Tulane Falls to Crimson Tide

Thursday, November 10

NEW ORLEANS

6:00 P.M.

Tulane University

1-1,0-0AAC

University of Alabama

2-0,0-0SEC

Alabama

Tulane

Photo by: Parker Waters

Nov 10, 2022 | Women's Basketball

Box Score

NEW ORLEANS – Tulane University Women's Basketball suffered its first loss of the season Thursday night in Avron B. Fogelman Arena in the Devlin Fieldhouse falling 72-61 to Alabama. A difficult shooting night for the Green Wave led to an early deficit that the team was unable to overcome down the stretch.

Irina Parau and Kyren Whittington led the Wave offensively as Parau reached a career-high with 14 points while Whittington followed with 12. Parua nearly notched her first career double-double adding nine rebounds to her stat sheet. The next top scorers for Tulane on the evening were Marta Galic with nine and Rachel Hakes and Dynah Jones each with eight.

Alabama's Brittany Davis led all scorers with 24 points to go with a game-high 11 rebounds as well.

The Crimson Tide jumped out to the early advantage in the first quarter leading by as many as seven (12-5) with 4:33 to play. Tulane responded with six-straight points off Alabama turnovers on back-to-back three-pointers from Galic and Whittington. The Green Wave kept the score tight at the end of the opening frame trailing 13-14.

In the second quarter Tulane struggled to find its rhythm on the offensive end of the floor shooting 1-of-6 from downtown and committing six turnovers. The Wave was outscored 11-24 in the frame and hit the locker room facing a 24-38 deficit.

The Green Wave came out to battle in the second half exchanging buckets with the Tide throughout the third quarter to hit the final quarter trailing 40-57.

After Alabama pulled ahead by 23 (65-42) with 6:44 on the clock in the final frame, the Wave responded with a 14-2 run to cut its deficit down to 11 with three minutes to play. Unfortunately, Tulane would not get much closer than that as the deficit never dropped below double digits with the Wave falling by a final score of 72-61.

Up next, Tulane will travel to Mobile, Alabama, for its first road test of the season against South Alabama. The Green Wave and the Jaguars will face off Thursday, November 17, at 7 p.m.

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