Tulane Readies for North Texas on Super Sunday

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DENTON, TX - The Tulane women's basketball team (15-7 overall, 8-3 American Athletic Conference) travels to Denton to take on the North Texas Mean Green (16-7, 8-3) Sunday at 2 p.m. in The Super Pit.

Both teams enter the game knotted for third place in the league standings.

The game will be carried on ESPNU with Angel Gray and Brooke Weisbrod on the call.

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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.

WHITTINGTON GETS TO 1500: With 10 points in the win over Wichita State, Kyren Whittington landed right on 1,500 career points. She has 1,116 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 15 games this season and has fouled as many or fewer times than its opponents on that same number of occasions (including eight of the last nine games).

Tulane's 20 free throws made at Rice on Wednesday was the most against an AAC school since connecting on 23 in a 61-52 win over Cincinnati in the conference tournament on March 6, 2023.

KEENAN: Victoria Keenan paces the league (and is third nationally) with a 47.3 percent clip from the perimeter. She is also 18th in the country with 2.77 3-pointers per contest and 21st with 61 total triples on the year.

GETTING DEFENSIVE: Tulane leads the American Athletic Conference in field goal percentage defense (36.8), a figure that is 30th nationally. Tulane also paces the conference in 3-point percentage defense (26.9) and is 27th nationally in that statistic. The team yielded just 11 3-point attempts to Rice on Wednesday, the fewest since also surrendering that number to Wichita State (69-61 W) on February 9, 2023.

GETTING OFFENSIVE: The team has also been incredibly consistent in its offensive scoring output this season and now leads the league with 70.1 points per contest. A large part of that can be traced to its 43.4 percent clip from the field, which also leads the AAC. In its last five games, Tulane has connected on 50.6 percent from the field (137-for-271). That's up from its 37.9 percent showing (119-for-314) over its previous five. Interestingly enough, the Green Wave has taken nearly nine fewer shots per game (54.2 down from 62.8) over its last five contests as well.

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 seven times. Amira Mabry leads the way there with four (Dec. 23, Dec. 30, Jan. 6, Jan. 27), Sherese Pittman twice (Nov. 18, Jan. 13) and Kyren Whittington on November 25.

Tulane Readies for North Texas on Super Sunday

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Victoria Keenan

Amira Mabry

Sherese Pittman

Sadie Shores

Kendall Sneed

Kyren Whittington

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