., 2.4 ppg, 8.4 rpg
22   G     Mady Cartwright, 5-10, Fr-HS, Greenwood, Ark., 6.7 ppg, 3.9 rpg

TCU's Probable Starters
1     G     Jaden Owens, 5-7, Gr., Plano, Texas, 6.7 ppg, 2.6, rpg
3     G     Madison Conner, 5-11, Jr., Chandler, Ariz., 21.9 ppg, 7.3 rpg
5     G     Una Jovanovic, 5-9, Jr., Santa Clara, Calif., 5.6 ppg, 0.9 rpg
13   C      Sedona Prince, 6-7, Gr., Liberty Hill, Texas, 21.4 ppg, 10.4 rpg
21   G     Agnes Emma-Nnopu, 5-11, Sr., Victoria, Australia, 10.3 ppg, 6.0 rpg

Facing TCU
•   This is the 18^th meeting between the two schools.
• TCU leads the series 11-6.
•   The first meeting came in the 1977-78 season, while the teams last met on Dec. 20, 2011, as the Horned Frogs won 60-43.

Crawford & Poindexter AAC Earn Player of the Week Honors
•    In the first three weeks of the season, Tulsa juniors Delanie Crawford and Temira Poindexter were named two of the American Athletic Conference Player of the Week selections.
•       Delanie Crawford earned all-conference accolades in the first week after averaging 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 an 89-80 opening road win at Lindenwood, Crawford scored 35 points for the second highest single-game point total in school history.
•       In the second week of the season, Crawford was named to the AAC weekly honor roll.
•       On Nov. 27, Poindexter earned the AAC Player of the Week award after totaling 26.0 points, 4.3 rebounds and 3.0 assists while leading Tulsa to a 2-1 record at the Van Chancellor Classic.
•       Poindexter totaled 29 points against UAPB, 26 in a win over Clemson and 23 against 25^th-ranked Mississippi State.
•       It's the first weekly honor for both Crawford and Poindexter in their careers … Poindexter was named the Freshman of the Week eight times in 2021-22 and made the weekly honor roll six times last year.

Poindexter Near the Top in NCAA Stats
•       Temira Poindexter ranks 8^th nationally for scoring with a 23.3 average after seven games … Iowa's Caitlin Clark leads the nation with a 29.6 average.
•       This week, Poindexter ranks second in NCAA stats for points scored (163), third for field goals (63), fourth for field goal attempts (135) and ninth for three-point attempts.
•       With five 20+ scoring games this year, Poindexter now has 20 career games of 20 or more points.

Approaching 1,000
•       Temira Poindexter enters this week needing just the 12^th player in school history to reach the 1,000 point plateau.
•       She currently ranks 12^th on the school's all-time points list with 989 career points in 65 career games for a 15.2 average.
•       points and is currently eighth in career points per game (14.7) at TU
•       Another Hurricane player, Katia Gallegos has already reached the 1,000-point mark in her career with 1,075 points, including 967 in three seasons at UTEP and 108 points at Tulsa.

Going for 30
•   Tulsa had a 30+ scorer in the first two games of the season.
•       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.

Ahrray Returns
•       Ahrray Young was back in the lineup for the ORU game after missing the first three games and the final 10 contests a year ago due to injury.
•       She has averaged 6.5 points and 1.3 rebounds in her first four games back with a season-high of 12 points against UAPB.
•       Young is shooting 61% from the field (11-18) and 50% from three-point range (2-4).
•       A year ago, Young averaged 8.6 points, 5.0 rebounds and 2.2 assists while earning AAC all- freshman team honors.

All-Around Player
•       Delanie Crawford is not only scoring 19.7 points per game to rank second on the roster, but the junior has done it efficiently.
•       Crawford has a .529 field goal percentage, .447 from three-point range and .861 from the charity stripe.
•       Crawford is among the top-5 in The American for all three shooting categories – FG percentage (4^th), three-point percentage (5^th) and free throw percentage (4^th).
•       She is also second on the team for rebounding (6.3) and third for assists (2.1).
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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.
•       Gallegos scored just 45 points in 20 games a year ago, while after seven contests this year she has totaled 63 points for a 9.0 scoring average.
•       She has also averaged 3.6 assists and 2.6 rebounds and is shooting 54% from the field.
•       Gallegos has four double-figure scoring games this year as compared to zero last season.
•       She has scored her Tulsa career-high of 18 points twice this year, coming against Lindenwood and UAPB.

Periman on the Boards
•       Sophomore Hadley Periman leads the Hurricane in rebounding after seven games with an 8.4 average, while that also ranks second in the American Athletic Conference.
•       Periman has three 10+ rebounding games through the first seven 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 and had 11 rebounds against UAPB.

A Scoring Exhibition in the 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.

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

Tulsa Women Take on TCU Friday in Fort Worth

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Players Mentioned

Mady Cartwright

Delanie Crawford

Katia Gallegos

Hadley Periman

Temira Poindexter

Ahrray Young