Women’s Basketball Heads to Washington

When:	Sunday, Nov. 10 \| 4 p.m. CST
Where:	Seattle, Wash. \| Alaska Airlines Arena at HEC Edmundson Pavilion
Watch:	Pac-12+
Radio:	WRBH 88.3 FM \| Listen Online
Live Scoring:	Stat Broadcast
Notes:	Tulane (PDF) \| Washington (PDF)
Social:	@GreeWaveWBB

NEW ORLEANS – The Tulane University women's basketball team will head to Seattle, Washington, to play Washington on Sunday, Nov. 10. Tip-off is set for 4 p.m. CST at Alaska Airlines Arena at HEC Edmundson Pavilion.

STARTING FIVE
1. Junior Krystal Freeman was named First Team Preseason All-American Athletic Conference heading into the 2019-20 season.
2. The Green Wave ranks fifth in the NCAA in Rebounds per game at 59.0 and defensive rebounds per game at 43.0.
3. Tulane is 18-7 in road openers under head coach Lisa Stockton. The Green Wave have gone 9-1 in the last 10 road openers.
4. The Green Wave ranks 11th in the NCAA with eight blocked shots after the first game of the season.
5. Tulane was picked to finish seventh in the conference prior to the 2019-20 season.

SERIES HISTORY – WASHINGTON
• The Olive and Blue is 1-0 all-time in the lone meeting with Washington
• The Green Wave beat the Huskies 63-51 last season in Avron B. Fogelman Arena in the only meeting between the two teams.

SCOUTING THE HUSKIES
• Washington finished the 2018-19 season with an 11-21 overall record and made a run to Pac-12 Tournament Semifinals.
• The Huskies return 85 percent of their scoring from last year, including All-Pac-12 honorable mention selection Amber Melgoza.
• Melgoza led Washington with 18.1 points per game last season. The Huskies also return Missy Peterson who averaged 9.4 points a game last season.
• Washington forced opponents into 16.1 turnovers per game last season and scored 15.0 points per game off said turnovers.
• This will be head coach Jody Wynn's third season with the Huskies. She has an 18-44 record in Seattle.
• The Huskies will tip-off the season Friday, Nov. 8, against Cal State Bakersfield.

AGAINST POWER-5 and PAC-12
• Tulane women's basketball holds an all-time record of 82-151 against teams now in the Power-5 conferences and an 18-80 all-time record on the road. Coach Lisa Stockton has earned a 54-72 record against Power-5 teams.
• The Green Wave has a 4-7 record against teams in the Pac-12 and a 3-6 record under Stockton against said teams. Tulane has never won a game on the road against a Pac-12 opponent (0-5). The last win against a Pac-12 team came last season with the 63-51 victory over Washington.

SUCCESS IN ROAD OPENERS
• Under coach Stockton, Tulane is is 18-7 in true road season openers. The Green Wave is 12-2 dating back to the 2005-06 season in the first road game of the 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.

FREEMAN WINS MOST IMPROVED, SECOND TEAM
• Krystal Freeman was undeniably a candidate for The American's Most Improved Player Award last season, and the league agreed when it gave her the honor. Freeman was also named Second Team All-Conference. Averaging 1.9 points and 1.9 rebounds per game as a freshman, she improved those numbers to 14.3 and 7.4, respectively, leading Tulane in both categories. She compiled seven double-doubles last season after none as a freshman, and she was named the league's Player of the Week twice and to the Honor Roll four times. Freeman recorded double-figure scoring in 25 of Tulane's 30 games last year and reached 15 points in 16 games. Freeman is Tulane's first Most Improved Player since Leslie Vorpahl in 2015.

JONES NAMED ALL-FRESHMAN
• Dynah Jones earned recognition from The American last season by being placed on the conference's All-Freshman Team. Jones was third on Tulane's roster with 7.9 points per game, had 2.5 boards per game and was third on the team 48 assists. In conference-only games, Jones was second on the team with 7.4 points per game. She became a big part of the team in the second half of the season, starting eight total games and seven in conference play. In the league, she averaged 17.5 minutes per game. She scored in double figures 10 times including a 22-point effort against then-No. 18 Cal. Jones was Tulane's first member of the All-Freshman Team since Taylor Emery in 2015-16.

CHEATHAM EARNS AMBASSADOR AWARD
• Sierra Cheatham picked up a prestigious award from the American Athletic Conference last season, winning the league's Ambassador Award. The Ambassador Award is given annually to the student-athlete who most exemplifies the ideals of sportsmanship on the court – ethical behavior, fair play and integrity – along with community service off the court. Cheatham participated in numerous community service activities off the court and is one of the most disciplined players on the court, placing second on the roster in fewest fouls per minute in 2018-19. Cheatham was Tulane's first winner of the Ambassador Award.

CLOSE CALLS
• Though Tulane lost nine of its last 10 games of the 2018-19 season, many of those losses were incredibly close. The Green Wave's average margin of defeat in its last nine losses were just 6.3 points per game. Removing the 15-point loss to Cincinnati on March 4, 2019, Tulane's average margin of defeat in the seven prior games was just 4.7 points per game.

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 perfect 15-0 when it leads games with five minutes left, 13-1 when it leads after the third quarter, 13-1 when it leads at halftime and 10-2 when it leads after the first quarter stretching over last season and this season.

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.

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 one, nine players have scored at least four points and four players have scored in double-figures.

ROLLING DEEP
• Through the regular season, the Green Wave bench played a huge part of the offense. Green Wave bench players combined for 21.2 points per game in 2018-19, and Tulane opponents averaged just 14.1 points per game off the bench.

• The bench scored 40 points in the win over Jackson State, while only allowing the Tigers to score 15 bench points. Junior Arsula Clark came off the bench to score 15 points for the Green Wave.

Up Next
The Green Wave will host Middle Tennessee State on Thursday, Nov. 14, at Avron B. Fogelman Arena in the Devlin Fieldhouse.
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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Players Mentioned

Sierra Cheatham

Arsula Clark

Krystal Freeman

Dynah Jones

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