TU Welcomes Temple for Faith and Family Night on Friday

Friday, January 9

Tulsa, Okla.

6:30 p.m.

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TU Welcomes Temple for Faith and Family Night on Friday

1/8/2026 1:11:00 PM | Women's Basketball

Game 15:
Tulsa (10-4, 2-0 American) vs. Temple (7-7, 1-1 American)
6:30 p.m. CT - Friday, January 9, 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: Temple
AMERICAN RELEASE: Click here

THE COACHES:
Tulsa: Angie Nelp (Colorado State '02), 5^th year
Career Record: 86-53
School Record: Same

Temple: Diane Richardson (Frostburg State '79), 4^th year
Career Record: 138-114
School Record: 58-48

Tulsa's Probable Starters
4          G         Abby Jegede, 5-10, RJr-TR, Toronto, Ontario, 8.3 ppg, 2.7 rpg
15        G         Jade Clack, 6-2, Jr-1L, Buda, Texas, 9.1 ppg, 3.9 rpg, 1.5 apg
17        F          Hannah Riddick, 6-1, RSr-TR, Calgary, Alberta, 13.8 ppg, 7.7 rpg, 2.1 apg
22        G         Mady Cartwright, 5-10, Jr-2L, Greenwood, Ark., 16.4 ppg, 3.5 rpg, 2.3 apg
33        G         Dora Toman, 6-0, Fr-HS, Budapest, Hungary, 8.7 ppg, 5.6 rpg, 3.3 apg

Temple's Probable Starters
7          G         Kaylah Turner, 5-6, Jr, Jacksonville, Fla., 16.6 ppg, 3.6 rpg, 2.5 apg
8          F          Jaleesa Molina, 6-3, Jr, The Hague, Netherlands, 9.9 ppg, 7.9 rpg, 1.9 apg
11        G         Tristen Taylor, 5-5, Jr, Dallas, Texas, 11.0 ppg, 2.6 rpg, 4.5 apg
30        G         Drew Alexander, 5-11, So, Durham, N.C., 6.2 ppg, 2.8 rpg
91        F          Saniyah Craig, 6-1, Jr, Phoenix, Ariz., 8.4 ppg, 8.8 rpg, 1.3 apg

Faith and Family Night in the Reynolds Center

Friday is Faith and Family night in the Donald W. Reynolds Center.
Fans are welcome to join Ben and Kjirsten Bender for a postgame worship service in the arena, featuring worship songs played by the Benders and player testimonies from student-athletes.

The Series with Temple

This will be the 18th all-time meeting between Tulsa and Temple.
The Owls lead the series 12-5 entering Friday's matchup.
Each of the last four games have had a different winner.
Tulsa is 1-6 when hosting Temple. The Golden Hurricane's lone home win came in the first game of the series on February 10, 2015, in a 75-67 winner for Tulsa.
Tulsa will be looking for revenge for last year's game in Philadelphia, where Temple's Jaleesa Molina hit a game-winner in the final seconds.
The last five matchups with Temple:

            01/11/2025.....Philadelphia, Pa......L, 71-73
            02/28/2024.....Philadelphia, Pa.....W, 76-67
            01/06/2024.....Tulsa, Okla..............L, 48-58
            01/17/2023.....Philadelphia, Pa.....W, 69-57
            02/12/2022.....Tulsa, Okla..............L, 58-73

Scouting the Temple Owls

Temple is 8th in the American with a 1-1 league record and 7-7 overall mark.
The Owls suffered a three-point defeat at home to UTSA (50-47) before taking down Wichita State 70-50 on the road last time out.
Currently at NET 109, Temple's best win so far came against NET 68 George Mason in a 94-85 overtime thriller in the Owl's season-opener.
Junior guard Kaylah Turner currently leads the American in points per game (16.64), total points (233) and 3-point field goal percentage (.424).
Turner was last year's American 6th Player of the Year and an All-Newcomer selection. She was listed a preseason All-Conference First Team player ahead of this season.
Last year, Temple went 20-11 overall and 13-5 in league action to finish fourth overall.

Home Court Advantage

The Golden Hurricane have been deadly in the Donald W. Reynolds Center under fifth-year head coach Angie Nelp.
TU is 18-4 at home since the start of last season, 33-6 since 2023-24, 44-10 since 2022-23 and 52-15 since Nelp joined the program.
2025-26: Tulsa is undefeated so far at home with a 7-0 record.
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 Averaging a Double-Double in Conference Play

Redshirt senior forward Hannah Riddick has been the star of the show through the first two games of American action, putting up 19.0 points and 11.0 boards.
She finished with 16 points and 11 boards against Wichita State before earning 22 points and 11 rebounds at Tulane.
Riddick was responsible for the go-ahead second-chance 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 11 starts in 12 games played, Riddick has led the Golden Hurricane in boards six 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.
Her scoring and rebounding averages rank sixth and ninth, respectively, in the American.
Riddick is also second in total free throw attempts (72) behind Mady Cartwright, third in total free throws made (50), eighth in defensive rebounding (5.08), ninth in free throw percentage (.694) and 11th in blocking (0.75) and offensive rebounding (2.58).
She's also fourth in the league with four double-doubles.
TU is 3-1 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 (16.43) through nine and a half weeks of the 2025-26 season.
She's scored in double-figures in all but three games, has four 20+ point performances and peaked with a career-high of 28 points against Kent State in the Bahamas tournament.
She's fourth in the league with four 20-point games.
Tulsa is 7-2 when Cartwright scores 15+ points and 3-1 when scoring over 20.
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 TU in scoring in six of the team's 14 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 40.9% from the field, 35.2% from deep and 87.3% from the free throw line (69/79).

Toman is a Three-Time American Freshman of the Week

Tulsa's Dora Toman, a true freshman out of Budapest, Hungary, has a league-leading three American Freshman of the Week awards.
The rising star averages 8.7 points, 5.6 rebounds, 3.3 assists, 2.1 steals and 0.6 blocks per game.
So far, she has led the Golden Hurricane in assists eight times, boards six times, steals five 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.
She enters the upcoming came with four double-figure scoring games.
Tulsa is 4-0 when Toman scores over 10 points.
TU is also 6-0 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 14 games, the Golden Hurricane are fourth in the American with 72.29 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 rebounding defense (33.21) and are second in blocking (3.93) and third in rebounding margin (+5.36) per game.
Hannah Riddick and Dora Toman have powered the defense with a combined 13.34 boards per game
Toman is fifth in the American with 2.07 steals, while Riddick is 11th with 0.75 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 16.64 free throws made and 22.71 free throw attempts per game, which also nationally ranks 14th and 19th, respectively.
Two TU players shoot .800 or better at the line, including Layla-J Cameron (.955 (21/22)) and Mady Cartwright (.873 (69-79)).
Cartwright's free throw percentage of .873 is third in the American and 39th in the country.
Hannah Riddick and Cartwright have combined for three double-figure free throw performances at the line this season, with Riddick making 13 against Oral Roberts and Cartwright draining 11 versus Kent State and Tulane.

20-Point Scorers

Tulsa players have combined for nine 20+ point scoring efforts this year.
Mady Cartwright leads the way with four games scoring over 20 points, while Hannah Riddick has three, and Abby Jegede and Dora Toman each have one.
TU is 6-2 when a player scores over 20 points.
There's been one game where two Tulsa players reached 20 points in a single game this season. It was Hannah Riddick (22) and Mady Cartwright (20) during the Golden Hurricane's road win at Tulane.
So far, Jegede has eight career 20+ point games, Riddick has seven and Cartwright has six.

Riddick and Duncan Return to the Court

Redshirt senior forward Hannah Riddick has succeeded on the court since returning to action, averaging 13.8 points and 7.7 rebounds in 12 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 four double-doubles, seven double-figure scoring games, including three 20+ point contests, and five 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 14 Games

Tulsa has put together 10 wins in 14 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 14 games.
Peavy is producing 4.0 points and 4.6 boards per game, while Toman (8.7 ppg/5.6 rpg/3.3 apg) has led Tulsa in assists eight 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 5.6 points in 16.3 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 86-53 entering game No. 15 of her fifth season leading the Golden Hurricane
She currently stands in third place on the all-time TU coaching wins list.
Nelp needs six more wins to pass Kathy McConnell-Miller (1999-05) 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.
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.

Last Time Out: Golden Hurricane Topples Tulane with 17-Point Comeback

Tulsa edged Tulane 76-73 by overcoming a 17-point second-quarter deficit with a massive 29-point fourth quarter.
The comeback goes down as the second-largest in program history, tying last year's season-opening comeback win over Arkansas-Pine Bluff.
Redshirt senior forward Hannah Riddick had 12 points and eight rebounds in the fourth quarter alone to push Tulsa to a tough road victory.
Riddick would go on to finish with her fourth double-double of the season with 22 points and 11 rebounds. She also had the go-ahead second-chance layup with a few seconds to go.
Junior guard Mady Cartwright also finished with 20 points with freshman guard Dora Toman finished behind her in scoring with 13 points.

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
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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