TU Women Begin Road Tilt at East Carolina

Tuesday, January 13

Greenville, N.C.

5:00 p.m.

Tulsa

East Carolina

Photo by: Anais Moua

TU Women Begin Road Tilt at East Carolina

1/12/2026 4:49:00 PM | Women's Basketball

Game 16:
Tulsa (11-4, 3-0 American) vs. ECU (11-6, 3-1 American)
5:00 p.m. CT - Tuesday, January 13, 2026
Williams Arena at Minges Coliseum (7,100) • Greenville, N.C.

RADIO: 1300 AM/93.5 FM The Patriot
LIVE STATS: Tulsa StatBroadcast
TV: ESPN+
GAME NOTES: Tulsa
GAME NOTES: East Carolina
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THE COACHES:
Tulsa: Angie Nelp (Colorado State '02), 5^th year
Career Record: 87-53
School Record: Same

East Carolina: Kim McNeill (Richmond '00), 7^th year
Career Record: 98-136
School Record: 98-98

Tulsa's Probable Starters
4          G         Abby Jegede, 5-10, RJr-TR, Toronto, Ontario, 8.2 ppg, 2.9 rpg
15        G         Jade Clack, 6-2, Jr-1L, Buda, Texas, 9.4 ppg, 4.1 rpg, 1.6 apg
17        F          Hannah Riddick, 6-1, RSr-TR, Calgary, Alberta, 14.5 ppg, 7.9 rpg, 2.2 apg
22        G         Mady Cartwright, 5-10, Jr-2L, Greenwood, Ark., 17.4 ppg, 3.5 rpg, 2.3 apg
33        G         Dora Toman, 6-0, Fr-HS, Budapest, Hungary, 8.6 ppg, 5.3 rpg, 3.3 apg

East Carolina's Probable Starters
2          G         Savannah Brooks, 5-9, Sr, Taneytown, Md., 8.6 ppg, 4.4 rpg, 2.1 apg
4          G         Kennedy Fauntleroy, 5-7, Sr, Upper Marlboro, Md., 12.6 ppg, 3.0 rpg, 3.9 apg
5          G         Jayla Hearp, 5-9, RJr, Hampton, Va., 9.3 ppg, 3.6 rpg, 1.2 apg
22        F          Anzhané Hutton, 6-0, Gr, Dallas, Texas, 9.9 ppg, 6.1 rpg, 1.1 spg
31        F          Keanna Rembert, 6-2, Sr, Raleigh, N.C., 9.4 ppg, 4.2 rpg, 1.0 apg

The Series with East Carolina

This will be the 33rd all-time meeting between Tulsa and East Carolina.
TU leads the series 17-15.
ECU has won three of the last four meetings.
Tulsa is 6-8 when playing the Pirates in Greenville. The Golden Hurricane seek their first road win at ECU since 2022.
The two teams split the series last season, with the home team finishing on top.
The last five matchups with East Carolina:

            02/08/2025.....Greenville, N.C.......L, 64-73
            12/29/2024.....Tulsa, Okla............W, 93-84
            03/11/2024.....Fort Worth, Texas...L, 71-75 (American quarterfinal)
            02/01/2024.....Greenville, N.C.......L, 48-56
            12/30/2022.....Greenville, N.C......W, 55-47

Scouting the ECU Pirates

ECU is 4th in the American with a 3-1 league record and an 11-6 overall mark.
Each of East Carolina's league wins have come against three of the bottom four teams in standings (UAB, Memphis, Wichita State).
Currently at NET 164, ECU's best win so far came against NET 121 Illinois State in a neutral tournament in Puerto Rico.
Junior guard Kaylah Turner currently leads the American in points per game (16.64), total points (233) and 3-point field goal percentage (.424).
The Pirates feature a tough defense led by Kennedy Fauntleroy, who leads the American with 2.82 steals per game and 48 total steals.
As a unit, ECU is first in the league for steals (11.4) and turnover margin (+5.71).
Last year, the Pirates went 17-15 overall and finished seventh in the conference at 8-10 with a quarterfinal exit in the American Championship.

Tulsa Tied for First at 3-0 in American Action

Tulsa is in a three-way tie for first place in the American with Rice and UTSA with a perfect 3-0 record.
The last time TU started 3-0 in league play was the 2022-23 season, where the Golden Hurricane would go on to finish 7-8.

Riddick Averaging a Double-Double in Conference Play

Redshirt senior forward Hannah Riddick has been the star of the show through the first three games of American action, putting up 20.0 points and 11.0 boards.
She finished with 16 points and 11 boards against Wichita State and earned 22 points and 11 rebounds in each of the wins over Tulane and Temple.
Riddick was responsible for the go-ahead and-1 layup in the waning seconds of the Tulane game.
She led Tulsa's 17-point comeback against the Green Wave with 12 points and 8 rebounds in the fourth quarter alone.
Through 12 starts in 13 games played, Riddick has led the Golden Hurricane in boards seven times, blocks five times, scoring three times, assists twice and steals once so far this season.
She averages 13.8 points, 7.7 rebounds and 2.1 assists per game.
She leads the American with a .493 field goal percentage, while her scoring and rebounding averages rank fourth and eight, respectively.
Riddick is also second in total free throw attempts (76) behind Mady Cartwright, fourth in total free throws made (53), seventh in defensive rebounding (5.38), eighth in free throw percentage (.697) and 13th in blocking (0.77) and offensive rebounding (2.54).
She's also fourth in the league with five double-doubles.
TU is 4-1 when Riddick earns a double-double.

Mady Cartwright a Scoring Leader in the American

Junior guard Mady Cartwright is second in the American Conference in points per game (17.40) through 10 weeks of the 2025-26 season.
She's scored in double-figures in all but three games, has five 20+ point performances and one 30+ point performance, peaking with a career-high of 31 points against Temple last time out.
She's third in the league with five 20-point games and one of four players with a 30-point showing.
Tulsa is 8-2 when Cartwright scores 15+ points and 4-1 when scoring over 20.
She took home her first American Player of the Week (Dec. 22) award after leading Tulsa to a win over Florida with 26 points.
Her second American Player of the Week (Jan. 12) came after she averaged 25.5 points and 4.0 rebounds in wins over Tulane and Temple. She scored a career-high 31 points and went 5-for-5 in 3-pointers against Temple, becoming the first player in team history to accomplish that feat. She's also the first player in the country so far this season to land five 3's without a miss while scoring over 30 points.
Cartwright has led TU in scoring in seven of the team's 15 games.
So far, Cartwright is shooting 42.4% from the field, 38.7% from deep and 87.8% from the free throw line (79/80).

Toman is a Four-Time American Freshman of the Week

Tulsa's Dora Toman, a true freshman out of Budapest, Hungary, leads the league with four American Freshman of the Week awards.
The rising star averages 8.6 points, 5.3 rebounds, 3.3 assists, 2.1 steals and 0.6 blocks per game with a 1.4 assist/turnover.
So far, she has led the Golden Hurricane in assists nine times, boards and steals six times, blocks three times and points twice.
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).
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 averaging 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.
Then, she picked up her third American Freshman of the Week (Jan. 5) after stuffing the stat sheet yet again in the conference-opening win over Wichita State, finishing with eight points, five assists (team-high), two steals and two rebounds.
Her fourth American Freshman of the Week (Jan. 12) came after putting up 10.0 points, 4.5 assists, 3.5 rebounds and 2.0 steals and wins over Tulane and Temple.
She enters the upcoming came with four double-figure scoring games.
Tulsa is 4-0 when Toman scores over 10 points.
TU is also 7-0 when she has four or more assists in a game. She currently has five games with five assists.

A Golden Offense Backed by a Multi-Talented Defense

After 15 games, the Golden Hurricane are first in the American with 73.73 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. Currently, the Golden Hurricane lead the conference in rebounding defense (33.20) and blocking (4.07) and second in rebounding margin (+4.87) per game.
Hannah Riddick and Dora Toman have powered the defense with a combined 13.25 boards per game
Toman is seventh in the American with 2.07 steals, while Jade Clack is 11th with 0.85 blocks per game.

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 16.53 free throws made and 22.47 free throw attempts per game, which also nationally ranks 15th and 19th, respectively.
Two TU players shoot .800 or better at the line, including Layla-J Cameron (.955) and Mady Cartwright (.878 (79-90)).
Cartwright's free throw percentage of .878 is second in the American and 34th in the country.
Hannah Riddick and Cartwright have combined for four double-figure free throw performances at the line this season, with Riddick making 13 against Oral Roberts and Cartwright draining 10 against Temple and 11 versus Kent State and Tulane.

20-Point Scorers

Tulsa players have combined for 11 20+ point scoring efforts this year.
Mady Cartwright leads the way with five games scoring over 20 points, while Hannah Riddick has four, and Abby Jegede and Dora Toman each have one.
TU is 7-2 when a player scores over 20 points.
There's been two games where two Tulsa players reached 20 points in a single game this season. It was Hannah Riddick and Mady Cartwright in back-to-back wins against Tulane and Temple.
So far, Jegede and Riddick each have eight career 20+ point games, while Cartwright has seven.

30-Point Scorers

TU has had one 30+ point performance so far this season, and that belongs to Mady Cartwright.
Cartwright scored a career-high 31 points in a home win against Temple, landing 8-13 field goals, going a perfect 5-5 on 3-pointers and going 10-11 from the charity stripe.
Cartwright is one of four players in the American with at least one game scoring over 30 points.

Riddick and Duncan Return to the Court

Redshirt senior forward Hannah Riddick has succeeded on the court since returning to action, averaging 14.5 points and 7.9 rebounds in 13 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, while playing for the Tigers in a road loss at Ball State.
After transferring to Tulsa during this past offseason, she returned to the court on November 13, 2025, against Houston Christian — exactly one year removed from her injury last season.
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 five double-doubles, eight double-figure scoring games, including four 20+ point contests, and six double-digit rebounding games.
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.
Since returning, she's averaged 2.0 points in 8.4 minutes in six games.
Duncan is one of 49 Division I players to be playing in their 6th year of college hoops.

Tulsa Freshmen Shine Through First 15 Games

Tulsa has put together 11 wins in 15 games thanks in part to significant contributions by three true freshmen, one of whom has started in every game.
Dora Toman (Budapest, Hungary) has started every game for TU, while Alisha Peavy (San Antonio, Texas) has starts in 10 of 15 games.
Peavy is producing 4.1 points and 4.4 boards per game, while Toman (8.6 ppg/5.3 rpg/3.3 apg) has led Tulsa in assists nine times, boards and steals six times, blocks three times and points twice.
Haven Fisher, from Prior Lake, Minn., has scored in double-figures three times so far and currently has 5.3 points in 15.3 minutes per game off the bench.
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 is currently 87-53 entering game No. 16 of her fifth season leading the Golden Hurricane
She currently stands in third place on the all-time TU coaching wins list behind Kathy McConnell-Miller's (1999-05) 91 wins and Matilda Mossman's (2011-2021) 119 wins.
Nelp needs just five more wins to pass McConnell-Miller for the second-most wins in program history.
She passed Charlene Thomas-Swinson (2005-11) for third on the list after beating UAB on the road last season for her 73rd win.
No previous Tulsa coach has ever reached 80 wins in just their fifth season.
Only two other TU head coaches won more than 85 games in their careers.
Nelp is the only coach in program history to earn 10+ home wins in three straight seasons.
She is also the only coach to lead Tulsa to three postseasons.
She is the only coach to lead Tulsa to multiple 6-0 starts to a season.
Finally, Nelp is the only TU coach to have more than two consecutive winning seasons leading the Golden Hurricane.

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