Erik Madrid, the 7 footer from Union.

Also, I didn’t realize that Shea Seals wound up on the staff there.

ITS GAME DAY!!!

Today the Tulsa Women host SMU. The men play tomorrow. Women are riding a two-game losing streak losing recently to USF. They hopefully will get a bounce back against the ponies.

Last night Robert Morris beat Detroit Mercy 85-77. Davis scored 29 points.

Todays games

Today is the BIG 12/SEC challenge. Ole Miss is at Oklahoma State this evening.

In the American, Cincinnati travels to the Frittata to take on Houston on CBS this afternoon.

And One

Talking about the tournament in March, I am a firm believer that none of the 16 seeds should have to play in the first 4. These teams won their conference and should be in the 1st round and not have to go to Dayton. The “Play in” games should be for 11-14 seeds.

With 44 days until Selection Sunday this is what the Bracketology looks like

Houston – 1 seed in the West
Florida Atlantic – 8 Seed in the Midwest
Memphis – 10 seed in the West and Last 4 Bye
Oral Roberts – 12 Seed in the West

Conference Breakdown

Big 10 – 9 teams
Big 12 – 7 Teams
ACC – 7 teams
SEC – 6 teams
Big East – 5 teams
PAC-12 – 4 teams
Mountain West – 3 Teams
American – 2 teams
West Coast – 2 teams

The rest have 1 team.

GO TU!!!

Today’s games

AAC games


Other Games of Interest (Expansion Teams, Possible Teams and TU Women)


Rankings


Rest of GOI Teams


Expansion teams

The GA election piece has been debunked 1000 times over. All media outlets who falsely reported Trumps conversations have rolled those statements back. The interesting case will be taxes!

With the new offers to Drew Perez and Heim from Bethany, I'm excited to see who shows up the next two weekends.

TU up 21-14 with 8 min left in the half

Congratulations on landing Ron Burton. I've been following Michigan State football for over 55 years He's easily the best DL coach that Michigan State has had in 30 years and one of the best assistant coaches we've had in a generation. Under Mark Dantonio, the defensive line was the strength of the program for over a decade thanks to Coach Burton.

He's a great coach on the field and a humble, decent man off the field. I think that Coach Tucker made a mistake in parting ways with Burton. We suffered last season without him.

Get ready to start having good defensive lines at Tulsa. He's a good one.

So, this is what it's like being excited for football. Heck, the actual team may not win any more games in season 1 than this year but the energy the coaches and staff have in recruiting is contagious because I have the same energy and can't wait to see what happens. Hurry up Spring ball!

Does anyone know what he's up to? I just went to Mack's Wings for lunch and there was a Tulsa police officer in there with his partner, name tag had J Wheeler on it, and it looked like him (minus the crazy hair he had when he was playing) and the height was right. In looking at his Bio photo from the TU website, I'm leaning that this police officer was him. There are too many coincidences for it to not be him.

After several hours of research, here are the top University of Tulsa PG by Assist/Turnover Ratio which most consider the most important stat. Some of these were 2 year , 3 year or 4 year players which did not affect the ratio.

1. 2.42 Byron Boudreau (# 3 in career assists here) (Huffy will like this stat)
2. 2.23 Pooh Williamson ( only 124 turnovers in 4 years)
3. 2.02 Ricky Ross ( 364 assists in two years here for the best yearly average assists)
4. 1.58 Mike Anderson
5. 1.57 Greg Harrington (# 1 in career assists here)
6. 1.54 Mark Morse
7. 1.51 Shaq Harrison (#2 in career assists here)
8. 1.44 Reggie Shields
9. 1.33 Paul Pressey
10. 1.28 Rod Thompson
11. 1.27 Ben Uzoh

ITS GAMEDAY!!!!!

Tulsa Men travel to Greenville today looking for their first conference road win and hopefully starting a winning streak!!! This will get us another Q3 win
Yesterday Jackson State edged FAMU 59-58, Southern beat Miss Valley State 84-70 and Detroit Mercy lost to Oakland 76-67. Antoine Davis is now at 3,288 on the career only bagging 14 points last night.

Todays games

Only 2 games other than TU that I am tracking. Oklahoma State takes on Texas (Net 9) at 8 p.m. on the Longhorn Network and Bowling Green Travels to Central Michigan.

GO TU!!!!

Today’s games

AAC Games


Other Games of Interest (Expansion Teams, Possible Teams and TU Women)


Rankings

AAC


Rest of GOI


Expansion Teams


Quad Tracker

Which teams utilized the portal the most this window?

• Per On3 Sports, Arizona State and Colorado utilized the transfer portal the most during the winter window. The Sun Devils added 25 players (they lost 20) while the Buffaloes and new head coach Deion Sanders added 24 players and lost 13.
• All told, 21 programs added 10 or more transfers, while 52 programs lost 10 or more players to the portal.
• Teams that were hit the hardest by defections include Texas A&M and Arkansas (27), Ole Miss (25), Florida (23), Arizona (22), Oregon (21) and Arizona State (20).

https://www.deseret.com/2023/1/19/2...er-portal-window-has-closed-what-happens-next

**Deseret News

Assists/Turnovers

Pooh- 117/36
Harrington 176/95
Harrison 132/67
Taplin 132/73
Joiner 86/54
Pritchard 64/62. To date

AAC PG to date Assists/Turnovers

Houston 91/36
Tulane 69/22
USF 62/37
UCF 43/26
Memphis 104/59
Temple 71/47
Wichita 35/5
Cincy 83/30
ECU 100/61
Tulsa 64/62

Great article from Larry...

10 minutes

Congress continues to ignore creating new immigration legislation to address problems at the border. Until the legislation is changed, the ability of the President or governors is insufficient to fix or even improve the situation. The last major reform was over 40 years ago although small restrictive changes have been made since. Meanwhile US businesses are pushing to allow increased immigration to help fill the 10 million. Bush and Obama both pushed new legislation and there have been vagarious bipartisan bills that passed in the Senate, but those bills have stalled in the House. Here's the latest. If governors want changes at the border, they should be putting pressure on their legislators in Congress to get something done. Sending buses to DC is fun, but won't fix anything until Congress acts. For some reason McCarthy has promised that no new immigration bill will be voted on in the House in the next two years if he becomes Speaker. Why, so he can hammer at the President who doesn't have the power to fix the situatiion?

Congress needs to get off its butt.

And when will it be announced

In his continuing series on highlighting the TU campus, Coach Konkol's video show came from McFarlin Library, one of the iconic structures at The University of Tulsa:

https://tulsahurricane.com/watch?Archive=18938&type=Live

Coach Konkol has wanted to go to various places on campus to highlight TU as a part of his weekly video show. Even though this was posted before the ECU game, there's still some interesting stuff, including a little history about McFarlin Library:

https://tulsahurricane.com/watch?Archive=18938&type=Live

GO TU

Insane. Griffin is so goofy.

Refs were HORRIBLE. It’s BS to call that travel. Call it every time then. Glad we got the win. That’s a good team.

Also horrible was was our free throw shooting. No excuses for that.

Apparently the Russians funded US environmental groups and lobbyists through offshore shell corporations to promote an anti frac'ing / anti fossil fuel agenda.
Real Russian Collusion

The line is INSANELY long