Golden Hurricane Set to Host UTSA on Saturday

Saturday, February 7

Tulsa, Okla.

2:00 p.m.

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Golden Hurricane Set to Host UTSA on Saturday

2/6/2026 11:39:00 AM | Women's Basketball

Game 23:
Tulsa (16-6, 8-2) vs. UTSA (10-11, 5-5)
2:00 p.m. CT - Saturday, February 7, 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: UTSA
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THE COACHES:
Tulsa: Angie Nelp (Colorado State '02), 5^th year
Career Record: 92-55
School Record: Same

UTSA: Karen Aston (Little Rock '87), 5^th year
Career Record: 359-219 (18^th year overall)
School Record: 74-73

Tulsa's Probable Starters
4          G         Abby Jegede, 5-10, RJr-TR, Toronto, Ontario, 7.6 ppg, 3.9 rpg
5          G         Alisha Peavy, 6-2, Fr-HS, San Antonio, Texas, 3.0 ppg, 3.6 rpg, 1.5 apg
15        G         Jade Clack, 6-2, Jr-1L, Buda, Texas, 10.3 ppg, 4.8 rpg, 1.6 apg
17        F          Hannah Riddick, 6-1, RSr-TR, Calgary, Alberta, 15.4 ppg, 6.8 rpg, 1.8 apg
22        G         Mady Cartwright, 5-10, Jr-2L, Greenwood, Ark., 15.8 ppg, 3.6 rpg, 2.4 apg

UTSA's Probable Starters
2          G         Ereauna Hardaway, 5-8, Sr, Jonesboro, Ark., 11.1 ppg, 3.6 rpg, 4.9 apg
4          G         Damara Allen, 5-10, So, Aurora, Colo., 9.3 ppg, 4.3 rpg, 2.2 apg
5          G         Mia Hammonds, 6-3, So, Cibolo, Texas, 7.0 ppg, 5.3 rpg, 1.3 apg
21        F          Cheyenne Rowe, 6-2, Sr, Ajax, Ontario, 13.3 ppg, 8.8 rpg
25        F          Idara Udo, 6-1, Jr, Plano, Texas, 7.9 ppg, 6.2 rpg

Celebrating National Girls and Women in Sports Day

Tulsa will be celebrating National Girls and Women in Sports Day on Saturday as TU takes on UTSA.
Join the Golden Hurricane in the Donald W. Reynolds Center for a pre-game clinic open to all kids. Free T-shirts and game tickets will be given to all who participate.

The Series with UTSA

This will be the 14th all-time matchup between Tulsa and UTSA.
The Golden Hurricane lead the series 7-6, but UTSA has won the last two games.
Saturday will be the first of two games this season in a home-and-home series.
UTSA won both meetings last year.
The last five matchups with UTSA:

            01/22/2025.....San Antonio, Texas........L, 53-64
            01/04/2025.....Tulsa, Okla.....................L, 53-60
            02/14/2024.....Tulsa, Okla.....................W, 74-70
            03/11/2014.....El Paso, Texas................L, 89-90 (C-USA Tournament 1st Round)
            01/08/2014.....San Antonio, Texas........W, 73-62

Scouting the UTSA Roadrunners

UTSA currently holds a 5-5 record in American Conference action for sixth place, paired with a 10-11 overall record.
The Roadrunners are seventh in the league in NET ranking at No. 140, just seven spots behind Tulsa.
UTSA's best NET win came in a 66-64 home victory against No. 115 North Texas on Jan. 28.
Cheyenne Rowe and former North Texas guard Ereauna Hardaway have taken the lead for UTSA, averaging 13.3 points and 11.1 points, respectively.
Rowe ranks fourth in the league in rebounding (8.8), while Hardaway is third in assists (4.9) per game.
UTSA boasts a strong defense, ranking second in the American in scoring defense (59.7) and field goal percentage defense (.381).
On the opposite end, the Roadrunners are 12th in scoring offense (60.8) and bench points (14.8) and 10th in field goal percentage (.391), free throw attempts (16.19) and turnovers (18.7) per game.
Last year, UTSA took home the regular season title at 17-1 and finished 26-5 with a first-round exit in the WBIT.

Tulsa's the Most Awarded Team in the American Conference

As of February 2 of the 2025-26 season, Golden Hurricane players have garnered the most American Conference awards out of all 13 teams in the league.
Tulsa currently has 15 individual awards. Rice is the next-closest with 11 and ECU has nine.
Mady Cartwright leads the league with two Player of the Weeks, while Dora Toman reigns supreme over all conference freshmen with six Freshman of the Week awards.
Hannah Riddick (4), Mady Cartwright (2) and Abby Jegede (1) have also combined for seven Weekly Honorable Mentions.
TU has picked up weekly awards in nine of the 13 weeks of the season so far.

Home Court Advantage

The Golden Hurricane have been deadly in the Donald W. Reynolds Center under fifth-year head coach Angie Nelp.
TU is 21-5 at home since the start of last season, 36-7 since 2023-24, 47-11 since 2022-23 and 55-16 since Nelp joined the program.
2025-26: Tulsa won their first eight consecutive home games and currently sits at 10-1 entering this Saturday's contest.
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 Golden 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 in program history that TU has surpassed 10+ home wins in four consecutive seasons.

Excelling at the Free Throw Line

Tulsa has done better than everybody in the American at drawing fouls to get to the charity stripe.
TU is first in the league with 16.23 made free throws and 23 free throw attempts per game, which nationally rank 14th and 18th, respectively.
Two TU players shoot .800 or better at the line, including Layla-J Cameron (.900 (27-30)) and Mady Cartwright (.866 (116-134)).
Cameron is Tulsa's all-time career free throw shooter at .900 (min. 10 attempts).
Cartwright's free throw percentage of .866 is first in the American (min. 2.5 FT/game) and 36th in the country. She has five perfect free throw shooting games.
Hannah Riddick and Cartwright have combined for five 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 against Kent State, Tulane and Wichita State.
As a team, Tulsa has recorded 16 games with 15 or more made free throws and eight contests this season scoring 18 or more points from the line.

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 10 games of American action, putting up 18 points and 6.6 boards per conference game.
After putting up 27 points last time out at Wichita State, she is the now the league leader in conference play scoring with 18 points per game.
She also earned three double-doubles in the first three games of league action.
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, where she led Tulsa's 17-point comeback against the Green Wave with 12 points and 8 rebounds in the fourth quarter alone.
She's hit 22 points or more in five conference games, most recently against Wichita State last time out with 27 points.
Through 19 starts in 20 games played, Riddick has led the Golden Hurricane in boards and blocks nine times, points seven time, assists six times and steals twice.
Overall, she averages 15.4 points, 6.8 rebounds and 1.8 assists per game.
Riddick's scoring and rebounding averages rank third and 11th, respectively, in the American.
She's fourth in the league with five double-doubles.
TU is 4-1 when Riddick earns a double-double in a game.
Finally, she is second in the conference in 20-point games with seven so far.

Mady Cartwright's a Scoring Leader in the American

Junior guard Mady Cartwright is second in the American Conference in points per game (15.77) through 22 games of the 2025-26 season.
She's scored in double-figures in all but six games, has six 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 (.866), third in the league with five 20-point games and is one of seven players with a 30+ point game.
Tulsa is 10-3 when Cartwright scores 15+ points and 5-1 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.

Toman is a Six-Time American Freshman of the Week

Tulsa's Dora Toman, a true freshman out of Budapest, Hungary, leads the league with six American Freshman of the Week awards.
Despite missing the last two games for a medical decision, the rising star averages 9.0 points, 5.3 rebounds, 2.9 assists, 2.0 steals and 0.5 blocks per game.
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 having 10.0 points, 4.5 assists, 3.5 rebounds and 2.0 steals in wins over Tulane and Temple.
Toman's 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.
Finally, her sixth American Freshman of the Week (Feb. 2) was awarded after putting up 11 points, five rebounds, three assists and a steal in the home win over Florida Atlantic.
She enters the upcoming came with seven double-figure scoring games so far.
Tulsa is 7-0 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.

20-Point Scorers

Tulsa players have combined for 16 20-point scoring efforts this year.
Hannah Riddick leads the way with seven games scoring over 20 points, with Mady Cartwright right behind at six games. Jade Clack, Abby Jegede and Dora Toman each have one contest with at least 20 points.
TU is 10-3 when a player scores over 20 points.
There's been three games this season where two different Tulsa players reached 20 points in a single game. All three were Hannah Riddick and Mady Cartwright in the back-to-back wins against Tulane and Temple and the road win at Wichita State.
So far, Riddick has 11 career 20+ point games, while Cartwright and Jegede have eight 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 15.4 points and 6.8 rebounds in 20 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, 14 double-figure scoring games, including seven 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 16 wins in 22 games thanks in part to significant contributions by three true freshmen.
Dora Toman (Budapest, Hungary) has started nearly every game for TU, while Alisha Peavy (San Antonio, Texas) has starts in 12 of 22 games.
Peavy is producing 3.0 points and 3.6 boards per game, while Toman (9.0 ppg/5.3 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 six Freshman of the Week awards, which leads the American by a long shot this season.
Haven Fisher, from Prior Lake, Minn., has scored in double-figures three times so far and currently has 4.2 points in 13.4 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 is Now the Second-Winningest Coach in Team History

Head Coach Angie Nelp passed Kathy McConnell-Miller (1999-05) for second on the all-time TU coach win list after beating Wichita State on the road this season for her 92nd career win.
Nelp is currently 92-55 entering game No. 23 of her fifth season leading the Golden Hurricane
She now stands only behind Matilda Mossman (2011-2021), who had 119 wins at TU.
No previous Tulsa coach had ever reached 80 wins in just their fifth season.
Only two other TU head coaches won more than 90 games in their careers.
Nelp is the only coach in program history to earn 10+ home wins in four 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.

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
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