Tulsa Women Welcome Memphis for Legend's Day

Saturday, January 25

Tulsa, Okla.

2:00 p.m.

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Tulsa Women Welcome Memphis for Legend's Day

1/24/2025 1:58:00 PM | Women's Basketball

GAME 20:
Tulsa (9-10, 3-4 AAC) vs. Memphis (4-13, 2-4 AAC)
2:00 p.m. CT - Saturday, January 25, 2025
Donald W. Reynolds Center (8,355) • Tulsa, Okla.

RADIO: 1300 AM/93.5 FM The Patriot
LIVE STATS: Tulsa StatBroadcast
TV: ESPN+
GAME NOTES: Tulsa
GAME NOTES: Memphis
AAC Release: Click Here

THE COACHES:
Tulsa: Angie Nelp (Colorado State '02), 4^th year
Career Record: 68-44
School Record: Same

Memphis: Alex Simmons (Tennessee '08), 2^nd year
Career Record: 107-89
School Record: 17-30

Tulsa's Probable Starters
4          F          Lexie Foutch, 6-3, Sr-3L, Fort Gibson, Okla., 1.5 ppg, 2.1 rpg
5          G         Delanie Crawford, 5-11, Sr-3L, Piedmont, Okla., 17.7 ppg, 5.6 rpg
21        G/F      Hadley Periman, 6-2, Jr-2L, Tuttle, Okla., 7.7 ppg, 8.4 rpg, 2.2 apg
22        G         Mady Cartwright, 5-10, So-1L, Greenwood, Ark., 9.6 ppg, 4.5 rpg
24        G         Elise Hill, 5-7, So-1L, Tulsa, Okla., 10.7 ppg, 2.9 rpg, 2.4 apg

Memphis' Probable Starters
1          G         Tilly Boler, 6-1, 5th, Meridian, Miss., 16.9 ppg, 3.0 rpg
6          G         DeeDee Hagemann, 5-7, Sr, Detroit, Mich., 13.0 ppg, 2.3 rpg, 6.3 apg
11        G         Tanyuel Welch, 5-10, RSo, Indianapolis, Ind., 10.1 ppg, 3.9 rpg, 2.9 apg
21        F          Latazia Williamson, 6-1, So, Nashville, Tenn., 2.9 ppg, 2.0 rpg
30        F          Alasia Smith, 5-10, 5th, Johnson City, Tenn., 11.8 ppg, 8.8 rpg

Legend's Day in the Reynolds Center

Saturday is Legend's Day in the Donald W. Reynolds Center.
TU will honor 15 legendary Tulsa women's basketball players at halftime.
The first 500 fans to arrive will receive a free Tulsa women's basketball T-shirt.

Crawford to Receive Game Ball for Breaking TU Career 3-Point Record

The University of Tulsa will honor senior guard Delanie Crawford Saturday for setting the new career 3-point record last time out at UTSA.
The previous record was held by Kelsee Grovey, who had 233 treys in 123 games in four seasons with the Hurricane. Crawford's three triples against the Roadrunners moved her to 235 in her 111th game for TU.
Three minutes prior to tip-off against Memphis, Crawford will be honored during a special game ball presentation.

The Series with UTSA

Saturday will be the 28th meeting between Tulsa and Memphis.
TU has faced the Tigers nearly every season since 2003-04.
Tulsa took control of the series at 14-13 with a win last year in Memphis.
Neither team has had more than a two-game lead in the series in 12 years.
The Hurricane has won three of the last five and four of the last six games.
The last five matchups with Memphis:

            12/30/2023.....Memphis, Tenn............W, 71-62
            02/18/2023.....Tulsa, Okla...................L, 44-69
            01/26/2022.....Tulsa, Okla...................W, 80-68
            01/05/2022.....Memphis, Tenn.............W, 72-69
            01/23/2021.....Memphis, Tenn.............L, 50-59

Taming the Tigers

Memphis enters Saturday's contest with a 4-13 overall record and a 2-4 mark in American Athletic Conference action.
The Tigers snapped a four-game losing streak last time out in a three-point win over fifth-place Tulane.
Memphis fell by just two points against the league's top two teams in UTSA and North Texas
The Tigers were voted to finish seventh this season in the AAC Preseason Coaches' Poll.
A whopping five players average double-digit points this season with fifth-year Tilly Boler leading with 16.9 points per game, the AAC's fourth-best average.
DeeDee Hagemann, holder sister of Devin Hagemann of ECU, is the AAC leader in minutes per game with 35.90.
Memphis features the AAC's top scoring offense with 70.8 points per contest, but ranks dead last in scoring defense (79.6), ranking 349 of 353 ranked programs across Division I.

Home Court Advantage

The Hurricane has been deadly in the Donald W. Reynolds Center under fourth-year head coach Angie Nelp.
TU is 22-5 at home since the start of last season, 33-9 since 2022-23 and 41-14 since Nelp joined the program.
2024-25: TU is 7-3 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.

Dynamic Crawford Can Do It All

It should come to no surprise that returning All-American Delanie Crawford continues to be a scoring leader in the AAC with her 17.7 points-per-game mark, the second-best effort in the league.
The multi-level scorer has earned double-digit points in all but two games, peaking with 36 against East Carolina (12/29) in the conference opener.
She enjoyed her 22nd career 20+ scoring game with 21 points at Temple (1/11)
This season, Crawford is averaging 6.4 FG, 2.7 3PT and 2.2 FT per game.
She's shooting .404 from the field (122-302), .329 in threes (51-155) and .911 at the charity stripe (41-45).
Crawford is also first in the AAC for field goal attempts (302) and 3-point attempts (155), second for field goals made (122), total points (336) and points per game (17.7) and third for 3-pointers per game (2.68) and total threes (51).
Her 155 total 3-point attempts are the fourth-most in Division I.
She has also been one of Tulsa's most prominent rebounders and assisters. Crawford is second on the team with 106 total rebounds, ranking only behind teammate Hadley Periman (8.4 rpg) with a 5.6 average per game.
Crawford also has the third-most assists on the team with 41 (2.2 apg).
She earned her first AAC Weekly Honorable Mention nod this season after earning a double-double with 25 points and 13 rebounds vs. Chicago State. She picked up her second one after averaging 21.5 points across the two West Palm Beach Classic games (Montana and Tennessee), including tying her then-season-high of 26 points in the win over Montana (12/20).
Crawford dropped 36 points on East Carolina (12/29) on a 14-20 clip from the field, 3-7 from three and 5-5 at the line, earning her second career AAC Player of the Week award and first of the season.
Crawford's led Tulsa in scoring 13 times this season and paced the Hurricane in steals seven times, rebounds five times and assists four times.
Finally, she is the longest active tenured AAC player in the league with 3,350 minutes played in 111 games. The next closest is UAB's Maddie Walsh (1,746 minutes, 52 games). Crawford also has the most career field goals (528), 3-pointers (235), free throws made (240) and points (1,531) out of all current AAC players.

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 17 starts in 18 games played.
She came to Tulsa with only three double-digit scoring games in her career. She has six this season.
Bradley is fourth on TU for rebounds (81) and boards per contest (4.5).
Bradley averages 7.9 points, the Hurricane's fourth-best mark.
Bradley had her first double-figure scoring game for Tulsa against Marshall (11/23) in the WBCA Showcase. She also brought down a career-high 10 rebounds, helping her achieve her first career double-double.
The Hurricane is 7-3 when Bradley records three or more field goals.
Bradley took home her first career AAC Weekly Honorable Mention after averaging 16.0 points and 8.0 boards in wins over San Jose State (12/10) and Kansas City (12/15).
She missed the last game for TU against UTSA (1/22) for a medical decision.

Periman Scores, Boards and Blocks

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 top rebounder with 134 boards at a 8.4 rate per game.
She has 521 career rebounds with a career rate of 6.43 per game, marking the seventh-best average among all active players in the AAC.
Only two players in the league - ECU's Amiya Joyner (772) and South Florida's Carla Brito (563) have more career boards than Periman.
Periman also blocks the ball better than most in the conference this season with a league-high 28 rejections at 1.75 per contest, the second-best mark in the league.
She ranks seventh in TU history with 109 career rejections.
Her 17 rebounds against FAU (1/15) is tied for the second-most in a game by an AAC player so far this season.
Periman has led TU in rebounding nine times, all in the last 12 games. She's also led the Hurricane in blocking in 13 games this season.
She has four double-doubles this season with three of them occurring in the last five games. Tulsa is 3-1 when Periman records a double-double.
Four double-doubles is the fourth-most among all AAC players.
Periman came within two assists shy of a triple-double against Charlotte (1/8), finishing with 16 points, 15 boards, eight assists, three assists and two blocks, leading TU in the latter four categories.

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 is fifth in the American Athletic Conference with a .733 free throw percentage (55-75).
Cartwright shot a perfect 8-8 game at the line against Marshall (11/23) for TU's 14th all-time perfect free throw game of over eight attempts.
She has reached double-digit scoring in eight games this season.
On offense, Cartwright leads the team for free throws (55) and free throw attempts (75) and ranks third for points (183) and scoring average (9.6).
On the defensive end, Cartwright is third on the team for total boards (85) and rebounds per game (4.5) and is fourth for steals (22).
Cartwright had her first career double-double against San Jose State (12/10) with 12 points and 10 rebounds against the Spartans.
She had her first 20+ point game against Charlotte (1/8) with 21 points.
Tulsa is 4-2 this season when Cartwright steals the ball two or more times in a game and 5-3 when assisting on three or more field goals.

Rolling Hill Continues to Succeed on the Floor

Sophomore guard Elise Hill has scored in double-figures in 11 of 19 games this season and in 13 of her last 22 games for the Hurricane dating back to the end of her freshman season last year.
She has scored 10 points once this year, 12 points on four occasions, 13 points against Marshall (11/23), 15 points against the league's toughest defense in UTSA (1/4), 16 points against FAU (1/15), 18 points against Grambling (12/5) and a career-best 22 points at North Texas (1/1).
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.
She went 8-14 with six treys for 22 points vs. UNT. It was the seventh-most threes in a game by a TU player.
She has also recorded 5+ assists four times this season and has 46 assists (2.4 apg) so far, the most for Tulsa.
Hill also thrives on defense, using her quickness and speed to steal the ball 25 times this season.
Hill stole the ball from ECU (12/29) eight times for Tulsa's second-highest effort in history, spanning both nonconference and conference play.
She grabbed her first career AAC Weekly Honorable Mention award after she scored a team-leading 18 points with five assists and six rebounds in the win over Grambling (12/5).
Hill has led Tulsa in scoring and assists five times each this year.

Nelp Approaching 70 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.
She is currently 68-44 19 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.
Nelp needs five wins to pass Charlene Thomas-Swinson's (2005-11) 72 wins for third on the all-time TU coach wins list.

Tulsa in Conference Action

Despite sitting at a 3-4 AAC record, Tulsa players are enjoying strong statistical showings through the first six games.
Three Hurricane average double-digits points, including Delanie Crawford (18.3), Elise Hill (11.9), Mady Cartwright (10.3).
Crawford is also second for points (18.29) and steals (2.43), third for threes (2.71), seventh for 3-point shooting (.373) and ninth in field goal shooting (.441) per game.
Hadley Periman is second for rebounding (9.57), minutes (35.66) and blocks (1.71), 11th for assist/turnover ratio (1.50) and 14th for assists (3.00).
Hill currently ranks sixth for 3-point percentage (.381), seventh for made threes (2.29), 12th for steals (1.57) and 20th for points (11.86) per conference game.

Home, Road, Neutral

Tulsa has played 19 games with 10 at home, five on the road and four neutral site games … here's a look at the comparative stats:

Site                  FG                                3Pts                 FT                    REB                  Pts
Home (10)       .406 (260-640)            .308 (77-250) .709 (124-175) 41.6 (416)       72.1 (721)
Road (5)          .423 (129-305)            .360 (49-136) .500 (33-66)    36.6 (183)       68.0 (340)
Neutral (4)      .360 (87-242)              .243 (27-111) .703 (52-74)    34.5 (138)       63.3 (253)
Totals (19)       .401 (476-1187)          .308 (153-497) .663 (209-315) 38.8 (737)       69.2 (1314)
Opp. Totals     .387 (461-1190)          .337 (128-380) .660 (239-362) 40.8 (776)       67.8 (1289)

Fun Facts About Player Names

Tulsa is one of two teams in the country (Sacramento State) to have four players with a last name that starts with the letter "A": Tobi Ademuwagon, Brooklyn Alexander, Kennedi Alexander and Kristol Ayson.
TU is also the only team in the country with over half the roster having last names starting in the letter A-C range. This list includes Tobi Ademuwagon, Brooklyn Alexander, Kennedi Alexander, Kristol Ayson, Paige Bradley, Mady Cartwright, Jade Clack and Delanie Crawford.

Crawford and Periman Climbing the Career Charts

Delanie Crawford through 111 career games in four seasons with the Hurricane stars in multiple top 10 career charts in program history.
She ranks first in three-pointers made with 235, passing Kelsee Grovey's (2012-16) 233 made threes last time out against UTSA (1/22)
Crawford is tied for fourth in career points (1,531), just 29 shy of Temira Poindexter's (2021-24) 1,560 points. Crawford is also sixth in field goals made (521).
Crawford is also ninth in free throw percentage (.816) and 10th in free throws made (240).
Finally, Crawford is 10th all-time in assists with 281. She needs four more to pass Grovey's 284 assists for ninth.
Junior Hadley Periman has played 81 games for Tulsa. She ranks seventh in TU history with 109 blocks, needing 12 more to pass Megan Moody's (2002-06) 120 rejections for sixth.

Going for 20

Tulsa players have combined for nine 20+ point scoring efforts this year.
Delanie Crawford currently has six under her belt with Mady Cartwright, Elise Hill, Hadley Periman each having one.
Tulsa is 5-3 when a player scores over 20 points.
There's been one game where two players scored over 20 in the same game: North Texas (1/1) with Delanie Crawford and Elise Hill each scoring 22.
Crawford has recorded 22 20+ scoring games while Cartwright, Hill and Periman each have one so far in their careers, all in this season.

Going for 30

Tulsa has had a 30+ scorer once this season.
Delanie Crawford collected a career-high 36 points against ECU (12/29) off 14-20 FG, 3-7 3PT and 5-5 FT. It was her fourth career 30+ scoring game and first of this season.
36 points was the third-most scored in a game by a TU player and second all-time in conference games.