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Old 01-07-2020, 10:56 AM   #1
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Tulsa Game Thread

Wednesday, January 8th, 2020
7:00 PM
Fifth Third Arena
ESPNU

Tulsa (9-5, 1-0 AAC, NET #104) is looking to snap a streak of 3 consecutive seasons of missing postseason tournaments under 6th year head coach Frank Haith and are currently off-track to do so after not taking full advantage of one of the league's weaker OOC schedules (ranked 327th per KenPom).

They are however coming off a dominant 70-44 win over Temple in their AAC opener where they limited the Owls to their worst shooting outing of the year (27.7 FG%) while also holding them to a season-low 5 FT attempts.

Tulsa is led by 6'5 junior LSU transfer, Brandon Rachal, who is averaging 15 and 7 in his first year with the team. Tulsa returns 5 of their top 8 players from last year's 18 win team including 4-year starter Martins Igbanu.

Statiscally, they're pretty average across the board. They don't shoot a ton of 3-point shots (just under 19/game at 33.7%) and don't block a lot of shots (just over 2.5/game). They do get over 8 steals/game and don't foul a ton (just over 16/game).

Unlike us, they do possess a true road win at this stage of the season having won @Vanderbilt in November for their first Q2 win. They also just lost a nail biter @Kansas State a week and a half ago where a potential game-tying lay-up was blocked at the buzzer.
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