Got the mayor's cup back, now the real work starts. Beat Missouri St.

It was significantly different for Keaston Willis this time against ORU. And only in good ways.

Willis scored 22 points to lead TU to an 85-76 victory Wednesday night to win the Mayor’s Cup in front of 3,906 fans at the Reynolds Center.

It was significantly different for Keaston Willis this time against ORU. And only in good ways.

Willis scored 22 points to lead TU to an 85-76 victory Wednesday night to win the Mayor’s Cup in front of 3,906 fans at the Reynolds Center.

Interesting discussion. Suggests city proper may have slightly favored Harris. I am trying to locate his blog.

Predictions ? I really don’t know much about oru this year

On Eye of the Hurricane Podcast, highlights and interviews with Coach Konkol and Keaston Willis on Post Game Radio Remix after TU's triumph over ORU

https://tulsahurricane.com/sports/2019/8/26/eye-of-the-hurricane-podcast

On Eye of the Hurricane Podcast, Post Game Radio Remix with highlights and interviews with Coach Konkol and player Keaston Willis after TU took out ORU

https://tulsahurricane.com/sports/2019/8/26/eye-of-the-hurricane-podcast

Tulsa needs a solid start against East Carolina on Thursday night if it hopes to win and keep its bowl hopes alive.

Has anyone heard when he might be back? I hope soon. It’ll take him a few games to get into game flow and fitness. Same with Amadi. I’m afraid we’re going to lose some games we wouldn’t with Garcia st full strength.

Welcome back to the 2024-2025 GOI. Sorry it is coming out so late but I have been busy with the Presidential Election (I am an election official) and the transition for the new administration. If you don’t know I work for the federal Government so this is a very busy time for me. I will try to get out the best I can. Remember this is my thoughts only. If you need to talk crap do it elsewhere cause I don’t care.

AAC heavy today. Tulsa tries to make it 2-0 when it takes on Arkansas Pine Bluff. The North Dakota at UTSA game has been postponed due to the weather that the upper central part of the US has been getting which has delayed travel for the Fighting Hawks.

Today’s games

Arkansas Pine Bluff at Tulsa
Coastal Carolina at East Carolina
Charlotte at Utah St.
Memphis at UNLV
Montana St at Wichita St.
Florida St. at Rice.

Full Schedule is below

AND ONE

The ratings that are listed on here right now is what they were for last years NET. I do plan to start using probably the KENPOM until the new NET comes out. Generally it comes out in December.

GO TU!!!

Today’s games

AAC Games


Other Games of Interest (TU Women)

He’s not on the team. He’s on the team. He’s not on the team. What a disaster at Memphis.

Memphis basketball dismisses forward Tyreek Smith​

Roman Cleary
19 hours ago

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Tyreek Smith is gone. Again.
The SMU transfer is being dismissed from Memphis basketball because of circumstances related to his previous dispute and subsequent departure from the program last month, multiple sources close to the situation tell Bluff City Media. Smith is now expected to enter the transfer portal.
”We can confirm that fifth-year senior forward Tyreek Smith is no longer with the Memphis men’s basketball program,” a Memphis spokesperson told Bluff City Media. “Tyreek informed the staff that he would like to explore other opportunities. We would like to thank Tyreek for his hard work and dedication while at the University of Memphis and wish him the best of luck.”
Smith originally quit the team on Oct. 18, which Bluff City Media reported two days later, but he eventually returned to practice on Oct. 22.
“He came to me and asked me for a couple personal days, and I gave them to him. And then that turned into people not seeing him at practice, and then it just became a wildfire,” Memphis coach Penny Hardaway told reporters on Oct. 24. “He never once told me he was quitting.”
Comments from sources contradict Hardaway’s claims, however. Smith, a 6-foot-8 senior, came to Memphis after an assistant coach who’s no longer on staff promised him the starting power forward position, but Hardaway later switched him to a small-ball center.
Smith expressed significant frustration after he didn’t start in last month’s Hoops for St. Jude Tip Off Classic exhibition against No. 9 North Carolina, where he recorded 8 points on 75% shooting. Nick Jourdain, Memphis’ only returning scholarship player, started instead and put up 11 points, 9 rebounds, 2 blocks and 2 steals in the Tigers’ 84-76 loss.
The 24-year-old was also unhappy with his NIL situation, though he has been receiving his payments on time via FedEx since arriving on campus this summer. His mentor and NIL representative Hellion “Boog” Knight took to X, the social media app formerly known as Twitter, numerous times on Oct. 21 to claim that Memphis made several financial promises during his recruitment that haven’t “been fulfilled.”
Sources indicate these allegations are false.
Smith sat out Memphis’ second exhibition against No. 2 Alabama with an ankle injury on Oct. 28, though he watched the game from the bench whilst sporting a brace on his right foot.
Hardaway formally dismissed Smith from the program on Friday after he barged into the seventh-year coach’s office and asked for earlier payments than what he originally agreed to earlier this week, according to sources.
“There’s so much pressure with NIL, with playing time, with family members, with all kinds of stuff happening,” Hardaway said on Oct. 24. “Most coaches are leaving, like Tony Bennett (former Virginia coach), one of the coaches that we need on this level. Some coaches just can’t stomach showing up every day and thinking it’s about money or something’s always wrong. You got a different team every year. Like, you can’t have your same team. You gotta re-recruit your guys.
“For the basketball purists, that’s tough. It’s like a gut punch. Every day, having to see something on social media or hear a young man or lady isn’t happy about this or that. It’s just our life that we have to deal with right now, but nothing surprises me anymore in today’s game.”
Memphis opens the regular season against Missouri inside FedExForum Monday (7 p.m., ESPN+).

Braeden Carrington has made an instant impact at Tulsa after transferring from Minnesota in the off-season.

Braeden Carrington has made an instant impact at Tulsa after transferring from Minnesota in the off-season.

The month of October was a busy one for Tulsa football coaches, as they extended several new scholarship offers in the 2025, 2026 and 2027 recruiting classes. The 2025 recruiting cycle has an important signing period that is fast approaching, as TU looks to fill out its recruiting class.

Remember when the great executive lied on the campaign trail and said he didn't know anything about Project 2025, and you all said you would take his word for it?

Well, he has officially started hiring the Project 2025 coauthors back into the administration.... starting with his border czar / former ICE chief...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/11/11/tom-homan-border-czar-trump/

Has anyone heard of these houses ? Would assume they are not very well built but wanted everyone’s opinion on them. Looks like they range anywhere from $15000 to $25000. Lawpoke ?

I saw a video circulating around Facebook of a homecoming parade for the University of Tulsa, in packed streets of downtown. Appeared to be sometime in the late 1950s.

How did we get so far from this? I'm way too young to know a lot of the historical events, but it sure seems like there was a point in time where we had the recipe to be something special.

(Im not naive to think it's just a Tulsa problem, im sure there are 100+ schools that could claim the same thing)

Anyone paying attention to the Thunder?

That team is extraordinary. Like, I've watched a lot of pro ball and I've never seen another team like it. Chet goes down with a hip injury.... they basically have one healthy big left on the entire team, and he's more of a perimeter guy.... and they're still competitive.

The defense by their guards is otherworldly, especially post defense.

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I didn't grow up in Tulsa, but I grew up listening to KELI & KAKC. From Bill Haley & the Comets, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, Jerry Lee Lewis etc. , I learned quickly how to rock. Then Jazz, such as Weather Report & Return to Forever and big bands like Thad Jones/Mel Lewis & Buddy Rich.

Somehow or another, I even got heavy into Opera, although all my faves made their careers at the Metropolitan Opera in NYC in the 1920's & '30s. People like Ezio Pinza, Elizabeth Rethburg, Ricardo Martinelli, Beniamino Gigli Lauritz Melchior and the sweetest voiced tenor of that time...Jussi Bjoerling who came a bit later.

For the last 30 years, it's been Blues, all Blues & nothin' but the Blues. From Lightnin' Hopkins, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy and most all electric Chicago blues, Miss. Hill country blues with R.L. Burnside, T-Model Ford, Junior ?? can't remember last), acoustic or electric, I like most all of it.

So, I'd like to hear from others where music was such a big part of their life. Fav artists, style of music, fav bands or orchestras....just all music, all the time.

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Got absolutely hammered by OU last night, 6-0. Not an encouraging sign for a good season.