Tulane Game Thread
 

Saturday, January 4th, 2020
4:00 PM
Devlin Fieldhouse
CBS SN

Tulane (8-5, 0-1 AAC, NET #145) enters their 2020 AAC home opener with a renewed sense of purpose after already doubling last year's win total 10 games into the season and are coming off a resilient effort @Memphis this past Monday night. Despite losing by 11, Tulane rallied from a 14-point deficit early in the 2nd half to cut the Memphis lead down to 3 within the final minutes of the game.

First year coach Ron Hunter completed a total roster overhaul this offseason, and now plays a 7-man rotation featuring 5 transfers, 1 returning sophomore, and 1 true freshman. They lost talented guard, Ray Ona Embo, just over a month ago as he opted to return to his native France to pursue a pro career.

So far this season, Tulane has done a solid job of taking care of the ball (12 TOs/game) and not fouling their opponents (14 fouls/game) while shooting the 3 at a respectable 36% clip.

On the flip side, they are one of the weaker rebounding teams in the nation and block less than 2 shots per game. They don't start any traditional post players (they start 1 small point guard, 2 average sized wings, and 2 longer wings) and the only one they regularly bring off the bench is a true freshman.

Despite playing a very weak schedule so far, they do possess a Q1 win having beat Utah (NET #50) in an early season tournament.

We need to defend well and Scott and Vogt need to have a combined 30 points. Kill them in the paint.

They also appear to be a terrible assist team, so need to ensure they don't create easy baskets for themselves off 1-1's.

Im concerned about this one

If we play like we did against UCONN we will be fine.


But Ron hunter has never had a chance to host a team like Cincinnati on his home floor. He will get his guys ready and they have talented guys with Hightower and KJ Lawson.


They beat a team that beat Kentucky and are 5-0 at home (though the teams they played at home sucked).


I hope its a UC blow out but I suspect this comes down to the wire

All league road games are going to be hard. Hope we keep improving. We have a good chance to start league play 4-0 and get back on track.

Domination inside. Our bigs will kill them.

Agreed, I think Vogt has another big game in the paint.... also I loved JB calling plays for Jarron posting up a few times

-7.5

I’m feeling good about this one. We have put a few good games together and 2 of 3 were really good. If we hit a decent percentage of shots we win going away

These kind of games are crucial to have any real chance of making the tournament. Hopefully the team shows the necessary level of urgency.

Can't lose this one... But we haven't looked good on the road