Tulane Men's Basketball Hosts Spring Hill College for an Exhibition on Wednesday

NEW ORLEANS – Tulane University men's basketball will take the court for its final tune-up prior to the 2022-23 regular season, as it welcomes Spring Hill College to Avron B. Fogelman Arena in the Devlin Fieldhouse on Wednesday night.

The game is set to tipoff at 6 p.m. and tickets are available for $5. Fans can follow along with live stats by clicking HERE.

STARTING FIVE
1. The Tulane University men's basketball team makes their first appearance in Uptown this fall as it welcomes Spring Hill College for an exhibition before the beginning of the regular season. This is the first meetings between the two teams.

2. The team returns for the 2022-23 campaign after their most successful season in the Ron Hunter era. The Green Wave finished with 10 conference wins, its most since joining the AAC and nine wins at home, the most since 2017-18. It also marked the first time Tulane beat Memphis, Witchia State, Cincinnati and ECU in a single season.

3. Since joining the AAC in 2014-15, Tulane has only won six conference games on one occasion (2014-15).

4. This season, head coach Ron Hunter's staff welcomes back 10 letter winners, four newcomers and four starters, including preseason All-American Athletic Conference honorees Jalen Cook, Jaylen Forbes and Kevin Cross. Each of the All-AAC honorees averaged 10+ ppg last season. Cook averaged 18.0 ppg, the most for a freshman in the AAC. Forbes averaged 16.2 with a .444 shooting percentage, good for third and fourth in the conference. Cross averaged 13.9 ppg, was third in the conference in rebounding with 6.8 per game, was best on the team and second in the conference in field goal percentage at .520.

5. Tulane finished the 21-22 season ranked third in the conference in offense averaging 73.3 ppg and in third in team field goal percentage with .437 behind only Houston and Memphis. Tulane led the conference in 3-point percentage shooting .371 in conference play. The Green Wave protected the ball well ranking sixth in the nation
in fewest turnovers.

THE SERIES

This is the first ever meeting between the two teams.

TULANE BY THE NUMBERS

255 – Tulane has made at least one 3-point field goal in 255 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.

64 – Jaylen Forbes is 64 points away from 1,000 in his career.

19 – Ron Hunter is 19 wins away from 500 career wins.

10 – The team welcomes back 10 letterwinners including starters Jalen Cook, Sion James, Kevin Cross and Jaylen Forbes.

9.4 – The Green Wave saw a 9.4 percent increase in average points per game from the 2020-21 season to the 2021-22 season.

4 – Tulane was picked to finish fourth in the American Athletic Conference 2022-23 preseason poll.

3 – Three members earned Preseason All-AAC Honors. Jalen Cook was a unanimous first team selection while Jaylen Forbes and and Kevin Cross earned second team honors.

THE OPPONENT – SPRING HILL COLLEGE

The Badgers finished 9-19 in 2021-22 and 7-11 in conference play.
Redshirt-Sophomore Beril Kabamba led Spring Hill College with 14.3 points per game with a 42.3 field goal percentage.
Head Coach Craig Kennedy enters his 5^th season as the head coach for Spring Hill College.

LAST TIME OUT – TULANE ENDS SEASON IN AAC TOURNAMENT SEMIFINALS
The last time Tulane took the floor it fell to the then No. 18 Houston Cougars 66-86 in the semifinals of the American Athletic Conference Tournament.

The Green Wave finished with 14 wins on the year, tying their most wins in a single season since the 2017-18 campaign.

The Cougars outrebounded the Wave 43-21 and scored 30 second-chance points as opposed to Tulane's 0, which proved to be a game-changer.

Tulane shot 46.0 percent from the field, 30.0 percent from beyond the arc and just 67.0 percent from the line. Houston had the upper hand shooting 49.0 percent from the field, 38.0 from three-point range and 79.0 percent from the foul line.

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Tulane Men's Basketball Hosts Spring Hill College for an Exhibition on Wednesday

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