Tulane Throttles Rice for Fourth Straight Victory

Wednesday, February 5

Houston, TX

7:00 PM

Tulane University

15-7,8-3AAC

Rice University

12-11,5-6AAC

Tulane

Rice

Kendall Sneed

Tulane Throttles Rice for Fourth Straight Victory

Feb 5, 2025 | Women's Basketball

Box Score

HOUSTON, TX – Tulane forward Sherese Pittman registered 25 points and eight rebounds to power a fine Green Wave road effort in a 78-67 triumph over host Rice Wednesday evening at Tudor Fieldhouse in Houston.

The victory, which was the Olive and Blue's fourth in a row, improved the team to 15-7 overall and 8-3 in the American Athletic Conference. The Owls fell to 12-11 and 5-6 in the league with the loss.

Pittman made a pair of 3-pointers and connected on nine of her 10 free throw attempts. Freshman Kendall Sneed, fresh off her fifth AAC Freshman of the Week honor, had 18 points, five assists and three steals. Kyren Whittington also contributed 14 points and Amira Mabry added 10.

The team was excellent at the charity stripe all evening, making 20 of 22 attempts.

Game-high scoring honors went to Rice's Malia Fisher, who had 32 points to go with 11 apiece by Dominique Ennis and Victoria Flores.

The Owls held a 23-22 lead after one quarter but the visitors came back and outscored the hosts 25-12 in the second period.

The deciding stretch of the game came at end of the third and beginning of the fourth quarters that saw Tulane outscore Rice 19-4, culminating with a Sneed layup with 5:50 left in the game. That forced an Owl timeout and made the score 75-54 Tulane before the home team rallied for 13 of the contest's last 16 points.

Rice led on the glass (32-23), offensive rebounds (16-4), points in the paint (42-28) and second chance points (15-5) but Tulane's ability to attack offensively and get to the free throw line won the day. The Green Wave improved on its AAC-best scoring average of 69.8 entering Wednesday's affair.

Tulane will be back in action Sunday at North Texas (18-7 overall, 8-3 AAC) at 2 p.m. on ESPNU in a tussle that will give the victor third place in the conference standings. The Mean Green is coming off a pair of road losses at South Florida on Saturday (65-58) and UTSA (54-52) on Tuesday.

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