Golden Hurricane Women Face North Texas in American Quarterfinal

Thursday, March 12

Birmingham, Ala. • Legacy Arena At The BJCC

12:00 p.m.

Tulsa

North Texas

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Golden Hurricane Women Face North Texas in American Quarterfinal

3/11/2026 2:54:00 PM | Women's Basketball

Games 31-33:
#4 Tulsa (19-11, 11-7) vs. #5 North Texas (18-13, 11-7)
American Conference Championship Quarterfinal
12:00 p.m. CT - Thursday, March 12, 2026
Legacy Arena at the BJCC (17,654) • Birmingham, Ala.

#4 Tulsa vs. #1 Rice
American Conference Championship Semifinal
6:00 p.m. CT - Friday, March 13, 2026
Legacy Arena at the BJCC (17,654) • Birmingham, Ala.

#4 Tulsa vs. TBD
American Conference Championship Final
8:30 p.m. CT - Saturday, March 14, 2026
Legacy Arena at the BJCC (17,654) • Birmingham, Ala.

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GAME NOTES: North Texas
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THE COACHES:
Tulsa: Angie Nelp (Colorado State '02), 5^th year
Career Record: 95-60
School Record: Same

North Texas: Jason Burton (Austin '07), 3^rd year
Career Record: 237-121 (12^th year overall)
School Record: 66-31

Tulsa's Probable Starters
5          G         Alisha Peavy, 6-2, Fr-HS, San Antonio, Texas, 2.7 ppg, 3.4 rpg, 1.3 apg
15        G         Jade Clack, 6-1, Jr-1L, Buda, Texas, 10.5 ppg, 4.7 rpg, 1.8 apg
17        F          Hannah Riddick, 6-1, RSr-TR, Calgary, Alberta, 14.9 ppg, 6.9 rpg, 1.8 apg
22        G         Mady Cartwright, 5-10, Jr-2L, Greenwood, Ark., 15.2 ppg, 3.6 rpg, 2.5 apg
33        G         Dora Toman, 6-0, Fr-HS, Budapest, Hungary, 8.8 ppg, 5.2 rpg, 2.8 apg

North Texas Probable Starters
1          G         Andi Schissler, 5-10, Jr, Kersey, Colo., 8.3 ppg, 2.0 rpg, 1.7 apg
3          G         Jazzy Owens-Barnettt, 5-7, Sr, Plano, Texas, 7.8 ppg, 2.0 rpg, 1.8 apg
10        F          Megan Nestor, 6-4, Sr, Canaries, St. Lucia, 12.9 ppg, 14.4 rpg, 1.5 apg
12        G         Aysia Proctor, 5-8, Jr, Schertz, Texas, 14.2ppg, 2.8 rpg, 1.0 apg
30        G         Chania Price, 5-11, So, Fort Worth, Texas, 6.1 ppg, 3.1 rpg, 1.0 apg

TU Locks up the No. 4 Seed and a Double-Bye in Upcoming American Tournament

The 11-7 Golden Hurricane have locked up the No. 4 seed in the American Women's Basketball Championship, which starts this week and runs from March 10-14 at Legacy Arena in Birmingham, Ala.
Tulsa will face either No. 5 North Texas or No. 9 Florida Atlantic on Thursday, March 12, at 12 p.m. on ESPN+.
TU secured the four-seed via head-to-head tiebreak over North Texas and a crucial road victory last week over UTSA.

Tulsa in the Conference Championship

Tulsa is 5-11 in the American Championship and 17-26 all-time across 29 league tournaments competed in (including this year).
5th year Head Coach Angie Nelp seeks her first conference tournament win since March 7, 2021, which was her first season at Tulsa.
Tulsa has won two conference tournaments, including the 2006 C-USA Tournament at Moody Coliseum in Dallas, Texas and the 2013 C-USA Championship at the BOK Center in Tulsa.
Tulsa has never made it past the quarterfinal round in the American Championship.
TU looks to become the first four-seed to win the tournament in American Conference history.

The Series with North Texas

This would potentially be the 14th all-time meeting between Tulsa and North Texas.
TU leads the series 10-3 with a .769 win percentage against the Mean Green.
The two teams played each other once earlier this season, with Tulsa coming back from down 11 points in the second quarter to win 57-53 in Denton.
The win at North Texas, who is also 11-7 on the year, gave Tulsa the head-to-head tiebreak for the No. 4 seed and the double-bye in the American Championship.
This will be the first-ever conference tournament matchup between the two teams.
The last five matchups with North Texas:

            01/23/2026....Denton, Texas.....W, 57-53
            02/15/2025.....Tulsa, Okla..........L, 58-61
            01/01/2025.....Denton, Texas.....L, 78-84
            02/04/2024.....Tulsa, Okla.........W, 79-74
            03/17/2022.....Denton, Texas....W, 75-62 (WNIT 1st Round)

Riddick, Cartwright and Toman Earn American Conference Honors

Tulsa's Hannah Riddick, Mady Cartwright and Dora Toman were named to end-of-the-year American Conference women's basketball awards.
Riddick took home First Team All-Conference honors, Cartwright was listed as Second Team All-Conference and Toman took home an All-Newcomer Team distinction.
Riddick is the first transfer student-athlete in program history to earn First Team All-Conference honors after just one season. She also joins Temira Poindexter and Delanie Crawford as third TU player to receive American Conference first-team accolades as she brings home the program's 13th overall first team all-conference award.

Tulsa's the Most Awarded Team in the American Conference

During the regular season, Golden Hurricane players have garnered the most American Conference awards out of all 13 teams in the league.
Tulsa came away with 17 individual weekly awards. Rice was the next-closest with 16 and ECU and South Florida each had 11.
Mady Cartwright was second in the league with two Player of the Weeks, while Dora Toman reigned supreme over all conference freshmen with seven Freshman of the Week honors.
Hannah Riddick (5), Mady Cartwright (2) and Abby Jegede (1) have also combined for eight Weekly Honorable Mentions.
TU picked up weekly awards in 11 of the 18 weeks of the regular season.

Nelp is 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.
She now sits only behind Matilda Mossman (2011-2021), who had 119 wins at TU.
Nelp is currently 95-60 through the first 30 games of her fifth season leading the Golden Hurricane.
No previous Tulsa coach had ever reached 80 wins in just their fifth season.
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.
Finally, Nelp is the only TU coach to have more than two consecutive winning seasons leading the Golden Hurricane.

Riddick's Rocking the Court in American Action

Redshirt senior forward Hannah Riddick has been one of the stars of the show through all 18 games of American action, putting up 16.11 points and 6.78 boards per conference game.
Since putting up 27 points at Wichita State, Riddick is second in the league in conference play scoring with 16.11 points per game.
She's also earned five double-doubles in conference play, including three 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 in New Orleans, where she led Tulsa's 17-point comeback against the Green Wave with 12 points and 8 rebounds in the fourth quarter alone.
She fueled another 17-point comeback for Tulsa in the 59-55 win over UAB, putting up 17 total points and 11 in the fourth quarter alone.
She's hit 22 points or more in five conference games, most recently against Wichita State with 27 points.
Through 27 starts in 28 games played, Riddick has led the Golden Hurricane in boards 15 times, points and blocks 10 times, assists seven times and steals four times.
Overall, she averages 14.9 points, 6.9 rebounds and 1.8 assists per game.
Riddick's scoring and rebounding averages rank fourth and 12th, respectively, in the American.
She's fifth in the league with seven total double-doubles.
Finally, she is fourth in the conference in 20-point games with seven so far.

Cartwright Now a 1,000-Point scorer

Junior guard Mady Cartwright became the 14th member of the 1,000-point club in program history after earning 17 points at Rice three games ago.
She accomplished the feat in 95 games spanning three seasons, all at Tulsa.
Cartwright is third in the American Conference in points per game (15.20) after starting in all 30 games.
She's scored in double-figures in all but seven games, has six 20+ point performances and one 30+ point performance, peaking with a career-high of 31 points against Temple.
She's second in the American in free throw percentage (.842), fifth in the league with six 20-point games and is one of nine players with a 30+ point game.
Tulsa is 12-4 when Cartwright scores 15+ points and 5-1 when scoring over 20.
Cartwright is second in the league with two Player of the Week awards. She is one of three players to have multiple Player of the Weeks this season and one of three active players 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 had 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 nation this season to land five 3's without a miss while scoring over 30 points.

Toman is a Seven-Time American Freshman of the Week

Tulsa's Dora Toman, a true freshman out of Budapest, Hungary, is second in league history with seven American Freshman of the Week awards.
The rising star averages 8.8 points, 5.2 rebounds, 2.8 assists, 1.8 steals and 0.5 blocks per game.
So far, she has led the Golden Hurricane in assists 12 times, steals eight times, boards eight times and scoring and blocks four 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.
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.
Finally, Toman grabbed her seventh American Freshman of the Week (March 2) after averaging 12 points and 4.5 rebounds in games against Rice and Tulane. In the win against Tulane, she finished with 15 points and seven rebounds.
Tulsa is 8-0 when Toman scores over 10 points this year
TU is also 7-1 when she has four or more assists in a game. She currently has six different games with five assists.

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 14.27 made free throws and third with 20.13 free throw attempts per game, which nationally rank 45th and 42nd, respectively.
Two TU players shoot .800 or better at the line, including Layla-J Cameron (.806 (29-36)) and Mady Cartwright (.842 (133-158)).
Cartwright's free throw percentage of .842 is second in the American (min. 2.5 FT/game) and 67th in the country. She has 11 perfect free throw shooting games on the year.
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 had 17 games with 15 or more made free throws this year.
There's also been eight contests this season where the Golden Hurricane scored 18 or more points from the line.

20-Point Scorers

Tulsa players have combined for 17 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 in third with two games and Abby Jegede and Dora Toman each have one contest with at least 20 points.
TU is 10-4 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 each have eight, Clack has two and Toman has 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 nine players in the American with at least one game scoring over 30 points.

Comeback Queens

In 13 of 19 wins, the Golden Hurricane trailed at one point or another.
Tulsa overcame double-figure deficits in four of those wins, including Oral Roberts, Tulane, North Texas and UAB.
TU was down 17 points in the third quarter in both the wins at Tulane and at home against UAB. The common denominator for both comebacks was Hannah Riddick, who put up 12 points in the fourth quarter at Tulane and 11 points in the fourth quarter against UAB.
In the 48th Mayor's Cup battle with Oral Roberts, Tulsa trailed by 10 points (56-46) with 5:09 remaining on the clock before fighting back to force overtime and win.
Lastly, the Golden Hurricane were down by 11 points (24-13) at 2:48 in the second quarter at North Texas before outscoring the Mean Green 39-29 in the second half.

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.

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