Tulane Men Crush Texas-San Antonio, 85-52
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Sometimes, a team can play down to the talent of its opponent. That did not happen Saturday afternoon in Texas, for the Tulane men's basketball team as the Green Wave took the lead at the 17:09 mark of the first half that it would not relinquish for the rest of the game in the Wave's 85-52 rout of Texas-San Antonio. The win gives the Wave its first 3-0 conference start in 29-years, a 12-4 record for the season. UTSA drops to 0-4 in American Conference play, 4-12 for the year.
Included in that first 20-minutes of play, a Tulane 15-0 run including back-to-back-to-back-to-back three pointers from guards Rowan Brumbaugh and Asher Woods, as the Green Wave opened up a 39-21 advantage by the end of the first half.
Leading the way for the game was Brumbaugh, who shot a blistering 57% from the field and 55% from beyond the arc totaling 23-points. Curtis Williams, Jr. poured in 22, including an even hotter 60% of his 10-shots from three-point land. Woods was the third Greenie in double-digits with 17.
The difference in the game was the Tulane defense. The leading scorers for the Road Runners hit 12 and 10-points for the contest. They were the only UTSA players in double-digits. The Green Wave defense held Texas-San Antonio to a meager 34% from the field for the game. It was even worse in the first twenty minutes of play, as Tulane held the Road Runners to an even meager-er (we know that's not a word) 25.8%.
The Green Wave piled up the Road Runner turnovers, totaling 16 by game's end. Those led to 20-points off turnovers for the Wave. In the all-important assist-to-turnover margin, Tulane owned UTSA, with the Wave handing out 22 assists, while turning it over 10-times.
Tulane's largest lead hit 38-points at the 3:29 mark of the second half when KJ Greene hit his only bucket of the game, a three-pointer from the wing.
Now unbeaten in three American Conference tries, the Wave are tied atop the AAC with an also 3-0 Temple Owl team. Memphis sits at 2-0.
The Green Wave return home for back-to-back games in the friendly confines of Fogelman. First up, the UAB Blazers on Wednesday, January 14th at 6:30 p.m.. Then, on Sunday afternoon, January 18th, Tulane entertains North Texas at 3:00.
Doug has covered a gamut of sporting events in his fifty-plus years in the field. He started doing sideline reporting for Louisiana Tech football games for the student radio station. Doug was Sports Director for KNOE-AM/FM in Monroe in the mid-80s, winning numerous awards from the Louisiana Sports Writers Association for Best Sportscast and Best Play-by-Play. High school play-by-play for teams in Monroe, Natchitoches, New Orleans, and Thibodaux, LA dot his resume. He did college play-by-play for Northwestern State University in Natchitoches for nine years. Then, moving to the Crescent City, Doug did television PBP of Tulane games and even filled in for legendary Tulane broadcaster, Ken Berthelot in the only game Kenny ever missed while doing the Green Wave games. His father was an alumnus of Tulane in the 1940s, so Doug has attended Tulane football games in old Tulane Stadium, the Superdome, and Yulman. He was one of the 86,000 plus on December 1, 1973, sitting in the North End Zone to seeTulane shutout the LSU Tigers, 14-0. He was there when the Posse ruled Fogelman and in Turchin when the Wave made it to the World Series. He currently is the public address voice of the Tulane baseball team.