Tulane Men Fall For 2nd Straight Home Loss, Unt Prevails 71-63

The Tulane men’s hoops squad kept up its issues pinch meticulous shooting, arsenic nan Green Wave fell to North Texas 71-63 earlier 1,307 fans successful Fogelman arena. It was nan 2nd consecutive American Conference nonaccomplishment for nan Wave, some of which came astatine home. Tulane drops to 12-6 connected nan year, 3-2 successful convention play. North Texas improves to 11-7 connected nan season, 2-3 successful nan AAC.

The crippled was a beingness 1 from commencement to finish. North Texas played a tight man-to-man to commencement nan game, which looked to get nan Green Wave retired of immoderate violative rhythm.

"I thought their physicality really bothered us," Hunter lamented. "We knew they were a really bully protect team. (However) we had wide unfastened shots and couldn't make those shots. We couldn't get nan violative rebounds, things we were doing good earlier this week."

"We've sewage bully teams successful our convention that play physical," Hunter pointed out.

First Half: UNT 35 - Tulane 30

The Green Wave continues its year-long bug-a-boo of not being capable to find nan bottommost of nan bucket aliases get nan rebound. In nan first 20-minutes of play, Tulane deed 31% of its shots from nan field, sinking only 9-of-their-29 shots connected goal, What kept TU successful nan game, were 2 factors: three-pointers and nan Tulane defense.

The Wave made 7 shots from beyond nan arc, making 44%. Meanwhile, nan TU defense forced North Texas into 8 first-half turnovers.

The Mean Green perfectly owned nan rebound crippled successful half #1, arsenic North Texas pulled down 22-boards. The Green Wave could only negociate ten.

For nan 2nd crippled successful a row, guardant Tyler Ringgold sewage into early foul problem limiting his first half participation. The sophomore picked up his 3rd fouled pinch conscionable complete 5-and-a-half minutes near connected nan timepiece successful play one.

Final: North Texas 71 - Tulane 63

Even though nan Wave was capable to portion nan UNT lead to conscionable 2 pinch 5:26 to spell successful nan game, missing unfastened shots and not getting nan rebounds came backmost to wound Tulane connected nan proverbial buttocks. The Green Wave only took 4 shots from nan section aft that point, only hitting a Rowan Brumbaugh layup. Meanwhile, North Texas went to nan free propulsion statement and made bully connected nan freebies, hitting 8-of-11 down nan agelong on pinch a layup and a three-pointer.

Field extremity shooting continued to beryllium nan Green Wave downfall successful nan 2nd half. After hitting correct astatine 31% successful nan first period, Tulane was half-a-tick amended successful nan past 20-minutes astatine 31.6%.

Junior defender Rowan Brumbaugh lead nan Wave pinch 22-points connected nan afternoon, going 6-of-15 from nan field, 8-for-9 astatine nan kindness stripe. The only different Greenie successful double-digits was defender Curtis Williams, Jr., who scored 15, each of his points coming from beyond nan three-point line.

"Hats disconnected to them (North Texas)," Williams said aft nan game. "They played really good today, but I don't deliberation it was them. It was really us. We hit ourselves. Outside of nan violative solid (where UNT pulled down 17-offensive rebounds), it wasn't them. It was us."

"We were missing wide unfastened shots," Hunter told us. "(Before this week) we were making those shots. Now we're missing those shots. We conscionable person to fig ourselves retired a small bit, get done this small bad patch."

Tulane now hits nan roadworthy for a brace of American Conference games. First up, a rematch pinch high-flying Florida Atlantic connected Wednesday nighttime successful Boca Raton. The Green Wave held nan Owls to 1 of its lowest violative outputs successful Fogelman earlier this period successful a three-point victory. Then, it's disconnected to 1 of nan apical teams successful nan American, Charlotte, connected Sunday, January 25th