Was 1993-2003 an anomaly?
A phenomenal fluke?
Or was the University of Tulsa’s 1993-2003 basketball success a fair standard against which Frank Haith’s program should be measured today?
For Monday’s renewal of the Oral Roberts-TU Mayor’s Cup series — for a contest won 90-71 by Junior Etou and the Golden Hurricane — fewer than half of the Reynolds Center’s 8,355 seats were occupied.
Most of today’s players were toddlers when the Reynolds Center really rocked — when in 1998-2003 there were sellouts for 35 of the first 75 games played in TU’s beautiful gym.
In 223 games since, as the Tulsa program withered to a level of relative mediocrity, there were only six sellouts.
For Haith’s 100th game as the Hurricane head coach, the announced attendance on Monday was 4,437.
The actual attendance was about 3,500
- Tulsa World.
A phenomenal fluke?
Or was the University of Tulsa’s 1993-2003 basketball success a fair standard against which Frank Haith’s program should be measured today?
For Monday’s renewal of the Oral Roberts-TU Mayor’s Cup series — for a contest won 90-71 by Junior Etou and the Golden Hurricane — fewer than half of the Reynolds Center’s 8,355 seats were occupied.
Most of today’s players were toddlers when the Reynolds Center really rocked — when in 1998-2003 there were sellouts for 35 of the first 75 games played in TU’s beautiful gym.
In 223 games since, as the Tulsa program withered to a level of relative mediocrity, there were only six sellouts.
For Haith’s 100th game as the Hurricane head coach, the announced attendance on Monday was 4,437.
The actual attendance was about 3,500
- Tulsa World.