Wednesday, February 6
New Orleans
7 p.m.
Tulane University
vs
USF
Women's Basketball Hosts USF Wednesday Night on ESPN3
Feb 5, 2019 | Women's Basketball
| GAME 22: TULANE GREEN WAVE (14-7, 4-4) vs. USF BULLS (11-11, 2-6) | |
| When: | Wednesday, February 6 | 7 p.m. CST |
| Where: | New Orleans | Avron B. Fogelman Arena in the Devlin Fieldhouse |
| Watch: | ESPN3 |
| Radio: | WRBH 88.3 FM | Listen Online |
| Live Scoring: | Statbroadcast |
| Notes: | Tulane | USF |
| Social: | @GreenWaveWBB |
NEW ORLEANS – The Green Wave women's basketball team is back home Wednesday night for a matchup against USF on ESPN3 with the game tipping off at 7 p.m.
Wednesday is National Girls and Women in Sports Day, and the Green Wave will be celebrating the day as they take on the Bulls.
STARTING FIVE
- The Green Wave enter Wednesday's game after a narrow loss to ECU in Greenville, North Carolina on Saturday. Tulane trailed by double digits for a good portion of the game before coming back within 1 point in the fourth quarter. Tulane has now lost 4 of its last 5 games.
- Krystal Freeman was a double-double machine last week, recording two double-doubles with points and rebounds to earn herself a spot on the conference Honor Roll for the third time this season.
- Dynah Jones has taken over a starting spot in the last two games and took over in the fourth quarter at ECU. She scored 13 of her 15 points in the fourth quarter as Tulane mounted a comeback.
- Tulane's 3-point defense this season has been stellar, as the team is fifth in the nation in that category, allowing opponents to hit just 25.0 percent of their 3-point attempts.
- Tulane freshmen and sophomores have combined for 66 percent of Green Wave scoring, 64 percent of Tulane minutes and 74 percent of Tulane's assists. Tulane's underclassmen have also contributed 54 percent of the team rebounding.
- The Green Wave and Bulls have faced off 38 times in their history, with the teams tied exactly at 19-19.
- Since Tulane joined the American Athletic Conference in 2014-15, USF has won all 10 meetings between the sides including one game in the 2015 conference tournament.
- When the teams met in Tampa in January, USF dominated after a first-quarter timeout, defeating the Green Wave by 27. Tulane's last win against the Bulls came in 2009.
- The Bulls, based in Tampa, Florida, are 11-11 so far this season and 2-6 in American Athletic Conference play. In the league, USF has lost to UCF twice, and UConn, Memphis, Cincinnati and SMU.
- USF has finished in the top three of The American in each of the five years it has been in the league. The Bulls were the league's No. 2 team three times.
- The team's top scorer who will play Saturday is Sydni Harvey and her 12.6 points per game. Enna Pehadzic has also been hot for USF lately, averaging 9.6 points per game including two made 3-pointers per contest.
- Alyssa Rader is back after missing several games due to a concussion, and she and Shae Leverett average 7.4 rebounds per game.
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 66 percent of Green Wave scoring, 64 percent of Tulane minutes and 74 percent of Tulane's assists. Tulane's underclassmen have also contributed 54 percent of the team rebounding.
DOUBLE-DOUBLE MACHINE
For the second consecutive game, Krystal Freeman recorded a double-double in Tulane's game at ECU on Saturday. This time, she tied a career high with 22 points while adding 12 rebounds. On January 30 at Memphis, Freeman put up 16 points and 10 rebounds. She now has five double-doubles this season, and her performance last week put her on the American Athletic Conference's Honor Roll for the third time this season. Freeman previously had double-doubles of 22 points/11 rebounds, 17 points/10 rebounds and 17 points/20 rebounds.
JONES GOES OFF
Dynah Jones was a giant part of Tulane's comeback effort on Saturday at ECU. In her third start of the season, Jones scored 13 of her 15 total points in the fourth quarter to bring Tulane from down 9 points to within 1. Jones began the fourth quarter with a 3-pointer and scored 10 consecutive Tulane points in the middle of the period. She is now the third-leading scorer on the team with 7.0 points per game and has five double-digit scoring games this season.
HOME SWEET HOME
Tulane is 7-3 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.
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 .250 from downtown this year, a number that puts Tulane fifth in the country. The Green Wave have allowed opponents to make 30 percent or more of their 3-pointers just six times so far this year and have held opponents under 20 percent from long range five times.
CAREER NUMBERS WATCH
Coming up soon:
- Kaila Anderson will reach 100 rebounds with five more and 200 points with 4 more.
- Krystal Freeman needs eight more rebounds for 200.
- Kayla Manuirirangi is six made 3-pointers shy of 100.
- Harlyn Wyatt needs three more blocks for 100.
- Tatyana Lofton is four rebounds away from 100.
Tulane hits the road once again this weekend, heading to Tulsa to take on the Golden Hurricane at 2 p.m. central.
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