SAN ANTONIO — The UTSA women's basketball team is set to take on Tulsa on Wednesday in American Athletic Conference action at 6:30 p.m. inside the Reynolds Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma
The game will be broadcast live on ESPN+, with Josh Haley providing play-by-play alongside Taleya Mayberry (analyst) and Michelle Montaine (sideline). Neal Raphael will deliver the radio call in the greater San Antonio area on The Bull 93.3 FM and worldwide on the iHeartRadio app.
The Roadrunners (12-10, 6-5 The American) are fresh off a 76-58 victory over a first-place UAB squad. Newcomer Aysia Proctor's 14-point, seven-rebound performance earned her the AAC Freshman of the Week accolade for the second time this season.
She led the contest in scoring, going 6-for-9 from the field, including 2-for-4 from beyond the arc, and tied fellow freshman Idara Udo with a team-high seven rebounds. Senior Kyra White, sophomore Sidney Love, and senior Jordyn Jenkins joined Proctor in the double-digit scoring club, as White charted 12 while Love and Jenkins each logged 11.
UTSA enters the matchup leading The American and ranking inside the top 25 nationally in five different statistics, including a 46.3 rebounds per game figure that's sixth in the NCAA. 16.5 offensive boards per game sit eighth, and 29.7 defensive are 14th, while a plus-11.1 rebounds margin ranks eighth as well. Defensively, the Runners keep their opponents to a 36.3% shooting clip, the 20th-best in the country, and 4.9 blocks per game sit 22nd.
Redshirt junior Elyssa Coleman has played a significant role in the Roadrunner's success, logging 1.62 bpg for the second-most in the AAC. White, meanwhile, logs 5.0 apg, the second-highest total in the league, and her 1.54 assists/turnover ratio is fifth. Additionally, she plays 34.8 minutes, a figure that ranks second, and Udo's 3.7 offensive rebounds per game are fourth.
The Golden Hurricane (17-7, 7-4 The American) are tied for fourth in the tightly contested AAC standings, and UTSA is a game behind in seventh. Tulsa fell victim to a potent Rice squad last time out, suffering a 78-66 defeat at the Tudor Fieldhouse in Houston.
Nobody in The American takes more shots from beyond the arc than the Golden Hurricane, as 25.7 attempts sit 18th nationally. 8.2 makes per game is second in the league. Tulsa also ranks just behind UTSA in defensive rebounds per game with 29.2 and field goal defense, as opponents only hit 36.9% of their shots.
The squad boasts two of the conference's best in Temira Poindexter and Delanie Crawford. Poindexter leads the AAC in shots made, sinking 177 on the season for the 22nd-most in the NCAA, and her 428 attempts are the ninth-greatest in the country. She averages 20.4 ppg, which ranks 16th nationally, and Crawford is not far behind scoring 18.7 ppg.
Crawford represents The American's third-most efficient three-point shooter, making 40.4% of her shots from beyond the arc, and 2.71 triples a game sit second. She also paces the Golden Hurricane with 64 assists and 28 steals tie Mady Cartwright for the most on the squad. Defensively, Poindexter logs 32 blocks and Hadley Periman 31, while Periman snags 6.9 rpg.
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