Jan. 11, 2013
TULSA, Okla. -
After it took on the challenge of two road games to open the Conference USA season, the Tulsa basketball team will play its C-USA home debut of 2013 when it welcomes Rice to the Donald W. Reynolds Center at 5:30 p.m. Saturday.
The Golden Hurricane (9-7, 1-1 C-USA) is playing inside its home arena for just the second time in the last eight games. TU earned a split in its two C-USA road contests, defeating SMU, 48-47, and falling at Marshall, 79-61. The Owls enter the game with a 3-11 overall record and an 0-1 mark in C-USA play after dropping its league opener, 75-52, to Southern Miss. The game will be televised by CSS/Comcast SportsNet Houston, and will also be broadcast on KRMG AM 740/102.3 FM in Tulsa, and on www.TulsaHurricane.com.
The Last Meeting
February 18, 2012
Reynolds Center
TU Closes On 20-3 Run To Top Rice, 69-50
Senior center Steven Idlet and sophomore guard Jordan Clarkson combined for 41 points to lead the Tulsa men's basketball team to a 69-50 victory over Rice Saturday night in front of a season-high 5,511 fans at the Donald W. Reynolds Center.
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Freshman guard
James Woodard leads the active Golden Hurricane players in scoring, averaging 13.6 points, with 6.1 rebounds and 2.1 assists per game. Senior guard
Scottie Haralson averages 9.6 points, 3.4 rebounds and 2.1 three-pointers per contest. Junior guard
Pat Swilling, Jr., averages 10.3 points in his eight games played, and freshman guard
Rashad Ray averages 7.1 points. Senior forward
Kauri Black puts up 6.4 points and 5.1 rebounds per contest.
The Golden Hurricane averages 65.6 points and 36.7 rebounds per game, and shoots 44 percent from the field, 32 percent from three-point range and 66 percent from the free throw line. TU allows 64.3 points and 33.9 rebounds per contest, as well as a .403 field goal percentage and a .315 three-point percentage.
This is the 32nd meeting between Tulsa and Rice. Tulsa leads the series 25-6 and has won the last 12 games. The Hurricane has a 14-1 record against the Owls in Tulsa, including 11-1 at the Reynolds Center. The lone home loss against Rice came on Feb. 12, 2005, a 71-64 overtime victory for the Owls. Tulsa has not lost in the series against Rice since then. In the 12-game winning streak, Tulsa has outscored the Owls 70.9 to 57.1 points. The Hurricane is 8-5 in Houston against the Owls and has a 3-0 mark in neutral site games.
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In eight years as a member of Conference USA, Tulsa athletic teams have won a league-best 48 conference championships.
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Since the opening of the Donald W. Reynolds Center in 1998, Tulsa’s athletic facilities have undergone a major facelift. New facilities include the Michael D. Case Tennis Center, the Collins Family Softball Complex, the Hurricane Soccer and Track Stadium, the J. Bird Sr. Shell Nest, the Jack Zink Indoor Rowing Center, the Case Athletic Complex and major renovation to H.A. Chapman Stadium.
TU is 75th among national doctoral universities in U. S. News & World Report's 2012 edition of America's Best Colleges. TU's 2011 freshman class had a mean cumulative grade point average of 3.8, and 74 percent graduated in the top 10 percent of their high school classes. Their average ACT was 28.
The Golden Hurricane Club, as the primary fundraising arm of TU Athletics, works to provide every TU student-athlete with the opportunity to realize a world-class athletic and academic experience.
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