Women's Basketball Hops Over to Baton Rouge for Thursday Game at LSU

Thursday, November 15

Baton Rouge, La.

6:30 p.m.

Tulane University

LSU

Women's Basketball Hops Over to Baton Rouge for Thursday Game at LSU

Nov 14, 2018 | Women's Basketball

GAME 2: TULANE GREEN WAVE at LSU TIGERS
When:	Thursday, November 15 \| 6:30 p.m. CST
Where:	Baton Rouge, La. \| Pete Maravich Center
Watch:	SEC Network+
Radio:	WRBH 88.3 FM \| Listen Online
Live Scoring:	Statbroadcast
Notes:	Tulane \| LSU
Social:	@GreenWaveWBB

NEW ORLEANS – On the road for the first time this season, Tulane women's basketball will be taking on a familiar foe in LSU. Tipoff in Baton Rouge is set for 6:30 p.m. at the Maravich Center, and the game will be televised on SEC Network+.

STARTING FIVE

Tulane got off to a hot shooting start in its season-opening win over Texas Southern on Thursday, making 58.5 percent of its shots in a 62-56 victory. The Green Wave rank fifth in the country with that .585 shooting percentage.
Sophomores led the way for the Green Wave in the season's first game with Sierra Cheatham (17) and Krystal Freeman (16) each notching career highs in points. Freeman went 8 of 9 from the field in her first career start. Kaila Anderson also had a career-best nine assists.
The Green Wave now have 699 total wins as a program. A victory against LSU on Thursday would be the 700th win in team history.
Tulane ended the 2017-18 season with a 14-17 record overall, missing the national postseason for the first time in nine years. Tulane was the No. 9 seed in the American Athletic Conference Tournament.
Thursday will be the 40th all-time meeting between Tulane and LSU. The Tigers have won two straight games in the series and hold a 31-8 all-time lead.

SERIES HISTORY – LSU

The Green Wave and Tigers are common opponents, as they have faced off 39 times in history. LSU leads the all-time series 31-8.
LSU is currently on a two-game winning streak in the series. The bulk of Tulane's winning against LSU came in this decade, with Tulane winning five of six matchups between 2010 and 2015.
When the teams met last season, LSU pulled off a 73-50 victory. Harlyn Wyatt was Tulane's leading scorer with 12 points and also had a team-high five rebounds.

SCOUTING THE TIGERS

The Tigers, based out of Baton Rouge, are 2-0 so far this season with victories over Sam Houston State and Northern Colorado, both at home. Thursday's game will be the Tigers' third straight at the Maravich Center to begin the season.
Last year, LSU finished 19-10 and made the NCAA Tournament. There, the Tigers lost in the first round to Central Michigan, another opponent Tulane will play in 2018-19.
This year's Tigers are led by Ayana Mitchell on offense and in rebounding. Mitchell has averaged 17.0 points per game through two contests and also leads the Tigers with an incredible 16.5 rebounds per game.
Also scoring big for LSU are Jaelyn Richard-Harris and Khayla Pointer, both with 13.0 points per game. Pointer is the team's top passer with eight assists in two games.
Coach Nikki Fargas is in her eighth year at LSU and holds a 134-93 record with the Tigers.

CLOSING IN ON 700 WINS
Since the Tulane women's basketball team came into existence in 1975, the team has compiled an impressive 699 victories. The Green Wave need just one more victory to reach 700 as a program.

A QUARTER CENTURY WITH COACH
Now entering her 25th year with the Green Wave women's basketball program in 2018-19, it's hard to imagine anyone else at the helm besides Coach Lisa Stockton. Her numbers are staggering: three different conferences, four conference tournament championships, two conference regular-season championships, six All-Americans, 11 NCAA Tournament berths, seven WNIT spots and a boatload of wins. No one in the history of Tulane women's basketball is even close to Stockton's career numbers.

STOCKTON NEARS 500
Entering Thursday's game against LSU, Stockton has amassed 494 career victories at Tulane. She is just six wins shy of 500. Stockton has more than nine times as many wins as the second-winningest coach in program history.

FREEMAN ON FIRE
Krystal Freeman had a stellar start to her sophomore season, scoring a career-high 16 points and making eight of her nine field goal attempts against Texas Southern on Saturday. Freeman's .889 field goal percentage currently ranks sixth in the country. Freeman also tied for the team high in rebounding against the Tigers while making her first career start.

CHEATHAM FROM DOWNTOWN
Not to be outdone by her classmate, sophomore Sierra Cheatham had a special night in the season opener as well. Cheatham led Tulane in scoring with 17 points, making five 3-pointers and adding two game-icing free throws in the final minute. Cheatham set a new career high with those five made 3s and 17 points, and her 5.0 made 3-pointers per game currently ranks her eighth in the nation.

CAREER PASSING DAY
Career highs were set by every member of the sophomore class, as Kaila Anderson dished out nine assists against the Tigers on Thursday. The starting point guard's previous career high was eight. Anderson is now fourth in the nation with 9.0 assists per game.

HOT SHOOTING
One week after shooting 56.7 percent from the field in its exhibition win over Loyola-New Orleans, the Green Wave kept up that hot shooting in the season opener against Texas Southern. Tulane made 24 of its 41 field goal attempts against the Tigers, good for a .585 shooting percentage. The team is now fifth in the country with that .585 field goal percentage and an also-impressive sixth in the country with its .526 percentage from 3-point range (10 of 19).

MANU DID GOOD
Kayla Manuirirangi was Tulane's top returning scorer entering the year after averaging 7.7 points per game, and she nearly doubled that average in the season opener against Texas Southern. Manuirirangi made four of her six attempts from the 3-point line and added one more from 2-point range, scoring 14 points to finish third on the team.

FRESHMEN DEBUTS
Three of Tulane's freshmen got into the game against Texas Southern and all put up some numbers in their debuts. New Orleans native Dynah Jones got a start in the game, becoming the first Tulane freshman to start in her first possible game since Courtnie Latham in 2013. Jones finished the game with 2 points. Also getting into the game was Mia Heide, a forward from Austin, Texas, who tied for the team high with five rebounds. She also had two assists and a block. Finally, Florida native Erin Gutierrez played 10 minutes, scoring four points, picking up two assists and grabbing a rebound.

CAREER NUMBERS WATCH
Against Texas Southern:

Krystal Freeman scored her 50th career point.
Harlyn Wyatt played in her 100th career game.

Coming up soon:

Kaila Anderson needs 18 points for 100 and one more rebound for 50.
Kayla Manuirirangi will score 300 points with 6 more.
Krystal Freeman is three rebounds shy of 50.
Ksenija Madzarevic is one point away from 100.
Meredith Schulte will reach her 100th played game with one more appearance.

NEXT UP
Tulane will be playing its second consecutive Power Five opponent on Sunday when it takes on Washington. The game will be played at Fogelman in Devlin at 4 p.m.