Saturday, January 26
New Orleans
2 p.m.
Tulane University
vs
Wichita State
Women's Hoops is #LockedInForStockton Against Wichita State Saturday
Jan 25, 2019 | Women's Basketball
| GAME 19: TULANE GREEN WAVE (13-5, 3-2) vs. WICHITA STATE SHOCKERS (7-11, 0-5) | |
| When: | Saturday, January 26 | 2 p.m. CST |
| Where: | New Orleans | Avron B. Fogelman Arena in the Devlin Fieldhouse |
| Watch: | Tulane All-Access |
| Radio: | WRBH 88.3 FM | Listen Online |
| Live Scoring: | Statbroadcast |
| Notes: | Tulane | Wichita State |
| Social: | @GreenWaveWBB |
NEW ORLEANS – Tulane women's basketball returns home Saturday afternoon for a clash with Wichita State at 2 p.m. Before the game, Tulane will honor Coach Lisa Stockton during its #LockedInForStockton game as the team gives Stockton a game ball for reaching 500 victories at Tulane. Alumni from the last 25 years of Coach Stockton's tenure will also be in attendance and honored at halftime.
The first 250 fans in attendance will receive free Lisa Stockton pint glasses on their way out of the building.
STARTING FIVE
- Tulane enters Saturday's game on a two-game losing streak for just the second time this season. Before losing two straight, Tulane had won six consecutive games.
- Sophomore Krystal Freeman continues to excel on offense as she scored 17 points at USF on Saturday. She leads Tulane with 13.0 points per game after scoring just 1.9 per game as a freshman.
- Tulane's 3-point defense this season has been stellar, as the team is eighth in the nation in that category, allowing opponents to hit just 24.9 percent of their 3-point attempts.
- Tulane freshmen and sophomores have combined for 64 percent of Green Wave scoring, 64 percent of Tulane minutes and 76 percent of Tulane's assists. Tulane's underclassmen have also contributed 54 percent of the team rebounding.
- Tulane has played Wichita State just three times and is 1-2 against the Shockers. The Green Wave will look to break a two-game slide against Wichita State on Saturday.
- Wichita State is a relatively new opponent for Tulane, as the teams have only faced each other three times in their history with Wichita State holding a 2-1 all-time lead.
- The teams first met in Berkeley, California, in 2003, a 62-59 win for the Green Wave.
- When the Shockers joined the Green Wave's league last year, the teams met twice with Wichita State winning 64-56 in New Orleans and 81-70 in Kansas.
- The Shockers, based out of Wichita, Kansas, are an incredibly young team this season after graduating eight seniors last year. Wichita State has seven freshmen and a redshirt freshman on its 2018-19 roster, and its youth has led to a 7-11 record overall and an 0-5 mark in league play so far this year.
- Sabrina Lozada-Cabbage is the team's most experienced returner and averages 8.6 points and 5.8 rebounds per game. Carla Bremaud leads the Shockers with 9.8 points per game.
- Despite the poor record, Wichita State is only outscored on averaged by 4.4 points per game and is only beaten on the boards by 0.4 rebounds per game.
- Wichita State ranks in the top 100 nationally in steals per game (9.1) and turnovers forced (18.9).
Now in 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 GETS 500
With a victory over Nicholls on December 4, Coach Lisa Stockton recorded her 500th victory at Tulane. In her 25 years with the Green Wave, Stockton is averaging 20 wins per season – and rising. She is currently the nation's 10th-longest tenured coach at a D1 school. She has more than eight times as many wins as the second-place coach in program history (Joline Matsunami, 1985-90, 60 wins). She will be honored for her 500th win Saturday against Wichita State.
UNDERCLASSMEN OVERPERFORMING
Tulane's roster is seeing a youth movement this year 2018-19 with underclassmen getting a supermajority of minutes played, points scored and assists. Freshmen and sophomores have combined for 64 percent of Green Wave scoring, 64 percent of Tulane minutes and 76 percent of Tulane's assists. Tulane's underclassmen have also contributed 55 percent of the team rebounding.
SO YOU WANT TO BE A COACH
Senior Harlyn Wyatt earned a spot in the Women's Basketball Coaches Association's "So You Want To Be A Coach" program on Wednesday, marking the fifth consecutive year that a Green Wave player will participate in the program. Wyatt is one of 60 players in the country who will take part in the program and is the only player selected from the American Athletic Conference.
Selected players will travel to Tampa, Florida, to take part in the three-day workshop with speakers provided by WeCOACH on April 3-5.
THREE-POINT DEFENSE
The Green Wave have done an excellent job defending the 3-point line so far this season. Tulane opponents are shooting just.249 from downtown this year, a number that puts Tulane eighth in the country. The Green Wave have allowed opponents to make 30 percent of their 3-pointers just four times so far this year and have held opponents under 20 percent from long range four times.
FREEMAN SCORES BIG
Sophomore Krystal Freeman had another giant scoring day last week, putting up 17 points to lead Tulane at USF. Freeman has now recorded double-figure scoring in 14 of Tulane's 18 games this year and has reached 15 points in nine games. The second-year star averaged just 1.9 points per game as a freshman but is leading Tulane with 13.0 points per game in 2018-19.
WYATT BLOCKING SHOTS
Senior Harlyn Wyatt had another great blocking day on Saturday at USF, as she piled up three total blocks. Wyatt is now eighth all-time in team history with 94 blocks and had a career-high six blocks against Nicholls on December 4. That number tied her for ninth all-time in a single game at Tulane. Wyatt already has 21 blocks this year. Her single-season career high is 30.
HOME SWEET HOME
Tulane is 7-2 so far at home in 2018-19. The Green Wave have never posted a single-season home record below .500 in Lisa Stockton's 24 full years as the coach.
HOLDING THE LEAD
Tulane has done a tremendous job this season of getting out front and staying there. The team is a perfect 12-0 when it leads games with five minutes left, 11-0 when it leads after the third quarter, 11-0 when it leads at halftime and 9-0 when it leads after the first quarter.
CAREER NUMBERS WATCH
Coming up soon:
- Tatyana Lofton needs 7 more points for 200 at Tulane.
- Kaila Anderson will reach 100 rebounds with 10 more.
- Krystal Freeman will reach 300 points when she scores 24 more.
- Mia Heide's next rebound will be her 50th.
Tulane has its next two games on the road, as the team will travel to Memphis on Wednesday and ECU on Saturday. The Green Wave and Tigers will tip off at 6 p.m. at Elma Roane Fieldhouse on Wednesday.
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