Tulane's Brumbaugh Wins 1st Week's American Honors
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Tulane junior guard Rowan Brumbaugh took home the first honors the American Conference was handing out this week in basketball, earning player of the week honors for the league.
Brumbaugh posted 12-points, six rebounds and five steals in the season-opening win over Samford last Monday night before dropping a career high 33-points, along with six assists and four rebounds in a come-from-behind win over Texas State on Saturday. Tulane as a team hit a school record 30-of-30 from the free throw line, the most free throws made in a game without a miss. Brumbaugh led the way, making every one of the 19 he tried from the charity stripe.
The 2024 transfer from Georgetown is averaging 22.5 points, 5.0 rebounds, 4.0 assists and 3.0 steals in the Green Wave's two games thus far this season.
What the stats don't show, is the kind of leadership Brumbaugh has shown this year. Last year, he launched the ball from beyond the three-point arc 173 times, hitting just under 36% of them. However, he knows he needs to up his game beyond his shooting from the field.
"We're not going to win games every night with us popping threes," Brumbaugh told us. "So I think it starts with me leading on the defensive end."
The Green Wave are on the road for the first time this year, heading to Lafayette for a Tuesday night game against Louisiana.
The American Conference contributed to this story.
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.