TULSA (Interstat) — Kayanna Cox scored 23 points and blocked four shots in 18 minutes, and Incarnate Word used a late fourth-quarter surge to defeat Tulsa 63-57 on Tuesday at Donald Reynolds Center. The Cardinals improved to 1-0. The Golden Hurricane dropped to 0-1 in front of an announced attendance of 1,191.

Incarnate Word scored 63 points from 73 possessions for an offensive rating of 86.1. Tulsa scored 57 points from 71 possessions and an offensive rating of 80.5. The Cardinals shot 21 of 47 from the floor, 2 of 14 from 3-point range and 19 of 34 from the free-throw line. Tulsa shot 24 of 56 from the floor, 3 of 20 from beyond the arc and 6 of 8 from the free-throw line. Incarnate Word finished with five offensive rebounds, five assists, four blocks and 15 turnovers. Tulsa had three offensive rebounds, nine assists, four blocks and 14 turnovers. Incarnate Word held a 19-6 advantage in made free throws.

Alexa Kinas, a 5-foot-8 guard from Kaukauna, Wis., led Tulsa with 16 points, nine rebounds and one assist in 36 minutes. Cox, Incarnate Word’s top star and a 5-foot-10 guard from Tenaha High School, finished with 23 points, three rebounds and four blocks in 18 minutes. Mady Cartwright, a 5-foot-10 guard from Greenwood, added nine points, five rebounds and four assists in 33 minutes for the Golden Hurricane. A’Maya Holton, a 6-foot forward from East Central High School, had 11 points and four rebounds in 36 minutes for the Cardinals. Dora Toman, a 6-foot guard from Soproni Széchenyi István Gimnázium, scored 14 points with three rebounds and two assists in 25 minutes. N’Kiyah Burge, a 5-foot-11 forward from Fredrick A. Douglass High School, recorded nine points and nine rebounds in 24 minutes. Alisha Peavy, a 6-foot-2 guard from Pieper, contributed eight points, one rebound and two blocks in 25 minutes. Jaelynn Scott, a 6-foot guard from Wachusett Regional, scored six points and grabbed two rebounds in 12 minutes. Morgan Borgstadt, a 6-foot guard from Verdigris High School, had 10 points and four rebounds in 33 minutes. Gwendlyn McGrew, a 5-foot-10 guard from Pasadena Memorial High School, finished with two points, seven rebounds and two assists in 33 minutes.

Incarnate Word opened with a 7-0 run as Morgan Borgstadt converted a driving layup and free throw, and Zaviyana Madison hit a jumper. Tulsa answered and tied the game at 9 when Dora Toman made a 3-pointer with 3:59 left in the first quarter. Burge made a layup and a stepback jumper, and her 3-pointer with 2:32 remaining gave Incarnate Word a 16-12 lead. Kinas scored on a driving layup, Holton made a free throw and Toman added a layup as Tulsa cut the margin to 17-16. Madison’s layup with 2.8 seconds left in the opening period gave Incarnate Word a 19-16 lead after one quarter.

Holton made a driving layup early in the second quarter before Borgstadt made one of two free throws. Jaelynn Scott and Alisha Peavy answered with consecutive layups for Tulsa, and Holton added another layup with 5:55 left before halftime. Toman and Scott made layups to tie the game at 24. Madison Williams hit a jumper for Incarnate Word, Peavy converted a driving layup, and Kinas scored on a driving layup to give Tulsa a 28-26 lead. Borgstadt made a layup with 51.1 seconds remaining to tie the score at 28, and Peavy’s layup with 25 seconds left gave Tulsa a 30-28 halftime lead.

Holton opened the third quarter with a layup to tie the game at 30. Peavy answered with a driving layup, and Borgstadt made two free throws to tie it at 32. Kinas made one of two free throws, Borgstadt made two more free throws, and Cartwright made two free throws to give Tulsa a 35-34 lead. Kinas scored on a turnaround jumper and added two more layups during a stretch that helped Tulsa build a 41-36 lead. Burge and Cox made layups for Incarnate Word, Holton made one of two free throws, and Kinas made a free throw. Cox made two free throws, and Scott’s layup with one second left in the third gave Tulsa a 44-40 lead entering the fourth.

Kinas made a jumper early in the fourth, and Madison answered with a turnaround jumper. Laura Di Stefano made a layup for Tulsa, then Cox made two free throws and a driving layup to pull Incarnate Word within 48-46. Haven Fisher made a layup for Tulsa, Cox answered with another driving layup, and Cartwright made a layup to give Tulsa a 52-48 lead. Cox made a pull-up jumper and then hit a 3-pointer off a turnover to give Incarnate Word a 53-52 lead with 4:08 remaining.

Cartwright answered with a 3-pointer to put Tulsa back ahead 55-52, and Toman’s layup with 2:05 left made it 57-54. Holton made one free throw to bring Incarnate Word within two, and Cox tied the game at 57 with a driving layup with 1:10 remaining. Cox then hit a jumper with 30.6 seconds left to give the Cardinals the lead for good. She added free throws with 15.4 seconds remaining, and McGrew made two free throws with 11.1 seconds left to complete the scoring. Cox scored 23 points in only 18 minutes, and Incarnate Word erased Tulsa’s four-point lead after three quarters.

Incarnate Word’s next 10 opponents are UTEP, Texas-San Antonio, North Texas, Texas State, Texas A&M, Texas A&M-Kingsville, Our Lady of the Lake, McNeese State, Southeastern Louisiana and New Orleans. Tulsa’s next 10 opponents are Rogers State, Oklahoma State, Texas Southern, New Orleans, Stephen F. Austin, Central Michigan, Bowling Green, Oklahoma Baptist, Oral Roberts and SMU.

Interstat’s game simulator had projected a final score of Tulsa 67, Incarnate Word 61. Interstat’s ELO system had projected Tulsa with a 91.8 percent probability to win.