TU Women's Basketball: Players to watch
BY MICHAEL PETERS World Sports Editor
Sunday, November 04, 2012
11/04/12 at 6:48 AM
Taleya Mayberry
The senior from Booker T. Washington has started all 81 games in her career. A preseason All-Conference USA selection, Mayberry averages 13.9 points per game. Mayberry ranks fifth in school history in points and is also in the top 10 in steals, assists and 3-point field goals made. She had 20 points in 25 minutes last week against Rogers State.
Tiffani Couisnard
The 6-1 senior from Houston is Tulsa's leading returning rebounder, averaging eight per game in 2011-12. Couisnard is one of only three forwards on the TU roster. She's a three-year letterwinner and is 10th in school history in blocks, with 45. She's played in 83 games, including 36 starts. She has five career double-doubles.
THREE STORYLINES
Can the momentum continue?
The Tulsa women’s basketball
team had an eight-game
turnaround from 2010-11,
winning 13 games in Matilda
Mossman’s first season as head
coach. The Golden Hurricane
erased the memories of that 1-15
Conference USA campaign by
going 8-8 last season, its best
C-USA mark since a 13-3 effort
in 2005-06. Tulsa tries to take
another step forward, led by
three returning starters.
Will “outside in” work for TU?
The Golden Hurricane will
be a little thin inside, with just
three forwards on its roster. TU
does have quality at the position,
as senior Tiffani Couisnard
and junior Loren McDaniel
combined for 12 points and
nearly 14 rebounds per game
last season. The Hurricane will
try to play up-tempo with its
guards, but the forwards must
avoid foul trouble.
Fantastic freshmen
TU has four new players
on its roster and all four could
make an immediate impact.
Freshmen guards Kelsee Grovey
of Shawnee and Ashley Clark
of Midwest City were in the
starting lineup for the exhibition
victory over Rogers State. Clark
had 12 points in 22 minutes.
TULSA WOMEN'S BASKETBALL 2012-13 SCHEDULE
Nov. 9: at Oral Roberts 7 p.m.
Nov. 12: vs. Arkansas-LR 7 p.m.
Nov. 15: vs. Arkansas 7 p.m.
Nov. 23: vs. Illinois * 3:45 p.m.
Nov. 24: vs. LMU/Iowa St. * TBA
Nov. 29: vs. Utah Valley 7 p.m.
Dec. 4: at Neb.-Omaha 7 p.m.
Dec. 8: vs. Colorado St. 2:30 p.m.
Dec. 15: at BYU 1 p.m.
Dec. 18: at Arkansas-LR 7 p.m.
Dec. 22: at Grambling St. 1 p.m.
Dec. 30: at S.F. Austin 2 p.m.
Jan. 3: vs. Langston 7 p.m.
Jan. 9: vs. UTEP 7 p.m.
Jan. 13: at Rice 2 p.m.
Jan. 17: vs. Marshall 7 p.m.
Jan. 20: at East Carolina Noon
Jan. 24: vs. UCF 7 p.m.
Jan. 27: vs. SMU 2 p.m.
Jan. 31: at UTEP 8 p.m.
Feb. 3: at Southern Miss 2 p.m.
Feb. 10: vs. Tulane 2 p.m.
Feb. 14: at Houston 7 p.m.
Feb. 17: vs. Rice 2 p.m.
Feb. 21: at SMU 7 p.m.
Feb. 24: at Tulane 2 p.m.
Feb. 28: vs. Memphis 7 p.m.
March 3: at UAB 2 p.m.
March 7: vs. Houston 7 p.m.
March 13-16: C-USA Tourn. Tulsa
* In Freeport, Bahamas
Exhibition
Vs. Mid-America Christian
2 p.m. Sunday
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TU's Taleya Mayberry is a preseason All-Conference USA selection. MICHAEL WYKE / Tulsa World
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