Tulane Men Look to End Two-Game Losing Streak; Charlotte Game Moved to Friday
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Tulane University men's basketball will look to snap its two-game skid when it visits the Florida Atlantic Owls in Boca Raton, Florida, on Wednesday night. The Green Wave holds a 3-0 record in true road games so far this season including a 2-0 mark in conference play.
The game between the Wave and the Owls is set to tipoff at 6 p.m. CT on ESPN+. Fans can also listen to the action live on the Tulane Sports Network from Learfield on 106.7 The Ticket with the Voice of the Green Wave Corey Gloor or streaming on the Tulane Athletics App and The Varsity Network App.
Meanwhile, due to incoming inclement weather in the Charlotte area the American Conference has moved Sunday's men's basketball game at Charlotte to Friday, January 23, at 6:30 p.m. CT. The game was originally scheduled for Sunday at 1 p.m. CT, but projected weather conditions forced the change.
The matchup between the Green Wave and the 49ers will remain on ESPN+. All Tulane men's basketball games can also be heard on the Tulane Sports Network from Learfield on 106.7 The Ticket or streaming on the Tulane Athletics App and The Varsity Network App.
Tonight's game between Tulane and Florida Atlantic is the 11th meeting all time and the second this season. The Green Wave has won three-straight against the Owls to lead the overall series 8-2. In the first matchup this season the Wave defeated Florida Atlantic 69-66 in New Orleans on January 4 to improve to 5-1 at home. Tulane holds a 2-1 record against the Owls in Boca Raton, Florida, but has not beaten the Owls on the road since earning a 79-64 win on February 20, 1996. The last time the two teams met in Florida the Green Wave lost 73-79 on March 2, 2024.
Two Game Losing Streak
In its last time out, Tulane dropped its second consecutive game when it suffered a 71-63 loss at home to North Texas on January 18. Rowan Brumbaugh and Curtis Williams Jr. were the only two players for the Green Wave to finish with double figures in scoring. Brumbaugh ended with a game-high 22 points and matched a career-best with seven rebounds while Williams added 15 points with five made three-pointers.
Previous to that UNT loss, the Green Wave lost by 13 to UAB at Fogelman Arena. In those two losses, Tulane shot an abysmal 36% combined from the field. In addition, the Wave was out-rebounded by double-digits in both contests, something senior center Percy Daniels says needs to change, and it all begins with two words.
"Energy and effort, from everybody on the court" Daniels told us. And the senior from Baton Rouge was number specific. "If we want to win the game, we've got to get at least ten rebounds from our guards. It's everybody on the court giving their all."
Daniels has been playing on a bum leg for the last two weeks. The Tulane center said it was one of those friendly fire kind of injuries during practice.
"The way it happened," Daniels remembered, "I was running down the court, and I stepped on the back of somebody's foot. I knew it was pretty bad right away."
Even though he needs a few weeks off the leg for it to heal completely, that's not happening.
"There's no rest right now," Daniels told us. "It's crunch time right now."
Scouting the Owls of FAU
Florida Atlantic enters the Wednesday's contest on a four-game winning streak after defeating Temple on the road 79-73 on January 18. The Owls hold an 8-1 record at home so far this season including a 3-0 mark in conference play. In their home building this season Florida Atlantic is outscoring their opponents 91.4-68.8 while shooting 50.9 percent from the floor.
The trio of Devin Vanterpool, Kanaan Carlyle, and Isaiah Elohim each average double figures in scoring to lead the Florida Atlantic offense. Vanterpool leads the team with 15.4 points per game followed by 14.9 from Carlyle and 11.6 from Elohim.
Following the contest against Florida Atlantic, Tulane will make the trip to Charlotte, North Carolina, to face the Charlotte 49ers. As mentioned above, that game has been moved to a Friday night start instead of Sunday because of inclement weather bearing down on the East Coast for this weekend. Tip off for Friday's game between the Green Wave and the 49ers is set for Friday at 6:30 p.m. CST.
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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.