Tulane Green Wave women's hoops had their first back-to-back series against the same opponent since 2021, and swept the Memphis Tigers Thursday night.
The Tulane Green Wave women’s basketball team got right in Memphis, snapping a six-game losing streak with a win over the Tigers on Tuesday night. They then headed back to Devlin Fieldhouse to host Memphis on Thursday night in the Green Wave’s first back-to-back facing the same opponent since the Temple Owls in 2021, who Tulane swept. History repeated itself when the Green Wave bested the Tigers 69-54 at home to improve to 10-16 (5-9 American). Memphis is now 8-18 (2-11 American).
It was an exciting victory highlighted by freshman Shiloh Kimpson, who started in place of Kendall Sneed with the guard going down with an injury in Tuesday’s win. She delivered a near triple-double with 12 points, six rebounds, and 10 assists – her first double-double coming in her first career start. The rookie hit career highs in all three stats in her electric debut. Kimpson was second in scoring to leading freshman Mecailin Marshall, with the reigning American Freshman of the Week scoring 15 points on the night.
CC Mays and Amira Mabry each delivered 11 points. Mays recording four steals, three rebounds, and two assists, and Mabry have five boards and two steals. With Mabry’s 11 points, she now moves into No. 29 on Tulane’s all-time scoring list with her 1,041-career tally. Dyllan Hanna led the team with 12 rebounds, nearly hitting her career high of 13. The only block of the night came from Mabry, who was the only player besides Mays to have multiple steals on the night.
It was an impressive show of grit by the short-staffed squad who were only able to have nine players dress for the game. The only players to start in all games this season heading into Thursday were Sneed and Mabry, with Mabry now being that sole player. It made Kimpson’s performance in her first career start that much more impressive when down so many key pieces.
The Green Wave got out to a hot start, which ultimately set the tone and put Memphis in a deficit they couldn’t climb out of with Tulane leading 39-20 at half. They led by as many as twenty points in the 2nd quarter while shooting 50 percent from the field while limiting the Tigers to 28 percent, and 0-of-6 from the three-point range. The Green Wave were 3-of-7. They also forced eight turnovers in the first half alone, which allowed them to keep dominating and securing a victory that felt more dominant than the final score.