Men's Basketball Travels to Wichita State

Saturday, February 9

Wichita, Kan.

7 PM

Tulane University

Wichita State

Feb 8, 2019 | Men's Basketball

GAME 22: TULANE Green Wave (4-17, 0-9 AAC) at WICHITA STATE Shockers (11-11, 4-6 AAC)
When:	Saturday, February 9, 2019 \| 7 p.m. (CT)
Where:	Wichita, Kansas \| Charles Kock Arena
Watch:	ESPNU \| WatchESPN app
Commentators:	Kevin Brown (PxP) & Mark Wise (Color)
Radio:	1280 AM New Orleans \| Listen Online
Radio Talent:	Todd Graffagnini (Play-By-Play)
Live Scoring:	Statbroadcast
Notes:	Tulane \| Wichita State \| American Athletic Conference
Tickets:	Purchase Online
Social Media:	@GreenWaveMBB \| #RollWave

NEW ORLEANS - The Tulane men's basketball team makes its second all-time trip to Wichita State for an American Athletic Conference matchup on Saturday, February 9. Tipoff is set for 7 p.m., at Charles Koch Arena.

The game will be televised nationally on ESPNU and available on the WatchESPN app. Kevin Brown will deliver play-by-play of the action, while Mark Wise provides color commentary.

STARTING FIVE
1. Following a seven-day hiatus between games, Tulane looks for its first conference win of the season Saturday night in the first of two meetings against Wichita State this season.
2. Last time out, the Green Wave dropped a 75-67 home contest against Temple on Saturday, February 2, as Caleb Daniels scored 21 points with a career-high 11 rebounds for his second double-double of the season to go with a personal-best six assists and just one turnover. Samir Sehic finished with 15 points and Jordan Cornish added 11 more.
3. Tulane and Wichita meet for just the second time in history, as the 13th-ranked Shockers held on for a 93-86 home win in the lone regular-season meeting last February. The Green Wave scored 55 second-half points and shot 62 percent from the field in the final 20 minutes. Melvin Frazier Jr. led five Tulane players in double-figures and registered a double-double comprising 22 points and 11 rebounds with all of his scoring coming in the second half.
4. Freshman guard Moses Wood has found his rhythm during the last five contests, shooting an impressive 70 percent (14-for-20) from the field, while averaging 7.4 points, 3.8 rebounds and 1.4 steals in 23.4 minutes per game off the bench. He has also scored in double-figures in two of the last three games.
5. Senior forward Blake Paul has emerged in the last six games, averaging 9.8 points and 7.8 rebounds while making 62 percent (26-for-42) 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.
• 81 - Redshirt senior guard Jordan Cornish has scored 919 points in three plus seasons (two at UNLV, second at Tulane) and needs just 81 more to eclipse 1,000 for his career.

SCOUTING WICHITA STATE
• The Shockers (11-11, 4-6 AAC) enter Saturday's matchup riding a three-game winning streak after securing a 65-49 road win at East Carolina on Wednesday night.
• Wichita State is 8-3 overall and 3-2 in conference play on its home court this season.
• Senior forward Markis McDuffie is currently tied for the league lead in points per game (18.6), stands sixth in free throw percentage (.827) and ranks seventh in 3-pointers made per game (2.4). Junior forward Jaime Echenique is fourth in blocks per game (1.5) and seventh in field goal percentage (.524).
• As a team, the Shockers are last in The American in field goal percentage (.412), 11th in 3-point field goal percentage (.310) and steals per game (4.9), but rank fourth in offensive rebounds per game (12.5).

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 (6) - vs. Coastal Carolina, South Dakota State, South Alabama, Texas Southern, UConn, Temple
• 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) 90

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.

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