Tulane Hosts Central Arkansas for Education Day

When:	Friday, Nov. 22 \| 12 p.m.
Where:	New Orleans \| Avron B. Fogelman Arena in Devlin Fieldhouse
Watch:	Tulane All-Access
Radio:	WRBH 88.3 FM \| Listen Online
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NEW ORLEANS – The Tulane University women's basketball team will host Central Arkansas on Friday, Nov. 22. Tip-off is set for 12 p.m. This game will serve as the Green Wave's education day.

STARTING FIVE
1.           Junior Krystal Freeman was named First Team Preseason All-American Athletic Conference heading into the 2019-20 season.
2.           Transfer junior Arsula Clark grabbed a season-high 11 rebounds and led the team with 17 points against LSU. She has led the team in scoring in three of the first four games.
3.           Junior Kaila Anderson dished out a career-high 10 assists against Middle Tennessee State.
4.           With a fast break layup in the first quarter against MTSU, Freeman scored her 500th career-point. She joined Clark as the second player on the Tulane roster to reach the 500 points mark. Freeman now has 524 career points.
5.           Tulane held LSU to only two points in the second quarter Sunday. This was the 15th time the Green Wave have held an opponent to five or less points in a quarter since the NCAA moved to the quarter format in the 2015-16 season. The two points by the Tigers tied the all-time low with the two points Florida A&M scored in the second quarter on 12/30/18.

SERIES HISTORY – UCA
• Tulane and Central Arkansas have never met.

SCOUTING THE SUGAR BEARS
• Central Arkansas comes into the game with a 1-2 record. The Sugar Bears took a game against Hendrix College, while falling to Tennessee and Little Rock.
• Against Division I teams, UCA's opponents are averaging 63 points per game. The Sugar Bears are shooting 41.8 percent from the field this season.
• Freshman guard Terri Crawford leads the team with 11.3 points per game. She is second on the team with 5.3 rebounds a game.
• Junior forward Hannah Langhi grabs a team-high 6.0 rebounds and is second on the team with 11.0 points.
• Senior guard Taylor Sells is the team's facilitator with 2.3 assists per game. Sells adds 9.7 points and 4.0 boards a game.
• Head coach Sandra Rushing is currently in her eighth season at UCA. She has a 142-80 record during her time in Conway, Arkansas. She previously had stops at Millsaps, UTEP, Henderson State and Delta State over 31 seasons. Rushing has collected a 545-335 career-record.

AGAINST THE SOUTHLAND
• Tulane is 89-73 against teams currently from the Southland Conference. The Green Wave is 46-2 against Southland teams under Stockton.
• The Olive and Blue most recently beat a Southland team on Dec. 4, 2018 when they defeated Nicholls 71-46.
• Tulane has collected a 68-22 record against Southland teams at Fogelman in Devlin.

COMEBACK KIDS
• The Olive and Blue trailed by 18 points with 1:24 remaining in the third quarter at Washington. Tulane then went on a 31-11 run to close the game and take a 64-62 win.
• Junior Arsula Clark knocked down the game winner with 0.5 seconds remaining to cap off the comeback. She scored 14 of her game-high 18 points in the second half.

ANDERSON DISHING DIMES
• Kaila Anderson dished out a career-high 10 assists against MTSU. She logged seven of the 10 in the first half.
• Anderson started the season with high assist numbers as she logged six assists against the Jackson State Nov. 5.
• The Kenner, Louisiana native leads the AAC in assists per game at 6.0. She ranks 24th in the NCAA in the category.

CLARK LEADS THE WAY
• Transfer junior Arsula Clark has led the Green Wave in scoring in three of the first four games this season. She scored a season-high 23 points on Nov. 14 against MTSU after logging
18 at Washington on Nov. 10.
• She recorded a team-high 17 points in the loss to LSU.
• Clark was second on the team with 15 points against Jackson State (Nov. 5). She leads the team with18.3 points per game.
• She was named to the AAC's weekly honor roll after the first two weeks of the season.
• Clark is third in The American in field goal percentage at .604.

CLARK GRABS 400
• With her eighth rebound against LSU, Clark grabbed her 400th career rebound. She now has 403 rebounds for her career. The Miami native is the only player with 400 or more rebounds on Tulane's roster.

FREEMAN GETS 500
• With her fast break layup in the first quarter against MTSU on Nov. 14, junior Krystal Freeman scored her 500th point. She joined Clark as the second player on the team to score 500 points in her career. She now has 524 points in her career.

DEFENSE DOES IT
• The Green Wave defense was strong last season, giving up fewer than 60 points 15 times and fewer than 50 points four times. On December 30, 2018, against FAMU, Tulane allowed just 34 points. The team's scoring defense of 59.9 points per game ranked 67th nationally, and opponents' .367 field goal percentage ranked 34th in the nation.
• The good defense continued this season as the Green Wave held Jackson State to 46 points on 22.7 percent shooting. Tulane's opponents are averaging 57.8 points per game this season.
• The Green Wave held LSU to 59 points and 39.6 percent shooting. This included holding the Tigers to two points in the second quarter, which marked the 15th time Tulane has held an opponent to five or fewer points in a quarter since the NCAA moved to the four quarters format in the 2015-16 season.
• Tulane has held opponents to 9.0 points during the second quarter of home games this season.

OH CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN
• Senior Kayla Manuirirangi and juniors Kaila Anderson and Sierra Cheatham were voted the team's captains prior to this season.

MORE THAN A QUARTER CENTURY WITH COACH
• Now in her 26th year with the Green Wave women's basketball program in 2019-20, 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.

#LOCKEDINFORSTOCKTON
• With a victory over Nicholls on December 4, Coach Lisa Stockton recorded her 500th victory at Tulane. In her 26 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 was honored for her 500th win on January 26, 2019 against Wichita State.

THREE-POINT DEFENSE
• The Green Wave did an excellent job defending the 3-point line last season. Tulane opponents shot just .264 from downtown last year, a number that put Tulane seventh in the country. The Green Wave allowed opponents to make 30 percent or more of their 3-pointers just nine times last year and held opponents under 20 percent from long range five times.
• The good 3-point defense continued to start the 2019-20 season as Jackson State shot 15.8 percent from behind the arc. This was the lowest 3-point percentage by a Tulane opponent since Memphis shot 11.1 percent on 2/2/2019.

HOLDING THE LEAD
• Tulane has done a tremendous job of getting out front and staying there since last season. The team is 15-1 when it leads games with five minutes left, 13-3 when it leads after the third quarter, 13-3 when it leads at halftime and 10-3 when it leads after the first quarter stretching over the last two seasons.

SPREADING THE BALL AROUND
• On the 2017-18 roster, only six players averaged at least 4.0 points per game. Last season, eight players averaged at least 4.0 points per game.
• Through game four this season, six players are averaging at least four points and three players are averaging double-figures.

ROLLING DEEP
• Through the regular season, the Green Wave bench played a huge part of the offense. Tulane bench players combined for 21.2 points per game in 2018-19, and Green Wave opponents averaged just 14.1 points per game off the bench.
• The bench is averaging 23.5 points per game through the first four games of the season, while holding opponents to 18.7 a game.
• Arsula Clark was a spark off the bench scoring 15 and 18 points in the first two games of the season, respectively. She scored 13 of her game-high 18 in the fourth quarter at Washington. Clark started her first game of the season against MTSU.

UP NEXT
• The Green Wave will host Alabama on Sunday, Nov. 24. Tip-off is set for 4 p.m. at Fogelman in Devlin.

TICKETS
Tickets for the 2019-20 season can be purchased by calling 504-861-WAVE (9283), logging on to TulaneTix.com or visiting the ticket office at the James W. Wilson Jr. Center.

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