Tulane Looks for Season Sweep over Owls

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NEW ORLEANS – The Tulane women's basketball team returns home to face Temple on Saturday at 3 p.m. inside Avron B. Fogelman Arena in the Devlin Fieldhouse.

The Green Wave enters the game at 15-8 overall and 8-4 in the American Athletic Conference, while Temple comes in at 14-10 and 8-5 in the league.

The two teams met on January 25 in Philadelphia with the Green Wave emerging with a 62-60 victory.

Saturday will be the program's annual Play4Kay game. The featured halftime performance will be a basketball game featuring mascots from around the city of New Orleans.

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The host North Texas women's basketball team made each of its first six 3-point attempts and kept visiting Tulane at bay down the stretch to secure a wire-to-wire 69-64 American Athletic Conference victory Sunday afternoon at The Super Pit in Denton.

The home team was led by Desiree Wooten's 16 points. Ereauna Hardaway added 15, while Tommisha Lampkin and Chaina Price tacked on 11 and 10, respectively. Aniyah Johnson led the way in rebounding with 10.

Kendall Sneed (16) led Tulane in scoring. Sherese Pittman shook off early foul trouble record her fifth double-double of the season with 15 points and 11 rebounds. Amira Mabry had a game-high 12 boards and Victoria Keenan registered four steals.

North Texas jumped Tulane early, boasting a 24-5 lead after one quarter of play. The Green Wave outscored the home team 41-29 over the game's next two quarters but could get no closer than five down the stretch.

Neither team took particularly great care of the ball. The Green Wave committed 24 turnovers, while the Mean Green had 19.

North Texas finished 8-for-13 (61.5 percent) from the perimeter against the AAC's stingiest 3-point percentage defense (26.9 percent entering Sunday).

Four players fouled out Sunday, three by North Texas and Sadie Shores for Tulane.

The Mean Green's bench outscored Tulane's 22-8 as well.

FREE THROWS GALORE: Tulane attempted 29 free throws in the 69-64 loss at North Texas on Sunday. That total was the most for the program in an American Athletic Conference game since hoisting 36 on March 2, 2022.

WHITTINGTON GETS TO 1500: With 10 points in the win over Wichita State, Kyren Whittington landed right on 1,500 career points. She has 1,125 at Tulane and registered 450 during her freshman season at ULM in 2021-22.

FTS AND FOULS: Tulane has made as many or more free throws than the opposition in 16 games this season and has fouled as many or fewer times than its opponents on that same number of occasions (including nine of the last 10 games).

KEENAN: Victoria Keenan paces the league (and is third nationally) with a 47.4 percent clip from the perimeter. She is also 15th in the country with 2.78 3-pointers per contest and 23rd with 64 total triples on the year.

GETTING DEFENSIVE: Tulane paces the conference in 3-point percentage defense (27.8) and is 48th nationally in that statistic.

GETTING OFFENSIVE: The Green Wave now leads the conference in field goal percentage at 43.2, a figure that stands 96th nationally.

AWARD WINNERS: The Green Wave has won the league's Freshman of the Week six times, five by Kendall Sneed (Nov. 25, Dec. 2, Dec. 23, Jan. 27, Feb. 3). Sadie Shores (Dec. 30) collected it the other time. Sneed's total of five is three of the league's record of eight, held by ECU's Amiya Joyner.

Tulane has earned AAC Honorable Mention Player of the Week recognition eight times. Amira Mabry leads the way there with four (Dec. 23, Dec. 30, Jan. 6, Jan. 27), Sherese Pittman three (Nov. 18, Jan. 13, Feb. 10) and Kyren Whittington on November 25.

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Victoria Keenan

Amira Mabry

Sherese Pittman

Sadie Shores

Kendall Sneed

Kyren Whittington

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