The Tulane Green Wave women's basketball team represents
Tulane University in
NCAA Division I college baseball. The team competes in the
American Athletic Conference. They play home games on campus in
Devlin Fieldhouse, the 9th-oldest active basketball venue in the nation.
The team's last appearance in the
NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament was in
2015
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History
Tulane's women's basketball program has found continuous success under
Lisa Stockton
Lisa Dawn Stockton (born April 1, 1964) is the current women's basketball head coach at Tulane University, born in Greensboro, North Carolina. She was named the Green Wave's 6th head basketball coach in 1994. As the winningest coach in Conferen ...
, who began coaching at Tulane in 1995. That year, Stockton led the team to its first
NCAA Tournament appearance and was named Metro Conference Coach of the Year. That first appearance began a string of 9 consecutive NCAA Tournament berths. The team earned regular-season C-USA championships 4 times, the last in the 2009–10 season, when they finished with a 23–6 record (14–2 in C-USA). In addition, the program won the C-USA tournament 5 times: 1996–97, 1998–99, 1999–2000, 2000–01, and 2009–10. Lisa Stockton was twice named C-USA Coach of the Year (2006–07 and 2009–10).
2006–07 seniors Jami Montagnino (ranked 5th in NCAA Division I teams in free-throw percentage) and D'Aundra Henry proved essential to the team's success, both hitting 1,000 points for their careers in that season. That team was upset by
Rice 64–52 in the C-USA semifinals in
Tulsa, Oklahoma, and did not receive an at-large bid to the
2007 NCAA Tournament. With a final record of 25–6, they became the first team with 25 or more wins and six or fewer losses not to make it into the 64-team bracket, along with a 26–3 Montana team. Following a 62–53 win over UAB in the 2010 C-USA Tournament Final, the team advanced to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2003. During the 2011–12 season, senior Brett Benzio became the second female and third Tulane basketball player ever to reach 1,000 points and 1,000 rebounds in a season.
Team achievements
Yearly records
Postseason tournament appearances
Under Lisa Stockton, the Green Wave have appeared in 18 postseason tournaments.
NCAA Tournaments
Women's National Invitation Tournaments
Green Wave in professional basketball
The following Green Wave players have played in the
WNBA:
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Janell Burse
Janell Latrice Burse (born May 19, 1979) is a 6'5" women's basketball player who played center for the Seattle Storm of the WNBA.
After playing college ball at Tulane University, Burse was drafted in the second round (28th overall) by the Minn ...
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Grace Daley
Grace Elizabeth Daley (born June 26, 1978) is a retired African American professional women's basketball player, who is now an English teacher at Trinity Catholic High School in Ocala, Florida.
Daley was born in Miami, Florida, and attended T ...
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Barbara Farris
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Teana Miller
* Gwen Slaughter
References
External links
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{{Tulane University