Golden Hurricane Welcome Florida Atlantic for Tuesday Showdown

Tuesday, January 27

Tulsa, Okla.

4:00 p.m.

Tulsa

Florida Atlantic

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Golden Hurricane Welcome Florida Atlantic for Tuesday Showdown

1/27/2026 9:41:00 AM | Women's Basketball

Game 20:
Tulsa (13-6, 5-2) vs. Florida Atlantic (9-11, 3-5)
4:00 p.m. CT - Tuesday, January 27, 2026
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: Florida Atlantic
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THE COACHES:
Tulsa: Angie Nelp (Colorado State '02), 5^th year
Career Record: 89-55
School Record: Same

Florida Atlantic: LeAnn Freeland (Southern Indiana '98), 1^st year
Career Record: 372-170 (18^th year overall)
School Record: 9-11

Tulsa's Probable Starters
4          G         Abby Jegede, 5-10, RJr-TR, Toronto, Ontario, 7.7 ppg, 3.7 rpg
15        G         Jade Clack, 6-2, Jr-1L, Buda, Texas, 9.9 ppg, 4.3 rpg, 1.5 apg
17        F          Hannah Riddick, 6-1, RSr-TR, Calgary, Alberta, 14.3 ppg, 6.8 rpg, 1.9 apg
22        G         Mady Cartwright, 5-10, Jr-2L, Greenwood, Ark., 15.5 ppg, 3.6 rpg, 2.2 apg
33        G         Dora Toman, 6-0, Fr-HS, Budapest, Hungary, 8.9 ppg, 5.3 rpg, 2.9 apg

Florida Atlantic's Probable Starters
2          G         Grace Carstensen, 5-11, Jr, Hinsdale, Ill., 8.5 ppg, 1.4 rpg
3          G         Jess Moors, 6-0, Gr, Auckland, New Zealand, 7.8 ppg, 4.2 rpg, 3.0 apg
5          G         Ineivi Plata, 5-3, So, White Plains, N.Y., 3.3 ppg, 1.5 rpg, 1.6 apg
21        G         Madi Gewirtz, 5-11, So, Gilbert, Ariz., 6.4 ppg, 3.3 rpg, 1.2 bpg
22        F          Vivian Onugha, 6-2, Jr, Lagos, Nigeria, 9.7 ppg, 6.2 rpg

The Series with Florida Atlantic

This will be the fifth all-time game between Tulsa and Florida Atlantic.
TU leads the series 3-1 with wins in the last three consecutive matchups.
Tuesday will be the third meeting played in Tulsa. TU won last year's game in the 918 by 15 points (79-64).
All previous matchups with Florida Atlantic:

            01/15/2025.....Tulsa, Okla..............W, 79-64
            01/13/2024.....Boca Raton, Fla......W, 81-72
            11/26/2021.....Boca Raton, Fla......W, 70-68
            02/08/2014.....Tulsa, Okla..............L, 86-91

Scouting the Florida Atlantic Owls

FAU is under direction of first-year head coach LeAnn Freeland, who had a 17-year career record of 363-205 between stops at UIndy and Nova Southeastern.
Florida Atlantic currently holds a 3-5 record in American Conference action, paired with an 9-11 overall record.
The Owls are also 12th out of the 13 teams in the league with a No. 246 NET ranking.
FAU's best NET win came in a 64-63 home victory over No. 79 South Florida.
Grace Carstensen is the league leader in 3-point percentage at .433.
Her teammate Vivian Onugha leads the Owls with 9.7 points and 6.2 rebounds.
The Owls have good depth, boasting the American's top scoring bench with 24.5 bench points per game.
On the opposite end, FAU is 11th in the league in scoring offense (62.9) and rebounding margin (-2.6), while ranking 12th in the conference in field goal percentage defense (.424), rebounds per game (34.7) and scoring margin (-5.1).
Last year, the Owls finished last in the American with a 3-15 league mark.

Home Court Advantage

The Golden Hurricane have been deadly in the Donald W. Reynolds Center under fifth-year head coach Angie Nelp.
TU is 19-5 at home since the start of last season, 34-7 since 2023-24, 45-11 since 2022-23 and 53-16 since Nelp joined the program.
2025-26: Tulsa won their first eight consecutive home games and currently sit at 8-1.
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.

Riddick's Rocking the Court in American Action

Redshirt senior forward Hannah Riddick has been one of the stars of the show through the first seven games of American action, putting up 16.43 points and 6.57 boards per conference game.
Her 16.43 points per game in conference play ranks third in the league.
She also earned three double-doubles in the first three games.
Riddick finished with 16 points and 11 boards in the conference opener 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 16 starts in 17 games played, Riddick has led the Golden Hurricane in boards and blocks seven times, scoring four times, assists four times and steals twice.
Overall, she averages 14.3 points, 6.8 rebounds and 1.9 assists per game.
Riddick's scoring and rebounding averages rank fourth and 11th, respectively, in the American.
Riddick is also second in the American in field goal percentage (Minimum 5 FGM/G average) at 49.2%.
She's also fourth in the league with five double-doubles.
TU is 4-1 when Riddick earns a double-double.

Toman is a Five-Time American Freshman of the Week

Tulsa's Dora Toman, a true freshman out of Budapest, Hungary, leads the league with five American Freshman of the Week awards.
The rising star averages 8.9 points, 5.3 rebounds, 2.9 assists, 2.0 steals and 0.5 blocks per game with a 1.2 assist/turnover ratio.
So far, she has led the Golden Hurricane in assists 10 times, steals eight times, boards seven times and scoring and blocks three times.
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.
Finally, her fifth American Freshman of the Week (Jan. 26) was earned after averaging 12 points and team-leading marks of six rebounds and three steals per game against Rice and North Texas.
She enters the upcoming came with six double-figure scoring games so far.
Tulsa is 6-0 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.

Mady Cartwright a Scoring Leader in the American

Junior guard Mady Cartwright is second in the American Conference in points per game (15.53) through 19 games of the 2025-26 season.
She's scored in double-figures in all but six games, has five 20+ point performances and one 30+ point performance, peaking with a career-high of 31 points against Temple.
She's first in the American in free throw percentage (.879), third in the league with five 20-point games and is one of six players with a 30+ point game.
Tulsa is 8-3 when Cartwright scores 15+ points and 4-1 when scoring over 20.
Cartwright is the league leader in Player of the Week awards with two. She is the only player to have multiple Player of the Weeks this season and the only active player in the league to have more than one career Player of the Week honor.
Cartwright 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 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 19 games.

Excelling at the Free Throw Line

Tulsa has done better than nearly everybody in the American at drawing fouls to get to the charity stripe.
TU is second in the league with 15.74 made free throws and 21.42 free throw attempts per game, which nationally rank 19th and 30th, respectively.
Two TU players shoot .800 or better at the line, including Layla-J Cameron (.917 (22-24)) and Mady Cartwright (.879 (94-107)).
Cartwright's free throw percentage of .879 is first in the American (min. 2.5 FT/game) and 30th 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 both Kent State and Tulane.

20-Point Scorers

Tulsa players have combined for 13 20+ point scoring efforts this year.
Mady Cartwright and Hannah Riddick lead the way with five games each scoring over 20 points, while Jade Clack, Abby Jegede and Dora Toman each have one.
TU is 8-3 when a player scores over 20 points.
There's been two games this season where two different Tulsa players reached 20 points in a single game. It was Hannah Riddick and Mady Cartwright in back-to-back wins against Tulane and Temple.
So far, Riddick has nine career 20+ point games, while Jegede has eight, Cartwright has seven and Clack and Toman each have one.

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 14.3 points and 6.8 rebounds in 17 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, 11 double-figure scoring games, including five 20+ point contests, and six double-digit rebound 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 before coming to TU 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.
Since returning, she's averaged 2.9 points in 8.1 minutes in eight games, leading TU with eight points and two steals at ECU.
Duncan is one of 49 Division I players to be playing in their 6th year of college hoops.

Tulsa Boasting Strong Freshman Class

Tulsa has put together 13 wins in 19 games thanks in part to significant contributions by three true freshmen.
Dora Toman (Budapest, Hungary) has started every game for TU, while Alisha Peavy (San Antonio, Texas) has starts in 10 of 19 games.
Peavy is producing 3.2 points and 3.8 boards per game, while Toman (8.9 ppg/5.0 rpg/2.9 apg) has led Tulsa in assists 10 times, steals eight times, boards seven times and scoring and blocks three times.
Toman is second in program history with five Freshman of the Week awards, which leads the American by a long shot so far this season.
Haven Fisher, from Prior Lake, Minn., has scored in double-figures three times so far and currently has 4.4 points in 13.5 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 89-55 entering game No. 20 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 three 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.

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.

2025-26 TICKETS
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