Men's Basketball Travels to Tulsa for Matchup on ESPNU

GAME 27: TULANE Green Wave (4-22, 0-14 AAC) at TULSA Golden Hurricane (16-12, 6-8 AAC)
When:	Thursday, February 28, 2019 \| 8 p.m. (CT)
Where:	Tulsa, Okla. \| Reynolds Center
Watch:	ESPNU \| WatchESPN app
Commentators:	Ted Emrich (PxP) & Sean Harrington (Color)
Radio:	1280 AM New Orleans \| Listen Online
Radio Talent:	Todd Graffagnini (Play-By-Play)
Live Scoring:	Statbroadcast
Notes:	Tulane \| Tulsa \| American Athletic Conference
Social Media:	@GreenWaveMBB \| #RollWave

NEW ORLEANS - The Tulane men's basketball team begins its final road trip of the season when it heads to Tulsa for its next conference tilt on Thursday, February 28. Tipoff is set for 8 p.m., at the Reynolds Center.

The game will be televised nationally on ESPNU and available on the WatchESPN app. Ted Emrich will deliver play-by-play of the action, while Sean Harrington provides color commentary.

STARTING FIVE
    1. Tulane looks to get its first American Athletic Conference win of the year and force a regular-season series split at Tulsa, as the teams meet for the second time in two weeks on Thursday night.
    2. Last time out, Tulane dropped a tough, 85-81 home contest to East Carolina on Saturday evening. The Green Wave scored a season-high 53 first-half points and led by seven at the break, before finishing the night with a season-best 13 made 3-pointers and nine blocks. Connor Crabtree scored a personal-best 23 points and Samir Sehic chipped in 21 more and made five treys, as Moses Wood compiled his first-career double-double with 15 points and 12 rebounds.
    3. In the first meeting this season between Tulane and Tulsa on Feb. 14 in New Orleans, Caleb Daniels led three Green Wave players in double-figures with 13 points, along with Jordan Cornish's 12 points and eight rebounds, as Connor Crabtree added 11 more. The Golden Hurricane owned a 32-16 scoring advantage in the paint and owned a 46-36 margin on the glass to break away with an 80-57 victory.
    4. In conference play, Moses Wood has been perhaps the Tulane's top contributor off the bench, shooting 44 percent overall, 41 percent from 3-point range and 92 percent at the free throw line in 21.6 minutes per game. He is also second on the team in blocks (11) and steals (10) during the 14-game span.
    5. Connor Crabtree has found his comfort zone in the last five contests, recording three double-digit scoring performances while averaging 12.2 points per game. He is shooting 49 percent from the floor (18-for-37), 50 percent beyond the 3-point arc (9-for-18) and 80 percent at the foul line (16-for-20).

BY THE NUMBERS
• 8 – Redshirt junior forward Samir Sehic has posted eight double-doubles this season and has 10 in his career after compiling two last year.
• 52 –Redshirt senior guard Jordan Cornish has scored 948 points in three plus seasons (two at UNLV, second at Tulane) and needs just 52 more to eclipse 1,000 for his career.
• 169 - Tulane has made at least one 3-point field goal in 169 consecutive games. The last time the Green Wave failed to do so came on Jan. 16, 2014 at home against Louisiana Tech when they went 0-for-14 from outside.

SCOUTING TULSA
• The Golden Hurricane (16-12, 6-8 AAC) enter Thursday's contest coming off back-to-back losses at home to Wichita State and at Temple.
• Tulsa ranks third in The American in field goal percentage (.450) and fourth in field goal percentage defense (.408).
• Tulsa is led by DaQuan Jeffries who ranks first on the team in scoring at 13.7 ppg and rebounding at 5.7 rpg. He has led the team in scoring 11 times.
• Forward Martins Igbanu is shooting 61.5 percent from the field and averages 12.3 points and 5.5 rebounds per game this season.
• Senior guard Sterling Taplin also averaged double-figures with 10 ppg and ranks seventh in The American at 4.2 assists per game.

MARDI GRAS UNIFORMS
• Tulane will wear Mardi Gras-inspired uniforms to celebrate Carnival season for the second year in a row for six games ahead of Fat Tuesday on March 5.
• The Green Wave donned the Nike threads for the first time at home against Tulsa on February 14 and will again for the last time at Temple on March 3.

PAUL CLIMBING ALL-TIME BLOCKS LIST
• Senior forward Blake Paul became one of the 10 greatest shot blockers in program history with one rejection at Memphis on February 20:

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.         Blake Paul (2015-19)       96
10.         Anthony Reed (1989-93)           95

20-POINT PERFORMANCES
• Tulane has had six different players score at least 20 points in a game this season, the most among any American Athletic Conference program:
• Caleb Daniels (7) - vs. Coastal Carolina, South Dakota State, at South Alabama, Texas Southern, at UConn, Temple, at Memphis
• 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
• Connor Crabtree (1) - vs. East Carolina

USA BASKETBALL STARDOM
• Tulane alum Cameron Reynolds recently completed his second tour with USA Basketball, competing in a pair of World Cup qualifying games February 22 and 25 in Greensboro, N.C., under head coach Jeff Van Gundy.
• In the first game against Panama, Reynolds set USA Men's World Cup Qualifying Team single-game records with 26 points and six 3-pointers made, leading the Red, White and Blue to 111-80 win.

REYNOLDS GETS FIRST NBA CONTRACT
• After going undrafted in 2018, Cameron Reynolds signed his first NBA deal, reaching a 10-day contract agreement with the Minnesota Timberwolves on February 25.
• Reynolds has spent his first season as a professional with the Sacramento Kings' G-League affiliate in Stockton. There, he has compiled some impressive numbers in 33 games, making nine starts while averaging 16.0 points, 4.2 rebounds per game.

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.

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.

FOLLOW ON SOCIAL MEDIA
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