Golden Hurricane Host ECU for Senior Day and Regular Season Finale

Saturday, March 7

Tulsa, Okla.

2:00 p.m.

Tulsa

East Carolina

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Golden Hurricane Host ECU for Senior Day and Regular Season Finale

3/6/2026 10:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball

Game 30:
Tulsa (19-10, 11-6) vs. East Carolina (21-9, 13-4)
2:00 p.m. CT - Saturday, March 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: East Carolina
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THE COACHES:
Tulsa: Angie Nelp (Colorado State '02), 5^th year
Career Record: 95-59
School Record: Same

East Carolina: Kim McNeill (Richmond '00), 7^th year
Career Record: 108-139 (10^th year overall)
School Record: 108-101

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, 6-2, Jr-1L, Buda, Texas, 10.1 ppg, 4.7 rpg, 1.7 apg
17        F          Hannah Riddick, 6-1, RSr-TR, Calgary, Alberta, 15.0 ppg, 6.9 rpg, 1.7 apg
22        G         Mady Cartwright, 5-10, Jr-2L, Greenwood, Ark., 15.4 ppg, 3.7 rpg, 2.6 apg
33        G         Dora Toman, 6-0, Fr-HS, Budapest, Hungary, 8.9 ppg, 5.2 rpg, 2.7 apg

East Carolina's Probable Starters
2          G         Savannah Brooks, 5-9, Sr, Taneytown, Md., 9.1 ppg, 4.1 rpg, 2.2 apg
4          G         Kennedy Fauntleroy, 5-7, Sr, Upper Marlboro, Md., 13.7 ppg, 3.4 rpg, 4.8 apg
5          G         Jayla Hearp, 5-9, RJr, Hampton, Va., 9.5 ppg, 3.2 rpg, 1.3 apg
22        F          Anzhané Hutton, 6-0, Gr, Dallas, Texas, 11.4 ppg, 7.0 rpg, 1.5 apg
31        F          Keanna Rembert, 6-2, Sr, Raleigh, N.C., 10.1 ppg, 4.3 rpg, 1.6 apg

Senior Day in the 918

Tulsa will be celebrating their seniors on Saturday during the regular season finale against East Carolina.
20 minutes before tip-off, TU will honor redshirt senior forward Hannah Riddick, redshirt senior guard Shamaryah Duncan and student manager Yazmin Parks.
Tulsa Athletics will also be giving away free Tulsa jersey T-shirts, also known as "sherseys," to the first 200 fans to arrive at Reynolds.

The Series with East Carolina

This will be the 33rd all-time matchup between Tulsa and East Carolina, dating back to 2006.
TU holds a slight edge at 17-16 in the all-time series with the Pirates.
ECU has won four of the last five matchups, but Tulsa hasn't lost at home to the Pirates since 2019.
Tulsa is 8-4 at home against ECU, winning the last four consecutive home games against the Pirates.
Saturday will be the second of two games this season in a home-and-away series.
The Pirates won the earlier meeting this season, 79-48, in Greenville.
The last five matchups with East Carolina:

            01/13/2026......Greenville, N.C.......L, 48-79
            02/08/2025......Greenville, N.C.......L, 64-73
            12/29/2024.....Tulsa, Okla..............W, 93-84
            03/11/2024.....Fort Worth, Texas.....L, 71-75 (American quarterfinal)
            02/01/2024.....Greenville, N.C........L, 48-56

Scouting the East Carolina Pirates

East Carolina enters Saturday's contest with an 13-4 conference record for second place, paired with a 21-9 overall mark.
The Roadrunners are fourth in the league in NET rankings at No. 118.
ECU's best NET win came in a 64-62 home victory over No. 68 South Florida on February 4.
Four Pirates average double-figures in points per game, including Kennedy Fauntleroy (13.7), Anzhane' Hutton (11.4), Taylor Barner (10.7) and Keanna Rembert (10.1)
Fauntleroy also leads the Pirates with 144 assists, 82 steals and 22 blocks, while Hutton leads in rebounding with seven per game totaling 203 on the year.
As a unit, ECU is first in the American in scoring offense (71.9), free throws made (15.6), free throw attempts (21.23), turnover margin (+6.17) and turnovers forced ( 21.3) per game.
On the opposite end, the Pirates are second-to-last in the league in field goal percentage defense (41.10 and last in defensive rebounds (23.1) per outing.

Home Court Advantage

The Golden Hurricane have been deadly in the Donald W. Reynolds Center under fifth-year head coach Angie Nelp.
TU is 23-6 at home since the start of last season, 38-8 since 2023-24, 49-12 since 2022-23 and 57-17 since Nelp joined the program.
It's currently the first time in program history that TU has surpassed 10+ home wins in four consecutive seasons.
2025-26: Tulsa won their first eight consecutive home games and currently sits at 12-2 with one home game left to play.
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.

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

The 11-6 Golden Hurricane have locked up the No. 4 seed in the American Women's Basketball Championship, which starts next week and runs from March 10-14 at Legacy Arena in Birmingham, Ala.
Tulsa will face either the fifth, eighth or ninth seed in the quarterfinal round on Thursday, March 12, at 12 p.m. Central to begin their tournament run.
TU secured the four-seed via head-to-head tiebreak over North Texas and a crucial road victory last time out over UTSA.

Tulsa's the Most Awarded Team in the American Conference

As of March 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 17 individual awards. Rice is the next-closest with 15 and ECU has 11.
Mady Cartwright is tied with UNT's Megan Nestor and East Carolina's Kennedy Fautleroy for first in the league with two Player of the Weeks, while Dora Toman reigns 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 has picked up weekly awards in 11 of the 17 weeks of the season so far.
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.
Nelp is currently 95-59 entering game No. 30 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.

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 two 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 (15.41) through 29 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 second in the American in free throw percentage (.846), fifth in the league with six 20-point games and is one of eight players with a 30+ point game.
Tulsa is 12-4 when Cartwright scores 15+ points and 5-1 when scoring over 20.
Cartwright is tied for the league lead in Player of the Week awards with two. She is one of two players to have multiple Player of the Weeks this season and one of two 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, leads the league with seven American Freshman of the Week awards.
The rising star averages 8.9 points, 5.2 rebounds, 2.7 assists, 1.8 steals and 0.5 blocks per game.
So far, she has led the Golden Hurricane in assists 11 times, steals eight times, boards seven 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 7-0 when she has four or more assists in a game. She currently has different five games with five assists.

Riddick's Rocking the Court in American Action

Redshirt senior forward Hannah Riddick has been one of the stars of the show through 17 games of American action, putting up 16.29 points and 6.82 boards per conference game.
Since putting up 27 points at Wichita State, Riddick is second in the league in conference play scoring with 16.29 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 26 starts in 27 games played, Riddick has led the Golden Hurricane in boards 14 times, points and blocks 10 times, assists seven times and steals four times.
Overall, she averages 15.0 points, 6.9 rebounds and 1.7 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.

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 14.21 made free throws and third with 19.86 free throw attempts per game, which nationally rank 49th and 54th, respectively.
Two TU players shoot .800 or better at the line, including Layla-J Cameron (.806 (29-36)) and Mady Cartwright (.846 (132-156)).
Cartwright's free throw percentage of .846 is second in the American (min. 2.5 FT/game) and 57th in the country. She has 10 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 16 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 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.

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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