Friday, March 8
Uncasville, Conn.
11 a.m.
Tulane University
vs
USF
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Mar 7, 2019 | Women's Basketball
| GAME 30: #12 TULANE GREEN WAVE (15-14) vs. #5 USF BULLS (16-14) | |
| When: | Friday, March 8 | 11 a.m. CST |
| Where: | Uncasville, Conn. | Mohegan Sun Arena |
| Watch: | ESPN3 |
| Radio: | WRBH 88.3 FM | Listen Online |
| Live Scoring: | Statbroadcast |
| Social: | @GreenWaveWBB |
NEW ORLEANS – It's tournament time.
Tulane will open the American Athletic Conference Tournament on Friday with an 11 a.m. contest at Mohegan Sun Arena. The No. 12 Green Wave will face No. 5 USF with the game airing live on ESPN3.
SERIES HISTORY – USF
- The Green Wave and Bulls have faced off 39 times in their history, and USF holds a very narrow 20-19 lead in the series.
- Since Tulane joined the American Athletic Conference in 2014-15, USF has won all 11 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.
- In February in New Orleans, the game was much closer. Tulane shot poorly despite largely outplaying the Bulls in most categories and fell 50-45. Tulane's last win against the Bulls came in 2009.
SCOUTING THE BULLS
- The Bulls, based in Tampa, Florida, are 16-14 so far this season and finished 7-9 in American Athletic Conference play. The Bulls earned the league's No. 5 seed.
- USF has finished in the top three of The American in each of the five years it has been in the league until now. The Bulls were the league's No. 2 team three times.
- The team's top scorer is Enna Pehadzic and her 11.8 points per game. Sydni Harvey has also been hot for USF lately, averaging 11.4 points per game.
- USF has three rebounders averaging more than six boards a game: Tamara Henshaw (8.2 rpg), Shae Leverett (7.7) and Alyssa Rader (6.3).
A QUARTER CENTURY WITH COACH
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.
#LOCKEDINFORSTOCKTON
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 was honored for her 500th win on January 26 against Wichita State.
TULANE IN THE AAC TOURNAMENT
Now in its fifth year in the league, Tulane has a 4-4 record in the American Athletic Conference Tournament. The team went 2-1 in 2015, defeating Houston and Tulsa before falling to USF. In 2016, Tulane defeated Memphis in the opening round before falling in the semifinals to UConn. In 2017, Tulane lost its quarterfinal game against No. 4 seed UCF. Last season, the Green Wave defeated Memphis in its opening-round contest before losing to top-ranked UConn in the semifinals.
TOURNAMENT SEEDING
Tulane earned the No. 12 seed in the conference tournament despite finishing with a record that put Tulane in a four-way tie for ninth place with SMU, Wichita State and Memphis. Because SMU and Wichita State went 3-2 against the other three tied teams, they earned the No. 9 and No. 10 seed. Tulane dropped to No. 12 because it lost the tiebreaker with Memphis. The tiebreaker rested on the teams' record against No. 5 USF: Memphis defeated USF once during the season while Tulane lost both games against the Bulls.
CLOSE CALLS
Though Tulane has lost eight of its last nine games, many of those losses have been incredibly close. The Green Wave's average margin of defeat in its last eight losses is just 6 points per game. Removing the 15-point loss to Cincinnati on Monday, Tulane's average margin of defeat in the seven prior games was just 4.7 points per game.
THREE-POINT DEFENSE
The Green Wave have done an excellent job defending the 3-point line this season. Tulane opponents are shooting just .264 from downtown this year, a number that puts Tulane eighth in the country. The Green Wave have allowed opponents to make 30 percent or more of their 3-pointers just nine times so far this year and have held opponents under 20 percent from long range five times.
HOLDING THE LEAD
Tulane has done a tremendous job this season of getting out front and staying there. The team is a perfect 14-0 when it leads games with five minutes left, 12-1 when it leads after the third quarter, 12-1 when it leads at halftime and 9-2 when it leads after the first quarter.
DEFENSE DOES IT
The Green Wave defense has been strong this season, giving up fewer than 60 points 15 times and fewer than 50 points four times. On December 30 against FAMU, Tulane allowed just 34 points. The team's scoring defense of 59.9 points per game ranks 72nd nationally, and opponents' .364 field goal percentage ranks 37th in the nation.
CAREER NUMBERS WATCH
Against Cincinnati:
- Krystal Freeman earned her 250th career rebound.
- Harlyn Wyatt is 7 points away from 700.
- Krystal Freeman five made field goals from 200.
- Erin Gutierrez is four assists shy of 100.
- Tatyana Lofton will reach 300 points with 15 more, and Meredith Schulte will reach 600 with 15 more.
With a victory over USF on Friday, Tulane would then advance to Saturday's quarterfinal where it would take on No. 4 seed Houston. Tipoff of that game would be at 11 a.m. central on ESPN3.
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