Tulsa Falls to Tulane 94-87 in OT

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Tulsa Falls to Tulane 94-87 in OT

1/14/2024 5:48:00 PM | Men's Basketball

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TULSA, Okla. –– Tulane pulled out a 94-87 overtime win over Golden Hurricane inside the Donald W. Reynolds Center Sunday afternoon on a snowy and single-digit temperature day in Tulsa.

PJ Haggerty led four Tulsa players in double-figures with 25 points, followed by 17 from Cobe Williams 13, from Matt Reed and 11 from Isaiah Barnes. In addition to his career-high 13 points the freshman Reed also grabbed 16 rebounds, the second-most for a Tulsa player in Reynolds Center history.

The Reynolds Center single-game rebounding record for a Tulsa player is 17 by Michael Ruffin on Feb. 13, 1999, against Air Force.

Tulane's veteran team was led by Kevin Cross' 28 points and nine rebounds, while fellow senior Jaylen Forbes added 20 points.

Tulsa fell to 9-7 on the year and 0-4 in AAC play, while the Green Wave improved to 11-5 and 2-2 in league action

"I thought our guys played really good basketball going into halftime," said Tulsa Head Coach Eric Konkol. "Down the stretch we had opportunities. We just weren't able to make enough plays at the end of regulation and overtime. This is a tough one, and we've got to be able to look at it and analyze a number of different things and then bounce back quickly. We have another game coming up here soon. But this is certainly a tough one here at home."

The first 14 minutes of the first half neither team had larger than a four-point lead until the Hurricane used a 17-7 run in the final six minutes to close out the first 20 minutes with a 39-30 halftime lead.

Tulsa built a 14-point second-half lead, 59-45, at the 13:36 mark before the Green Wave outscored the Hurricane 17-3 over the next four-plus minutes to tie the game at 62 with 8:42 left on the game clock. Tulane went up by two at 64-62 before Tulsa retook the lead and, other than four more ties, led for the remainder of the half. Tulane's Kevin Cross tied the game for a fifth time at 78-78 at the 0:09 mark, thus sending the game into overtime.

Tulane scored the first basket in overtime and held the lead for the entirety of the extra session, finishing with the seven-point win.

The Green Wave finished the game shooting 46 percent from the field to Tulsa's 41 percent and 36-to-33 percent from three-point range. Tulsa held the rebounding advantage 44-41, but the Green Wave had a 24-17 edge in free throws made, as Tulane made 24-of-29 and Tulsa 17-of-26 from the charity stripe.

HOW IT HAPPENED
IN THE FIRST HALF . . .
Tulsa jumped out to a 5-1 lead to start the game, then Tulane scored the next six points for a 7-5 lead in the first two minutes.

The first 14:18 of the game saw six lead changes and five ties, as the largest lead in that span was four points by each team.

Matt Reed's traditional three-point tied the score at 30-30 with 5:42 remaining for the fifth tie of the contest.

The Hurricane followed that with treys from Carlous Williams and two from Reed for a 12-0 run and a 39-30 lead at the 4:17 mark.

The half ended with Tulsa leading 44-37, outscoring the Green Wave 17-7 to close out the half.

Reed led the first-half scoring for Tulsa with 9 points followed with 8 each from Carlous Williams, PJ Haggerty and Isaiah Barnes.

Tulsa connected on 52% from the field and 54% from three-point range in the first 20 minutes, while Tulane hit 45% overall and 45.5% from behind the arc.

IN THE SECOND HALF . . .
Jared Garcia scored Tulsa's first five points of the second half to give Tulsa its first double-digit lead at 49-39 at the 16:49 mark.

Five straight points by Cobe Williams gave the Hurricane its largest lead at 14 points, 59-45 with 13:23 on the game clock.

Tulane trimmed that lead to five points with a 9-0 run over the next 2:26 to make the score 59-54.

After Cobe Williams trey put Tulsa's lead back to eight points at 62-54, Tulane scored the next eight points to tie the game at 62 with 8:42 remaining on the game clock.

Tulane took its first lead of the second half at 64-62 at the 8:17 mark on a Collin Holloway layup.

The Green Wave outscored the Hurricane 27-18 from the start of the second half to the eight-minute mark for its two-point lead, 64-62.

In the final eight minutes, the game was either tied or Tulsa led by as many as three points.

Haggerty made 1-of-2 free throws with 0:14 remaining in the game before Tulane's Kevin Cross tied the game 78-78 at the 0:09 mark.

A missed Tulsa three-pointer forced the game into overtime.

IN OVERTIME . . .
Tulane scored the first four points to make the score 82-78 and kept the lead for the entire OT period.

Tulsa got as close as two points at the 1:27 mark on a Haggerty layup.

GAME NOTES
• Tulsa fell to 9-7 on the season overall and 0-4 in AAC games.
• Tulsa is now 0-2 in overtime games this season … the previous game was at Little Rock.
• Freshman PJ Haggerty had his 15th double-figure scoring game of the season with 25 points.
• It was Haggerty's eighth game this season with 20+ points and 5^th time in the last six games.
• Freshman Matt Reed had his first career double-double with a career-high 13 points and 16 rebounds.
• The 13 points was his third double-figure scoring game of the season and second straight game.
• Reed's 16 rebounds was one shy of Tulsa's Reynolds Center record of 17 by Michael Ruffin vs. Air Force on Feb. 13, 1999 … it was also the most rebounds since Steven's 16 against Ohio on Dec. 6, 2009.
• Reed's three 3-pointers was also a career-high.
• Cobe Williams had his 12^th double-digit scoring game of the season and the 65^th of his career.
• Williams had his sixth straight game with multiple three-pointers made with two today.
• Sophomore Isaiah Barnes had his ninth double-digit scoring game of the season with 11 points.

Tulsa returns to the Reynolds Center Wednesday night for a 7 p.m. game against the UTSA Roadrunners. The game can be seen on ESPN+. All Tulsa basketball games can be heard on Big Country 9.5 FM Radio.