Golden Hurricane Welcome UAPB for Education Day Game

Thursday, December 18

Tulsa, Okla.

11:00 a.m.

Tulsa

Arkansas-Pine Bluff

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Golden Hurricane Welcome UAPB for Education Day Game

12/17/2025 1:23:00 PM | Women's Basketball

Game 11:
Tulsa (6-4) vs. Arkansas-Pine Bluff (3-6)
11:00 a.m. CT - Thursday, December 18, 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: Arkansas-Pine Bluff
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THE COACHES:
Tulsa: Angie Nelp (Colorado State '02), 5^th year
Career Record: 82-53
School Record: Same

UAPB: Erica Leak (Louisiana Tech '05), 2^nd year
Career Record: 6-31
School Record: Same

Tulsa's Probable Starters
4          G         Abby Jegede, 5-10, RJr-TR, Toronto, Ontario, 8.9 ppg, 2.5 rpg, 1.1 spg
5          G         Alisha Peavy, 6-2, Fr-HS, San Antonio, Texas, 4.6 ppg, 5.6 rpg, 1.5 apg
17        F          Hannah Riddick, 6-1, RSr-TR, Calgary, Alberta, 12.8 ppg, 8.0 rpg, 1.9 apg
22        G         Mady Cartwright, 5-10, Jr-2L, Greenwood, Ark., 16.3 ppg, 3.7 rpg, 2.2 apg
33        G         Dora Toman, 6-0, Fr-HS, Budapest, Hungary, 8.8 ppg, 5.7 rpg, 3.2 apg

Arkansas-Pine Bluff's Probable Starters
1          G         Jailah Pelly, 5-10, Jr, St. Louis, Mo., 13.1 ppg, 5.4 rpg, 2.9 apg
2          G         Jasmine Davis, 5-8, Jr, Little Rock, Ark., 4.6 ppg, 2.8 rpg, 2.0 apg
3          G         Indiya Bowen, 5-8, Jr, Horn Lake, Miss., 12.8 ppg, 3.6 rpg, 1.4 apg
4          C          Briontanay Marshall, 6-2, Sr, Louisville, Ky., 4.0 ppg, 5.1 rpg
25        F/C       Khaniah Gardner, 6-2, Jr, Chicago, Ill., 4.0 ppg, 4.6 rpg

Education Day in the Reynolds Center

Thursday's contest against Arkansas-Pine Bluff at the Donald W. Reynolds Center is Tulsa's annual Education Day game.
Expect an exciting environment as local teachers and students from Tulsa Public Schools will be there to catch the game.

The Series with Arkansas-Pine Bluff

This will be the sixth all-time meeting between Tulsa and Arkansas-Pine Bluff and the third season in a row Tulsa's faced the Golden Lions.
The Golden Hurricane are a perfect 5-0 against the Lions.
TU is also 18-1 when facing teams from the SWAC Conference.
Last year's meeting ended in dramatic fashion, where Tulsa capped a 17-point comeback with a last-second 3-pointer by former guard Elise Hill to win 63-60 in the season-opener.
The last five matchups with UAPB:

            12/02/2001.....Tulsa, Okla............W, 66-56
            12/14/2002.....Tulsa, Okla............W, 80-46
            12/05/2017.....Tulsa, Okla............W, 87-37
            11/24/2023.....Katy, Texas............W, 90-79 OT
            11/06/2024.....Tulsa, Okla............W, 63-60

Scouting the Golden Lions

Arkansas-Pine Bluff is 3-6 to start the year with a key win over Memphis in the season-opener (69-64).
The Lions are led by Jailah Pelly (13.1 ppg) and Indiya Bowen (12.8) in scoring. Pelly also leads the team with 5.4 boards and 2.9 assists per game.
Last year, UAPB went 3-25 and 1-17 in conference play during head coach Erica Leak's first year with the Lions. She has already matched her year one win total this season with three victories so far this season.

Home Court Advantage

The Golden Hurricane have been deadly in the Donald W. Reynolds Center under fifth-year head coach Angie Nelp.
TU is 16-4 at home since the start of last season, 31-6 since 2023-24, 42-10 since 2022-23 and 50-15 since Nelp joined the program.
2025-26: Tulsa is perfect with a 5-0 home record so far.
2024-25: TU went 11-4 in the Reynolds Center, reaching the 10+ home win milestone for a third season in a row and fourth consecutive winning record.
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 during the WBIT.
2022-23: Tulsa went 11-4 and started the home slate 9-0.
2021-22: The Golden Hurricane enjoyed their first winning home record in three years at 8-5 under Nelp in her first season.
It's the first time since 2003-06 that TU has surpassed 10+ home wins in three consecutive seasons. Nelp is the only coach in program history to accomplish the feat.

Mady Cartwright a Scoring Leader in the American

Junior guard Mady Cartwright is second in the American Conference in points per game (16.30) through six weeks of the 2025-26 season.
She's scored in double-figures in all but two games, had two 20+ point performances and peaked with a career-high 28 points against Kent State in the Bahamas tournament.
Cartwright has led Tulsa in scoring in five of Tulsa's 10 games.
She had a career night to open the season, earning 26 points, and career-highs of nine field goals made, six 3-pointers and 5 steals against New Orleans.
So far, Cartwright is shooting 44.2% from the field (50/113), 36.7% from deep (22/60) and 89.1% from the free throw line (41/46).

Toman is a Two-Time American Freshman of the Week

Tulsa's Dora Toman, a true freshman out of Budapest, Hungary, has two American Freshman of the Week awards, tying Tulane's Mecailin Marshall for the most in the league through six weeks.
After making an immediate impact in her first two collegiate games for the Golden Hurricane, Dora Toman was selected as the first American Conference Freshman of the Week this season (Nov. 10).
Toman finished week one as the league leader in blocks (5) and blocks per game (2.5), while leading all conference freshmen in steals per game (2.5), total steals (5), assists per game (5.0) and total assists (10) through two wins to start the year.
In the Golden Hurricane's 79-59 win over Prairie View A&M, Toman led TU with 14 boards, five assists, three steals and two blocks.
She picked up her second American Freshman of the Week (Dec. 8) after averaged 15.5 points, 5.0 rebounds, 5.0 steals and 4.0 assists in two starts against Mississippi Valley State and Creighton.
She didn't turn the ball over once and totaled eight assists, finishing with an efficient 8.0 assist-to-turnover ratio.
Toman had the best game of her young career against MVSU. She led the Golden Hurricane in nearly every statistical category, finishing with 22 points, nine boards, seven steals and five assists to help Tulsa set the single-game scoring record with 101 points.

A Golden Offense Backed by a Multi-Talented Defense

After 10 games, the Golden Hurricane are second in the American with 73.1 points per game with a high of 101 points against Mississippi Valley State and a low of 58 points at RV/#22 Oklahoma State.
TU's defense has made their presence known in every game so far. Currently, the Golden Hurricane lead the conference in blocking (4.2) while ranking second in rebounding defense (32.7) and third for defensive rebounds per game (26.7).
Hannah Riddick and Dora Toman have powered the defense with a combined 13.7 boards per game, while Toman is third in the American with 2.1 steals per contest.

Excelling at the Free Throw Line

Tulsa has done better than everybody in the American at drawing fouls to get to the charity stripe and scoring at the line.
TU leads the league with 17.1 free throws made and 22.5 free throw attempts per game, which also nationally ranks 16th and 30th, respectively.
Three TU players shoot .800 or better at the line, including Layla-J Cameron (.955 (21/22)), Mady Cartwright (.891 (41-46)) and Abby Jegede (.800 (16-20).
Hannah Riddick and Cartwright each have a double-figure free throw performance at the line this season, with Riddick making 13 against Oral Roberts and Cartwright draining 11 versus Kent State.

Riddick and Duncan Return to the Court

Redshirt senior forward Hannah Riddick has succeeded on the court since returning to action, averaging 12.8 points and eight rebounds in eight games.
Riddick, a former four-year letterwinner for Memphis, exited the 2024-25 season early last year with a season-ending injury on Nov. 13, 2024, against Ball State.
After transferring to Tulsa over the offseason, she returned to the court for the Golden Hurricane exactly one year removed from her injury last season - on November 13, 2025, against Houston Christian.
In her return, Riddick came off the bench and scored 12 points in the 75-67 win over Houston Christian to give TU its third win of the season.
Since returning, Riddick has had two double-doubles, four double-figure scoring games, including two 20+ point contests, and three double-digit rebounding games.
Riddick's led TU in boards four times and scoring, assists and blocks twice.
Redshirt senior Shamaryah Duncan saw her first action as a Golden Hurricane against MVSU, earning six points and two boards in 11 minutes.
Her last game was on March 21, 2024, in the WBIT first round when she played for North Texas. A medical decision led to redshirting all of last season and the first seven games of this season.

Tulsa Freshmen Shine Through First 10 Games

Tulsa has put together six wins in 10 games thanks in part to significant contributions by three true freshmen, two of which have started every game.
Alisha Peavy (San Antonio, Texas) and Dora Toman (Budapest, Hungary) started in their first 10 collegiate contests for TU, with Peavy producing 4.6 points and 5.6 boards per game, while Toman (8.8 ppg/5.7 rpg/3.2 apg) has led Tulsa in assists five times, boards and steals four times, blocks three times and points twice.
Haven Fisher, from Prior Lake, Minn., has scored in double-figures three times, most recently against Mississippi valley State with 13 points. She currently has 7.3 points per game off the bench in 18.3 minutes per contest.
Fisher even had a third-quarter buzzer-beater against Prairie View, helping TU win that game by 20 points (79-59).

Nelp's Success in the 918

Head Coach Angie Nelp earned her 73rd win for the Golden Hurricane at UAB (2/22) in a 72-68 overtime comeback thriller, surpassing Charlene Thomas-Swinson's (2005-11) 72 wins for third on the all-time TU coach wins list.
Nelp is currently 82-53 entering game No. 11 of her fifth season.
She needs 10 more wins to pass Kathy McConnell-Miller (1999-05) for the second-most wins in program history.
No previous Tulsa coach has ever reached 80 wins in just their fifth season.
Only two other TU head coaches won more than 80 games in their careers.
Nelp is the only coach in program history to earn 10+ home wins in three straight seasons.
Nelp is also the only coach to lead Tulsa to three postseasons.
She is the only coach to lead Tulsa to multiple 5-0 starts to a season.
Finally, Nelp is the only TU coach to have more than two consecutive winning seasons leading the Golden Hurricane.

Last Time Out: Ranked Cowgirls Too Much for Tulsa

Tulsa fell to RV/#22 Oklahoma State (11-2) on Monday, 90-58, at Gallagher-Iba Arena in Stillwater, with the home team capitalizing on 33 points off turnovers.
The Golden Hurricane's bench contributed 30 points, but the team could not overcome 31 turnovers on the floor.
Junior transfer RyLee Grays had her best career game with a team-leading 14 points off the bench, including her first career 3-pointer and a 7/8 clip from the free throw line.
Jade Clack also finished in double-figures with 11 points and set a career-high in assists with five on the night.

An International Take on Golden Hurricane Basketball

Tulsa's 2025-26 squad features seven international student-athletes on the 15-player roster.
No Angie Nelp team has ever had more than one player from outside the United States. She's also only had two international players in total before this season (Iceland's Elin Hrafnkelsdottir in 2021-22 and Spain's Queen Ikhiuwu in 2023-24).
This year, Layla-J Cameron (Gold Coast, Australia), Laura Di Stefano (Rome Italy), Abby Jegede (Toronto, Canada), Gina Nikola Pirjak (Jezera, Croatia), Hannah Riddick (Calgary, Alberta), Teresa Seppala (Tampere, Finland) and Dora Toman (Budapest, Hungary) are all set to don the Royal Blue and Old Gold for the first time this season.
Di Stefano (Italy), Seppala (Finland), Pirjak (Croatia) and Toman (Hungary) are the first players from their respective countries to play for the Golden Hurricane women's basketball team.

On the Roster

TU returns one starter and three of 12 letterwinners from last year.
Mady Cartwright is the lone returning starter, while returning letterwinner Jade Clack and squad member Brynn Eshoo are back for their second seasons at TU.
The three returners accounted for 21.72% of TU's minutes (1,401/6,450) and 22.8% of its points (492/2,158) last year.
The Golden Hurricane coaching staff hit the transfer portal and secured seven transfer players over the offseason. They are Layla-J Cameron (Dodge City Community College), Laura Di Stefano (Salt Lake Community College), Shamaryah Duncan (North Texas), RyLee Grays (Virginia), Abby Jegede (Northeastern), Hannah Riddick (Memphis) and Teresa Seppala (Siena).
The five true freshman this year are Haven Fisher (Prior Lake, Minn.), Josie Megehee (Shawnee, Okla.), Gina Nikola Pirjak (Jezera, Croatia), Alisha Peavy (San Antonio, Texas) and Dora Toman (Budapest, Hungary).

2025-26 TICKETS
Single-game tickets are now on sale for $13 per ticket per game for ages 4 and older and can be purchased in advance at TulsaHurricane.com or at the entrance. Season tickets also start at just $75. Season ticket members will receive 1 (one) ALL-IN-1 pass that will be good for all 2025 TU Women's Basketball regular-season home games in the Donald W. Reynolds Center. No refunds for canceled games due to weather-related or any other cause. CLICK HERE to start the process of ordering tickets or call 918-631-4688.

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