Tulsa 81, Florida Atlantic 72
Four Tulsa women's basketball players scored in double-figures to push the Golden Hurricane to an 81-72 win over the Florida Atlantic Owls Saturday in Boca Raton. TU improved to 13-5 and 3-2 in American Athletic Conference play, while the Owls dropped to 5-11 and 0-5 in league action.
Tulsa's double-digit scorers were Delanie Crawford, who led with 25 points, Temira Poindexter with 18 points, Ahrray Young with 14 points and Mady Cartwright with 10 points.
FAU's Jada Moore led the Owls with 18 points, 15 of which came in the first half.
Fueling TU's defense was Jessika Evans, who recorded a career-high five steals and one block to go with four defensive boards. For a third consecutive game, Hadley Periman led Tulsa in rebounds (6), pulling down three on offense and three on defense.
Poindexter has now scored in double digits in the first half of a game nine times this season, with 11 coming in the first half.
Tulane 81, East Carolina 55
Behind the near school record shooting performance from Hannah Pratt, Tulane's women's basketball team (8-7, 1-3 The American) rolled over visiting East Carolina (9-6, 2-2 The American) on Saturday, Jan. 13, at Devlin Fieldhouse.
Pratt made eight three pointers in scoring a career-high 26 points. She also had seven rebounds and a pair of blocks. Pratt's eight threes made were one off the school record of nine set by Tiffany Aidoo on Jan. 9, 2011 against UAB.
Also scoring in double figures for the Green Wave was Amira Mabry with 14 points. She also had a career-high 11 rebounds in the game for her first career double-double. Marta Galic tallied 14 points and three rebounds. Joy Madison-Key recorded eight points and a career-high seven assists plus a steal. Jaylee Womack chipped in with seven points. McKenzi Carter tallied five points, two rebounds, an assist and two blocks. Irina Parau had a strong all-around game with seven assists, six rebounds and a pair of steals to go along with two points. Chiara Grattini had six assists plus three rebounds and three points. Kaylah Rainey returned after missing the previous two games with an injury to score two points and have an assist. Lilly Ba contributed a rebound.
East Carolina was led by 12 points from Danae McNeal.
Tulane led this one throughout in a truly dominate effort for the program. The program's largest lead was 34 points early in the fourth quarter, 74-40, on a Pratt layup. Tulane shot 50 percent from the field (30-for-59), 54.2 percent from three-point range (13-for-24) and 88.9 from the free throw line (8-for-9). The Green Wave had 44 rebounds, 23 assists, seven steals and six blocks. Tulane's defense was able to force 22 ECU turnovers and outscored the Pirates 32-20 in the paint, 19-10 in second chance points, 8-5 on the fast break and held a 22-21 advantage off the bench.
ECU was limited to 27.9 percent shooting from the field (19-for-68) and 11.8 percent from three-point range (2-for-17). The Pirates had 35 rebounds, eight assists, 12 steals and four blocks.
Tulane led 20-8 after the first quarter and extended the advantage to 41-23 at the break. The Green Wave kept their foot on the gas in outscoring ECU 27-16 in the third quarter and finished this one off with a 26-point victory, 81-55.