Men's Basketball Hosts Temple in White-Out Game

GAME 21: TULANE Green Wave (4-16, 0-8 AAC) vs. Temple Owls (15-6, 5-3 AAC)
When:	Saturday, February 2, 2019 \| 5 p.m. (CT)
Where:	New Orleans \| Avron B. Fogelman Arena in the Devlin Fieldhouse
Watch:	ESPN3 \| WatchESPN
Commentators:	Tim Grubbs (PxP) & Victor Howell (Color)
Radio:	1280 AM New Orleans \| Listen Online
Radio Talent:	Todd Graffagnini (Play-By-Play)
Live Scoring:	Statbroadcast
Notes:	Tulane \| Temple \| American Athletic Conference
Tickets:	Purchase Online
Social Media:	@GreenWaveMBB \| #RollWave

NEW ORLEANS - The Tulane men's basketball team begins the month of February when it hosts Temple in its annual white-out game on Saturday. Tipoff is scheduled for 5 p.m., at Avron B. Fogelman Arena in the Devlin Fieldhouse.

The game will be broadcast on the WatchESPN app, as Tim Grubbs delivers play-by-play commentary and Victor Howell provides color analysis.

STARTING FIVE
1. Tulane (4-16, 0-8 AAC) looks for its first American Athletic Conference win of the season Saturday when Temple (15-6, 5-3 AAC) rolls into town on a short turnaround after a seven-point road loss at Houston Thursday night.
2. Last time out, the Green Wave were unable to hold onto a four-point halftime lead and dropped a tough, 66-65 contest at East Carolina on Thursday evening. Caleb Daniels led four Tulane scorers in double-figures with 17 points, while Kevin Zhang tallied 12 of his 14 points in the first half. Jordan Cornish contributed 10 points, while Moses Wood chipped in 10 points on 4-for-4 shooting and eight boards off the bench.
3. Tulane and Temple meet for the 13th time in history, as the Owls own a 9-3 lead in the all-time series. The Green Wave split the regular season series by scoring an 85-75 road win in Philadelphia last season, but dropped an 83-76 decision at home. Temple also notched an 82-77 win over the Wave in the first round of the American Athletic Conference Championships in Orlando, Fla.
4. Freshman guard Moses Wood has found his stroke over the last five contests, shooting an impressive 85.7 percent (12-for-14) from the field, while averaging 6.2 points, 3.4 rebounds and 1.0 steals in just 20.8 minutes per game off the bench. He has also scored in double-figures in back-to-back games.
5. Senior forward Blake Paul has emerged in the last five games, averaging 10.6 points and 8.2 rebounds while making 62.2 percent of his shots from the floor in those contests. He has three double-figure scoring performances, two double-digit rebounding games and one double-double during the span.

BY THE NUMBERS
• 7 – Redshirt junior forward Samir Sehic has posted seven double-doubles this season and has nine in his career after compiling two last year.
• 8 – Tulane has used eight different starting lineups in its first 20 games in 2018-19. The Green Wave have deployed a unique starting five in four of their last six contests. Samir Sehic is the only Tulane player to start every game this season.
• 92 - Redshirt senior guard Jordan Cornish has scored 908 points in three plus seasons (two at UNLV, second at Tulane) and needs just 92 more to eclipse 1,000 for his career.

SCOUTING TEMPLE
• The Owls enter Saturday's game coming off back-to-back conference losses to Houston and Cincinnati, while dropping three of their last four games.
• Temple is led by the top scoring tandem in The American in Shizz Alston Jr. (17.9 ppg) and Quinton Rose (17.5 ppg), who rank sixth and seventh, respectively.
• Alston has scored 20 or more points eight times this season and has earned two co-AAC Player of the Week awards.
• The Owls rank first in the conference in free throw percentage (.734) and second in steals per game (8.9) and turnover margin (+3.6).

20-POINT PERFORMANCES
• Tulane has had five different players score at least 20 points in a game this season, the most among any American Athletic Conference program:
• Caleb Daniels (5) - vs. Coastal Carolina, South Dakota State, South Alabama, Texas Southern, UConn
• Kevin Zhang (3) - vs. Florida State, Georgia State, Memphis (1/13)
• Samir Sehic (2) - vs. Texas Southern, SMU (1/4)
• Jordan Cornish (1) - vs. UL Lafayette
• Shakwon Barrett (1) - vs. UT-Martin

CLEANING UP IN THE CLASSROOM
• The Green Wave compiled a 3.14 team GPA for the 2018 Fall semester, the highest recorded in program history.
• Buay Koka posted a perfect 4.0 GPA
• Nine of 14 players had at least a 3.0 GPA
• 10/14 players have a cumulate GPA of at least 3.0
• All five international players had at least a 3.0
• Tulane was named the recipient of the American Athletic Conference's Team Academic Excellence Award for the 2017-18 season, an honor given annually to one of the conference's 12 institutions sponsoring men's basketball that achieves the highest cumulative grade point average.

DUNLEAVYS LONE FATHER-SON HEAD-COACHING DUO
• In his third season as head coach, Mike Dunleavy Sr., is the only head coach with a son who is also a head coach at the NCAA Division I level.
• His son, Baker Dunleavy, is in his second season at the helm of Quinnipiac's program.

CONGRATS GRAD!
• Redshirt junior forward Samir Sehic earned his bachelor's degree in finance in May of 2018 with two years of eligibility remaining. He is currently pursuing his MBA at Tulane.

PAUL CLIMBING ALL-TIME BLOCKS LIST
• Senior forward Blake Paul is on the verge of becoming one of the 10 greatest shot blockers in program history:
1.         John Williams (1981-85)           192
2.         Lawrence Nelson (1994-98)      181
3.         Quincy Davis (2002-06)             165
4.         Jerald Honeycutt (1993-97)       163
5.         David Gomez (2004-08)            145
6.         Donnie Stith (2004-08)              142
7.         Robinson Louisme (2004-09)     117
8.         Linton Johnson (1998-2002)     99
9.         Anthony Reed (1989-93)           95
10.       Paul Thompson (1979-83)         92
11.        Blake Paul (2015-19)            88

ZHANG'S ARRIVAL MARKS RARE FOREIGN IMPORT
NCAA Division I men's basketball players hailing from China are rare, as freshman swingman Kevin Zhang is one of just five players nationally who can stake that claim along with CS Fullerton sophomore Johnny Wang, CS Northridge freshman Michael Ou, Cal-Berkley freshman James Zhao and UPenn frosh Michael Wang.

STRENGTH WITHIN THE SCHEDULE
• Tulane will play a minimum of 11 regular-season games against nine teams that earned postseason bids in 2018, including seven opponents that played in the NCAA Tournament (Cincinnati, Florida State, Georgia State, Houston, South Dakota State, Texas Southern and Wichita State). Temple and Southeastern Louisiana made NIT appearances.
• The Green Wave will host 15 home games and will head out to compete in five neutral-site contests. The Wave will play just one true road tilt in the non-conference slate at South Alabama on Dec. 8.

OLDEST ARENAS
• Tulane's home arena, Avron B. Fogelman Arena in the Devlin Fieldhouse, is one of the oldest active arenas in college basketball:

1. Matthews Arena – Northeastern – April 16, 1910
2. Rose Hill Gym – Fordham – Jan. 16, 1925
3. Lavietes Pavilion – Harvard - 1926
4. The Palestra – Penn – Jan. 1, 1927
5. Edmundson Pavilion – Washington – Dec. 27, 1927
6. Williams Arena – Minnesota – Feb. 4, 1928
7. Hinkle Fieldhouse – Butler – March 7, 1928
8. Payne Whitney Gym – Yale – Dec. 10, 1932
9. Fogelman in Devlin – Tulane – Dec. 15, 1933
10. Haas Pavilion – California – Jan. 13, 1933

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