Tulane Travels to Southern Miss. for Nonconference Matchup

When:	Wednesday, Dec. 4 \| 5 p.m. CT
Where:	Hattiesburg, Miss. \| Reed Green Coliseum
Radio:	WRBH 88.3 FM \| Listen Online
Notes:	Tulane PDF
Live Stats:	SouthernMiss.com
Social:	@GreenWaveWBB

NEW ORLEANS – The Tulane University women's basketball team will travel to play Southern Miss. in Hattiesburg, Miss., on Dec. 4. Tip-off is set for 5 p.m. at Reed Green Coliseum.

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 leads the Green Wave in points per game at 12.8, while Freeman is tops on the team with 6.0 rebounds per game.
3.           Junior Kaila Anderson dished out a career-high 10 assists against Middle Tennessee State.
4.           The 38 points scored by Central Arkansas marked the lowest total points scored by a Tulane opponent since Florida A&M scored 32 on Dec. 30, 2018.
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 – SOUTHERN MISS.
• The Lady Eagles lead the all-time series with Tulane 36-31. Southern Miss. holds a 23-8 advantage in Hattiesburg, Miss.
• The Green Wave are 24-12 against Southern Miss. under head coach Lisa Stockton.
• Tulane took a 71-54 win over the Lady Eagles last season. Junior Sierra Cheatham led the Wave with 13 points, while junior Krystal Freeman grabbed a team-high six rebounds.

SCOUTING THE LADY EAGLES
• Southern Miss. comes into the game with a 6-1 record with the only coming to then-No. 10 Mississippi State.
• The Eagles average 64.0 points per game, while holding opponents to 58.0 points.
• Southern Miss. forces opponents into 17.7 turnovers per game and scores 21.4 points off said turnovers.
• The Lady Eagles average 35.9 rebounds and 13.7 assists per game.
• Senior guard Shonte Hailes leads the team with 16.6 points per game.
• Redshirt sophomore center Kelsey Jones grabs a team-high 5.0 rebounds per game.
• Sophomore guard Daishai Almond is the facilitator for the Lady Eagles logging 26 assists on the season. Almonds chips in 7.1 points per game.
• Head coach Joye Lee-McNelis has compiled a career record of 483-381. She has a 254-225 record during her 16 seasons at Southern Miss.
• Lee-McNelis coached 13 seasons at Memphis prior to coming to Hattiesburg, Miss.

AGAINST THE C-USA
• Tulane is 122-96 against teams currently from Conference USA. The Green Wave is 103-54 against CUSA teams under Stockton.
• The Green Wave most recently beat a CUSA team on Dec. 1, 2018 when they defeated Southern Miss, 71-54.
• The Olive and Blue have collected a 48-53 record against CUSA teams on the road.

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 ranks third in the AAC in assists per game at 4.4. She ranks 90th in the NCAA in the category.

CLARK LEADS THE WAY
• Transfer junior Arsula Clark has led the Green Wave in scoring in five of the first eight games this season. She scored a season-high 23 points on Nov. 14 against MTSU after logging
18 at Washington on Nov. 10.
• Clark logged double-doubles in two straight games with a team-high 17 points and 11 rebounds against LSU and 13 points and 10 rebounds in the win over Central Arkansas.
• She was named to the AAC's weekly honor roll after the first two weeks of the season.

CLARK GRABS 400
• With her eighth rebound against LSU, Clark grabbed her 400th career rebound. She now has 420 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 574 points in her career.

MANUIRIRANGI GETS 500
• After scoring a combined 21 points at the Puerto Rico Clasico, senior Kayla Manuirirangi scored the 500th point of her career. She currently has 502 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 60.5 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 8.6 points during the second quarter of home games this season.
• Central Arkansas' 38 total points were the fewest points allowed by the Green Wave since FAMU scored 32 in 2018.

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.
• Tulane held Central Arkansas to 17.6 percent from 3-point range. Green Wave opponents are shooting 29.4 percent from behind the arc this season.
• The Wave held Charlotte to 16.7 percent shooting from behind the arc on Nov. 29.

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 eight this season, six players are averaging at least five points and two 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 26.5 points per game through the first eight games of the season.
• 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.
• Dynah Jones provided 11 points off the bench against Central Arkansas. Mia Heide scored 12 and added five blocks off the bench against Alabama.
• The team scored a season-high 56 points off the bench on Nov. 28 against Boston College

CAREER NUMBERS WATCH
Coming up soon:
• Sierra Cheatham is 24 points from 500.
• Krystal Freeman is 26 points from 600.
• Arsula Clark is 187 points from 1,000.

UP NEXT
The Green Wave will return home on Saturday, Dec. 7, as they take on South Alabama. Tip-off is set for 4 p.m. in Avron B. Fogelman Arena in 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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