Men's Basketball Set for Final Road Game at Temple on ESPNU

GAME 28: TULANE Green Wave (4-23, 0-15 AAC) at TEMPLE Owls (20-8, 10-5 AAC)
When:	Sunday, March 3, 2019 \| 1 p.m. (CT)
Where:	Philadelphia \| Liacouras Center
Watch:	ESPNU \| WatchESPN app
Commentators:	Jon Meterparel (PxP) & Mark Adams (Color)
Radio:	1280 AM New Orleans \| Listen Online
Radio Talent:	Todd Graffagnini (Play-By-Play)
Live Scoring:	SIDEARM Stats
Notes:	Tulane \| Temple \| American Athletic Conference
Social Media:	@GreenWaveMBB \| #RollWave

NEW ORLEANS - The Tulane men's basketball team takes on Temple in its final American Athletic Conference regular-season road game on Sunday, March 3. Tipoff is scheduled for 1 p.m. (CT) at the Liacouras Center.

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

STARTING FIVE
1. In its final road game of the season, Tulane looks to secure its first American Athletic Conference win of the year and record its second victory in as many trips to Temple after earning an 85-75 win at the Liacouras Center to begin league play last season.
2. Last time out, the Green Wave jumped out to an early 19-3 lead and started 5-for-5 behind the 3-point arc to take a 35-34 edge into halftime, but came up short in a 72-64 road defeat at Tulsa on Thursday night. Caleb Daniels recorded his third double-double and eighth 20-point performance of the season with 20 points and 10 rebounds, while Samir Sehic chipped in 14 points and nine boards. Freshman Moses Wood made his first career start and handed out a season-high four assists.
3. In the first meeting in New Orleans on February 2, Tulane played even with Temple in the second half as both teams scored 36 points in the period, but Temple converted 21 of 26 (.808) free throws to escape with a 75-67 victory. Caleb Daniels tallied 21 points over 11 rebounds and six assists to lead the Green Wave, who also outrebounded the Owls, 43-37, on the night. Shizz Alston Jr. carried Temple with a game-high 29 points, making 14 of 15 free throw attempts.
4. In conference play, Moses Wood has been one of Tulane's top contributors, shooting 44 percent overall, 41 percent from 3-point range and 92 percent at the free throw line in 21.8 minutes per game. He is also second on the team in blocks (12) and steals (10) during the 15-game span.
5. Caleb Daniels has led Tulane in assists eight times this season and has three or more in a team-high 18 contests.

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.
• 44 –Redshirt senior guard Jordan Cornish has scored 956 points in three plus seasons (two at UNLV, second at Tulane) and needs just 44 more to eclipse 1,000 for his career.
• 170 - 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 TEMPLE
• The Owls (20-8, 10-5 AAC) enter Sunday's contest winners in three of their last four games, but are coming off an 81-73 road loss at Memphis on Tuesday night.
• Temple owns an 11-2 record on its home court this season, with just one of the defeats coming in conference play in a four-point setback against Cincinnati.
• The Owls currently rank fourth in the conference standings, one game ahead of fifth-place Memphis and a half game behind No. 3 seed UCF, which plays at No. 8/6 UCF on Saturday afternoon.
• Temple leads The American in free throw percentage (.725), steals per game (8.9), turnover margin (+3.7) and assist-to-turnover ration (1.3), but is last in field goal percentage defense (.448), rebounding margin (-2.6) and blocks per game (2.3).
• Shizz Alston Jr., is the conference's No. 2 scorer at 19.0 ppg, first in free throw percentage (.901) and minutes per game (37.1) and third in assists (5.1 apg), while Quinton Rose is third in the league in steals (2.2 spg) and ninth in scoring (16.1 ppg).

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 (8) - vs. Coastal Carolina, South Dakota State, at South Alabama, Texas Southern, at UConn, Temple, at Memphis, at Tulsa
• 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

MARDI GRAS UNIFORMS
• Tulane wore Mardi Gras-inspired uniforms to celebrate Carnival season for the second year in a row for four 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 the last at home against ECU on February 23.

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.

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