Tulsa Women Hit the Road for Tulane

Tuesday, January 6

New Orleans, La.

6:30 p.m.

Tulsa

Tulane

Photo by: Joshua Rogers

Tulsa Women Hit the Road for Tulane

1/5/2026 10:14:00 AM | Women's Basketball

Game 14:
Tulsa (9-4, 1-0 American) vs. Tulane (6-8, 1-1 American)
6:30 p.m. CT - Tuesday, January 6, 2026
Avron B. Fogelman Arena in the Devlin Fieldhouse (4,100) • New Orleans, La.

RADIO: 1300 AM/93.5 FM The Patriot
LIVE STATS: Tulsa StatBroadcast
TV: ESPN+
GAME NOTES: Tulsa
GAME NOTES: Tulane
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THE COACHES:
Tulsa: Angie Nelp (Colorado State '02), 5^th year
Career Record: 85-53
School Record: Same

Tulane: Ashley Langford (Tulane '09), 2^nd year
Career Record: 92-45
School Record: 23-21

Tulsa's Probable Starters
4          G         Abby Jegede, 5-10, RJr-TR, Toronto, Ontario, 8.5 ppg, 2.7 rpg
15        G         Jade Clack, 6-2, Jr-1L, Buda, Texas, 9.2 ppg, 4.1 rpg, 1.5 apg
17        F          Hannah Riddick, 6-1, RSr-TR, Calgary, Alberta, 13.1 ppg, 7.4 rpg, 2.0 apg
22        G         Mady Cartwright, 5-10, Jr-2L, Greenwood, Ark., 16.2 ppg, 3.5 rpg, 2.4 apg
33        G         Dora Toman, 6-0, Fr-HS, Budapest, Hungary, 8.4 ppg, 5.6 rpg, 3.2 apg

Tulane's Probable Starters
3          G         CC Mays, 5-8, Gr, Tampa, Fla., 8.5 ppg, 3.8 rpg, 2.2 apg
9          G         Kendall Sneed, 5-8, So, China, Texas, 8.4 ppg, 3.9 rpg, 4.1 apg
21        G         Kanija Daniel, 5-10, Jr, Carrolton, Ga., 11.1 ppg, 2.9 rpg, 2.2 apg
22        F          Dyllan Hanna, 6-2, Sr, St. Augustine, Fla., 7.9 ppg, 6.8 rpg
23        F          Amira Mabry, 6-0, Sr, Converse, Texas, 10.9 ppg, 6.5 rpg, 1.2 apg

The Series with Tulane

This will be the 41st all-time meeting between Tulsa and Tulane.
It's the third-longest series for the Golden Hurricane after 48 games against Oral Roberts and 41 games against Rice.
The Green Wave leads the series 28-12, but Tulsa has won three in a row against Tulane heading into Tuesday.
Tuesday will be the first of two games this season in a home-and-home series.
The last time these two teams played in New Orleans was the regular-season finale of 2023-24, when Tulsa clinched a share of the American regular season championship with a 61-56 win over the Green Wave.
The last five matchups with Tulane:

            02/19/2025.....Tulsa, Okla..............W, 73-54
            03/05/2024.....New Orleans, La.....W, 61-56
            01/02/2024.....Tulsa, Okla..............W, 72-54
            01/21/2023.....New Orleans, La......L, 72-77
            02/16/2022.....Tulsa, Okla...............L, 60-69

Scouting the Tulane Green Wave

Tulane is 8th in the American with a 1-1 league record and 6-8 overall mark.
They fell in a 65-63 heartbreaker at UTSA in their conference opener before taking down Wichita State 70-60 on the road.
The Green Wave's NET ranking is 9th in the American at 182.
Tulane shares the ball well, leading the conference with 15.6 assists per game.
Second Team Preseason All-Conference guard Kendall Sneed is sixth in the league with 4.1 assists and seventh with a 1.43 assist/turnover ratio.
Last year, Tulane finished 17-13 overall and 9-8 league mark.

Mady Cartwright a Scoring Leader in the American

Junior guard Mady Cartwright is second in the American Conference in points per game (16.2) through nine weeks of the 2025-26 season.
She's scored in double-figures in all but three games, has three 20+ point performances and peaked with a career-high 28 points against Kent State in the Bahamas tournament.
She took home her first American Player of the Week award after leading Tulsa to a win over Florida with 26 points.
Cartwright has led Tulsa in scoring in six of Tulsa's 13 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 42.4% from the field, 37.5% from deep and 86.6% from the free throw line (54/63).

Toman is a Two-Time American Freshman of the Week

Tulsa's Dora Toman, a true freshman out of Budapest, Hungary, has two American Conference Freshman of the Week awards, tyingTulane's Mecailin Marshall for the most in the league.
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 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.
So far, she has led the Golden Hurricane in assists seven times, boards six times, steals five times, blocks three times and points twice.

A Golden Offense Backed by a Multi-Talented Defense

After 13 games, the Golden Hurricane are four in the American with 72.00 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 (4.08) while ranking first in rebounding defense (32.54) and second in rebounding margin (+6.15) per game.
Hannah Riddick and Dora Toman have powered the defense with a combined 13.0 boards per game, while Toman is seventh in the American with 2.08 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 16.62 free throws made and 22.69 free throw attempts per game, which also nationally ranks 17th and 20th, respectively.
Two TU players shoot .800 or better at the line, including Layla-J Cameron (.955 (21/22)) and Mady Cartwright (.866 (58-67)).
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 13.1 points and 7.4 rebounds in 11 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 this past offseason, she returned to the court 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 three double-doubles, six double-figure scoring games, including two 20+ point contests, and four double-digit rebounding games.
Riddick's led TU in boards five times, blocks four times, scoring and assists twice and steals once.
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.
Duncan is one of 49 DI players to be playing in their 6th year of college hoops.

20-Point Scorers

Tulsa players have combined for seven 20+ point scoring efforts this year.
Mady Cartwright leads the way with three games scoring over 20 points, while Hannah Riddick has two, and Abby Jegede and Dora Toman each have one.
TU is 5-2 when a player scores over 20 points.
So far, Jegede has eight career 20+ point games, Riddick has six and Cartwright has five.

Tulsa Freshmen Shine Through First 13 Games

Tulsa has put together nine wins in 13 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 13 games.
Peavy is producing 3.9 points and 4.8 boards per game, while Toman (8.4 ppg/5.6 rpg/3.2 apg) has led Tulsa in assists seven times, boards six times, steals five 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 6.1 points in 16.7 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 85-53 entering game No. 14 of her fifth season leading the Golden Hurricane
She 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.
She needs seven 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 85 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 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.

Last Time Out: Golden Hurricane Win American Opener Against Wichita State

Tulsa toppled Wichita State 64-58 in the Donald W. Reynolds Center for the opening game of American Conference action.
The Golden Hurricane dominated the boards 44-24 en route to their sixth consecutive conference-opening win and seventh straight home win this season.
Tulsa led wire-to-wire and is now 8-0 this season when leading at halftime.
TU is now 7-0 at the Reynolds Center for their best home start since 2022-23, when they started 9-0.
Redshirt junior guard Abby Jegede led the team with 18 points off 6/7 shooting and 4-of-5 made 3-pointers to go with two points from the free throw line.
Redshirt senior forward Hannah Riddick took care of the boards with 11 rebounds and finished with a double-double with 16 points under her belt, while Jade Clack secured 12 points in her third start for TU.
True freshman guard Dora Toman coordinated the offense with a team-high five assists, leading the Golden Hurricane in that category for the seventh time this season.

2025-26 TICKETS
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