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Tulsa Begins Play in the American Athletic Conference Tournament on Friday
3/11/2020 1:30:00 PM | Men's Basketball
| GAME #32: #3 TULSA GOLDEN HURRICANE (21-10, 13-5) vs. #6 Memphis Tigers (20-10, 9-8) or #11 ECU Pirates (11-19, 5-12) | |
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| Date/Time: | Friday • March 13, 2020 • 8:30 p.m. (CT) |
| Site: |
Dickies Arena (12,505) • Fort Worth, Texas |
| Coaches: | Tulsa – Frank Haith (Elon '88), 6th year Memphis – Penny Hardaway (Memphis '03), 2nd year ECU - Joe Dooley (George Washington '88) 6th year |
| TV: | ESPNU | Kevin Brown (pxp) & Mark Wise (analyst) |
| Radio: | Big Country 99.5 FM (Bruce Howard & J.R. Rollo) |
| Live Stats: | Live Stats |
| Twitter: | @TUMBasketball | @TulsaHurricane |
| Instagram: | TulsaMBasketball |
| Game Notes: | Tulsa |
FASTBREAK POINTS
• Tulsa is in its 109th season of basketball and 6th season in the American Athletic Conference.
• Tulsa is in its 6th year in the American Athletic Conference with the 3rd most conference wins among the league members in that time span with 67 victories, behind only Cincinnati and Houston.
• The 21 wins for Tulsa is the most since posting a 23-11 record in 2014-15.
• Coach Haith captured his 100th win as Tulsa's head coach with the Hurricane's 78-47 victory on Wednesday, Nov. 27 against South Carolina State … he coached his 500th career game vs. SE Louisiana earlier this year on Nov. 20.
• Tulsa averages 67.8 points this year, while Tulsa's returners average 46.9 points and the newcomers 20.9 points ... Tulsa has held opposing teams to 63.5 points a game.
• Seven Tulsa players average over 20 minutes of playing time led by Brandon Rachal's 29.3 minutes per game.
AMERICAN ATHLETIC CONFERENCE CHAMPIONS
• Tulsa shared the American Athletic Conference regular season title with Cincinnati and Houston.
• Tulsa has now won or shared 11 league titles in school history with 10 coming in the last 36 seasons.
• This is the first AAC title for Tulsa in its 6 years as a league member …Tulsa has placed among the top-4 in the AAC regular season in 4 seasons, including 2nd in 2014-15, 3rd in 2015-16 and 4th place in 2017-18.
• Tulsa has now won a league championship in 4 leagues – Missouri Valley (6), Western Athletic (3), Conference USA (1) and the American Athletic (1).
20+ WINS
• Tulsa has turned in its 3rd 20+ win season in Frank Haith's 6 years at the helm of the basketball program.
• In school history, the 21 wins gives Tulsa 24 seasons of 20+ wins, with 23 of those coming in the last 39 seasons.
• Before NCAA or NIT play began in previous years, Tulsa had won 20+ games 23 times and had received an invitation to the NCAA or NIT Championships in all but two years, including in 2006-07 with a 20-11 record and in 2007-08 when Tulsa finished at 25-14 with 5 of those wins coming en route to winning the CBI Championship.
HAITH NAMED AAC COACH OF THE YEAR, JOINING SOME BIG NAMES IN TULSA HISTORY
• Frank Haith earned the Coach of the Year award in the American Athletic Conference this season after taking his team from a preseason coaches' poll placing of 10th to sharing the AAC title with a 13-5 league record.
• It is the second conference that Haith has won the coach of the year award as he was named the 2012 AP Big XII Coach of the Year.
• It marked the 11th time that a Tulsa coach has earned Conference Coach of the Year accolades, becoming the 9th coach to do so.
• Haith has joined some pretty big names of past Tulsa coaches to win the yearly honor.
• Other winners were: Clarence Iba (1955), Joe Swank (1967), Ken Hayes (1973), Nolan Richardson, 1981, '85), J.D. Barnett (1987) and Tubby Smith (1993-94) as MVC Coach of the Year winners … Bill Self (2000) was the WAC Coach of the Year … Danny Manning won the Conference USA Coach of the Year award (2014).
• Manning was the last Tulsa coach to win coach of the year honors with his Conference USA award in 2014.
IGBANU NAMED SIXTH MAN OF THE YEAR IN THE AMERICAN
• Martins Igbanu began coming off the bench in the AAC opener against Temple and since that game, when he totaled 14 points and 6 rebounds, he played the role of Tulsa's sixth man in the 17 games to follow.
• In the last 18 games, he has had 13 games scoring in double-digits, including 6 contests with 20 or more points … he has had 3 double-doubles and 4 double-figure rebounding games.
• Igbanu has averaged 16.5 points, 5.8 rebounds, 61-percent shooting from the field and 70-percent from the free throw line off the bench in the last 18 games.
• He is the third Tulsa player to earn the Sixth Man of the Year award in school history … Anthony Price (2006) and Steven Idlet (2010) each won the award in Conference USA.
IGBANU, RACHAL NAMED ALL-CONFERENCE
• Two Tulsa players earned all-conference accolades in the American Athletic Conference this year.
• Martins Igbanu was a first-team selection and Brandon Rachal earned third-team honors as the AAC postseason awards were announced.
• Igbanu led Tulsa in scoring with a 13.6 average, while also leading the team in FG percentage at .561 … Igbanu grabbed 5.0 rebounds to rank third on the team.
• Rachal was second in scoring with a 12.1 average, while leading Tulsa in rebounds at an average of 5.8 per game and steals at 1.5 per game.
TULSA IN CONFERENCE TOURNAMENTS
• Tulsa will be playing in its 43rd overall conference tournament in its 4th league.
• Tulsa won tournament titles in its final season (1996) as a member of the Missouri Valley Conference and its final season (2014) as a member of Conference USA.
• Tulsa has played 36 different teams in its 4 leagues during conference tournament play.
Tournament Appearances: 42 • Tournament Record: 52-36 (.590) • Tournament Titles: 6 •
Championship Game Appearances: 16 • First Round Record: 5-10 • Quarterfinal Round: 25-6 • Semifinal Round: 16-10 • Championship Round: 6-10
• Tulsa has an overall 52-36 record in conference tournament games, combining the record 4 conferences ––the Missouri Valley Conference, Western Athletic Conference, Conference USA and the American Athletic Conference.
• This is the 43rd conference tournament appearance for Tulsa.
• The Hurricane has a .590 winning percentage for all conference tournament games.
• Tulsa has an overall 6-10 record in conference tournament championship games.
• The first conference tournament that Tulsa was a part of came at the 1977 Missouri Valley Conference tournament.
• Tulsa has advanced to a conference tournament semifinal game 26 times previously (13 in MVC, 6 in WAC, 6 in C-USA, 1 in AAC) and has posted a 16-10 mark in those games.
