Hurricane Women Hit the Road for San Jose State

Tuesday, December 10

San Jose, Calif.

8:00 p.m.

Tulsa

San Jose State

Photo by: Bill Powell

Hurricane Women Hit the Road for San Jose State

12/9/2024 8:01:00 AM | Women's Basketball

GAME 9:
Tulsa (3-5) vs. San Jose State (6-4)
8:00 p.m. CT - Tuesday, December 10, 2024
Provident Credit Union Event Center (5,000) • San Jose, Calif.

RADIO: 93.5 The Patriot
LIVE STATS: Click Here
TV: Mountain West Network
GAME NOTES: Tulsa
GAME NOTES: San Jose State
The American Release: Click Here

THE COACHES:
Tulsa: Angie Nelp (Colorado State '02), 4^th year
Career Record: 62-39
School Record: Same

San Jose State: April Phillips (Xavier '10), 3^rd year
Career Record: 19-53
School Record: Same

Tulsa's Probable Starters
5          G         Delanie Crawford, 5-11, Sr-3L, Piedmont, Okla., 17.3 ppg, 6.1 rpg
7          G         Paige Bradley, 5-10, RJr-TR, Dallas, Texas, 6.4 ppg, 4.6 rpg, 1.9 apg
21        G/F      Hadley Periman, 6-2, Jr-2L, Tuttle, Okla., 5.0 ppg, 6.2 rpg
22        G         Mady Cartwright, 5-10, So-1L, Greenwood, Ark., 8.5 ppg, 5.1 rpg
24        G         Elise Hill, 5-7, So-1L, Tulsa, Okla., 11.0 ppg, 4.3 rpg, 1.8 apg

San Jose State's Probable Starters
11        G         Kiani Lockett, 5-8, Jr, Minneapolis, Minn., 8.8 ppg, 2.8 rpg, 2.3 apg
14        F          Mallory Brake, 6-0, Gr, Hastings, Minn., 4.5 ppg, 4.0 rpg
15        G         Lauren Jensen, 5-10, Sr, Lakeville, Minn., 21.5 ppg, 4.2 rpg, 3.5 apg
21        G         Molly Mogensen, 5-7, Gr, Farmington, Minn., 8.7 ppg, 4.5 apg
30        G/F      Morgan Maly, 6-1, Sr, Crete, Neb., 17.8 ppg, 3.5 rpg, 2.8 apg

The Series with San Jose State

Tuesday marks the 20th meeting between Tulsa and San Jose State ... TU currently holds a slight edge at 10-9.
It's the second game of the current home-and-home series as Tulsa hosted San Jose State in 2022 and won by 30, 74-44.
The two teams used to be perennial opponents during the Hurricane's tenure in the Western Athletic Conference from 1996-05.
When playing the Spartans in San Jose, TU is 3-5
Tulsa is 3-3 all-time against Mountain West opponents.
The past five matchups with San Jose State:

            11/10/2022.....Tulsa, Okla.............W, 74-44
            03/09/2005.....Reno, Nev...............L, 60-63*
            02/26/2005.....San Jose, Calif........L, 70-79
            01/27/2005.....Tulsa, Okla..............L, 53-61
            02/28/2004.....Tulsa, Okla.............W, 66-56

            * 2005 WAC Championship Quarterfinal

Scouting the Spartans

Tulsa seeks its first road of the year after falling to Missouri State in Springfield and dropped games to Georgia and Marshall in Orlando earlier this season.
San Jose State is 6-4 on the year, highlighted by wins over Xavier, Kennesaw State and Saint Mary's ... last time out, they suffered an 82-71 loss to Loyola Marymount at home.
Head Coach April Phillips is in her third year at the helm. Her Spartans went 6-25 in her first season and 7-24 last year and has already earned six wins so far this season.
The Spartans are led by Djessira Diawara, a 6-3 forward. She paces the team with 10.1 points and 7.5 rebounds per game.
SJSU's designated sharpshooter is Sydni Summers, who leads the Mountain West with 24 three-pointers, averaging to 2.4 per game.
As a team, San Jose State has excelled at winning the rebound battle against opposing teams, entering Tuesday's game with a +8.0 rebounding margin - the Mountain West's best mark and the nation's 47th-best average.

Dynamic Crawford Scores and Boards

Returning All-American senior guard Delanie Crawford is Tulsa's scoring and rebounding leader through the first eight games.
The multi-level scorer has reached double-figure points in all but one game, peaking with 26 points against Marshall (11/23) in the WBCA Showcase.
She enjoyed her 18th career 20+ scoring game against Chicago State (11/27) and had 18 points last time out against Grambling.
This season, Crawford is averaging 17.3 points off 5.8 FG, 2.4 3PT and 3.4 FT per game.
She's shooting .357 from the field (46-129), .292 in threes (19-65) and .871 at the charity stripe (27-31).
Crawford leads The American for field goal attempts (129), second for points per game (17.3) and free throw percentage (.871) and third for points (138) and three-point attempts (65).
She has also emerged as a rebounding leader for the Hurricane with a team-leading 49 boards so far. She ranks just behind teammate Hadley Periman (6.2 rpg) with 6.1 rebounds per contest.

Hill Stepping up on Offense

Returning sophomore guard Elise Hill has scored in double-figures in eight of her last 11 games for the Golden Hurricane dating back to the end of last year.
She has scored exactly 12 points four times this year, 13 points against Marshall (11/23) and a season-high 18 points last time out against Grambling (12/5).
Tulsa is 2-2 when Hill records five or more field goals in a game.
Hill called her own number in the waning seconds of the season-opener against UAPB, sinking the game-winning three-pointer with less than a second to go to seal the 63-60 win.

Cartwright the Swiss Army Knife

Mady Cartwright, a sophomore guard, shines on both offense and defense for the Hurricane.
She is one of three players to start every game this season, along with Delanie Crawford and Elise Hill.
Cartwright leads the American Athletic Conference with an .880 free throw percentage (22-25).
She had a perfect 8-8 game at the line against Marshall (11/23) for the program's 14th all-time perfect free throw game over eight attempts.
She has reached double-digits in scoring in three of the last four games.
On offense, Cartwright ranks third on the team for points (68), scoring average (8.5) and second for free throws (22).
On the defensive end, Cartwright is second on the team for total boards (41), third for rebounds per game (5.1) and steals (1.1 for 8 steals) and fifth for blocks (3).
Tulsa is 3-0 this season when Cartwright steals the ball two or more times in a game ... she peaked with four against Chicago State (11/27).

Tidbits on the TCU Transfer Paige Bradley

Redshirt junior Paige Bradley, an offseason transfer from TCU, has made an immediate impact for the Hurricane with seven starts in eight games played.
Bradley is third on the team in rebounds (37) and fourth for boards per contest (4.6).
She averages 6.4 points, the Hurricane's fifth-best mark.
Bradley had her first double-figure scoring game for Tulsa against Marshall (11/23). She had three with the Horned Frogs in her two active seasons (injured her junior year in 2023-24).
She also brought down a career-high 10 rebounds against Marshall (11/23), helping her achieve her first double-double.

Periman on the Blocks and Boards

After missing the first two games of the season and the Chicago State game (11/27) with injury, junior guard/forward Hadley Periman is still the Hurricane's best rebounder with a 6.2 average per game this season.
She has 418 career rebounds with a career rate of 5.97 per game, marking the 11th-best average among all active players in The American.
Only two players in the league - ECU's Amiya Joyner (676) and South Florida's Carla Brito (480) have more career boards than Periman.
Periman also blocks the ball well with eight blocks on the year at a 1.6 average. She had three in each of the last two games against Creighton (12/1) and Grambling (12/5).
She ranks eighth in program history with 89 career rejections.

Ayson Adds Veteran Experience to Tulsa

Kristol Ayson, a senior transfer from Jacksonville State and Arizona Western, has seen action in all eight games for the Hurricane, averaging 21.6 minutes per game off the bench.
She leads TU with 13 steals at 1.6 per contest.
Ayson has hit three assists in three separate games and had a 13-point game against Oral Roberts.
Last time out, she had five rebounds against Grambling (12/5).
Ayson came to Tulsa after leading Jax State with 8.1 points, 1.7 assists and 1.1 steals per game while securing 3.7 rebounds in 26.1 minutes per contest.
At Arizona Western, a junior college, she recorded three double-doubles and 34 double-digits scoring games across two seasons. She was an NJCAA All-American Honorable Mention as a sophomore after averaging 14.9 points, 5.5 rebounds, and 2.7 assists per game.

TU Defense Finds Ways to Slow Down Opponents

The Hurricane has excelled at turning opponents over and stealing the ball this season, ranking third in the American Athletic Conference with 78 steals at 9.75 per game, led by Kristol Ayson's 13 steals at a 1.6 average.
Tulsa has outstolen opponents 78-66 on the year.
The Hurricane is 2-2 when recording double-digits steals as a team. They peaked with 14 against Chicago State (11/27).
Tulsa is handling the ball better than its opponents through the first eight games of the season with a positive turnover margin per game (+0.5), the fifth-highest among all American Athletic Conference teams.
On the block, Tulsa is ranked fourth in the league with 3.88 blocks per game. Hadley Periman and Jade Clack have led the way in blocks with Periman averaging 1.6 blocks per game and recording three stuffs in each of the last two games while Clack has five blocks on the season.

Deadly Free Throw Shooters

Tulsa has been very effective at the line, thanks in part to The American's top two free throw shooters in Mady Cartwright and Delanie Crawford.
Cartwright is 22-25 for an .880 mark while Crawford is right behind at .862 after shooting 25-29.
Cartwright has had three perfect games from the stripe, including a 4-4 mark in the season-opener against Arkansas-Pine Bluff (11/6), an impressive 8-8 tally against Marshall (11/23) for Tulsa's 14th-ever perfect free throw game when making over eight free throws and another 4-4 contest against Chicago State (11/27).
Crawford had an 8-9 game against Arkansas-Pine Bluff (11/6) and a 5-5 contest against Georgia (11/21) ... she's gone 2-2 in each of the last three games.
Paige Bradley is 8-9 (.889) on the year in free throws at 1.0 per contest ... she is just outside the threshold of 2.5 FT per game to be ranked in the league.
Tulsa ranks second in the conference with a team free throw average of .720.
TU shot its 19th perfect free throw game in program history against Chicago State (11/27), going 10-10 from the line … it's TU's third time ever having a perfect free throw game with over 10 attempts (10-10 vs. Hawaii (2-27-03); 12-12 vs. Nevada (3-8-03).
The Hurricane went 10-14 in free throws in the fourth quarter to outscore the UAPB Lions 15-5 in the final period to complete a 17-point comeback victory, the largest in school history.

Home Court Advantage

The Hurricane has been deadly in the Donald W. Reynolds Center under fourth-year head coach Angie Nelp.
TU is 18-4 at home since the start of last season, 29-8 since 2022-23 and 37-13 since Nelp joined the program.
2024-25: TU is 3-2 at home so far this season.
2023-24: The Hurricane enjoyed their winningest home record in program history, going 15-2 under the lights of the Reynolds Center, including 2-1 in postseason play in the WBIT.
2022-23: Tulsa went 11-4 and started the home slate 9-0.
2021-22: The Hurricane enjoyed its first winning home record in three years at 8-5 under Nelp in her first season.

Crawford and Periman Climbing the Career Charts

Delanie Crawford through 100 career games in four seasons with the Hurricane stars in numerous top 10 career charts in program history.
She ranks third in three-pointers made with 203 ... she has a chance to set the team record this season as she is just 19 treys behind Kara Pongonis-Paslay's (2002-06) 222 and 30 behind Kelsee Grovey's (2012-16) 233.
Crawford is also seventh for field goals made (452) and in career points (1,333).
Hadley Periman has played 70 games for Tulsa as a junior. She ranks eighth in TU history with 89 blocks and needs six more to pass Kendrian Elliott's (2016-20) 94 rejections.

Turning Around the Slow Starts

Losses for the Hurricane have been a tale of two halves as poor first halves have hurt TU's ability to put some games away.
Tulsa has been outscored 292-240 through eight first halves, while outscoring opponents 265-214 in second halves.
Tulsa has been looking to turn around its slow starts in three of the last four games, outscoring Marshall 45-43, Chicago State 42-29 and Grambling State 37-31 in first halves.
Quarter Breakdowns:

                                    Q1       Q2       Q3       Q4       OT       Total
            Tulsa               120      120      133      132      11        516
            Opponents      139      153      115      99        15        461

Nelp Over Halfway to Century Mark in Wins.

Tulsa's Angie Nelp won her 60th career game in her four seasons with a 63-60 win against Arkansas-Pine Bluff in the 2024-25 season opener on Nov. 6, 2024.
She is currently 62-39 six games into her fourth season.
No previous Tulsa coach had reached 50 wins in their first three seasons … only three other Tulsa head coaches won more than 60 games in their careers.