GAME THREAD: MBB vs Tulsa

[shadowman]

Oops,

meant Tulsa was already in town, not WSU. Good catch Terry, I corrected it.

[Terry Webster]

Oops,

meant Tulsa was already in town, not WSU. Good catch Terry, I corrected it.

But we could handle a double header.

[PonyPride]

Hot or cold?

Tulsa comes into tonights game having won two of its last three, including an 83-77 win over Cincinnati.

Also, Tulsa has lost 11 of its last 14.

[PonyPride]

Mustangs are warming up — Jalen Smith is out of uniform.

Tristan Clark, on the other hand, is warming up.

[ponyboy]

Anybody there tonight with this weird weather?

[PonyPride]

Tulsa does not have the obvious frontcourt size advantage some teams have. Only two players stand taller than 6-7: Rey Idowu (6-9) and Nikita Konstantynovskyi (6-10).

Idowu is averaging 8.1 points per game and 4.3 rebounds; Konstantynovskyi is averaging 2.0 points and 2.6 boards.

[PonyPride]

Anybody there tonight with this weird weather?

Very sparse crowd (which includes Rhett Lashlee and George and Laura Bush) at the moment — but we do have more than 13 minutes until tipoff...

[mustangxc]

The first W, showed up. Now let's get the other W we all want including W himself!

[PonyPride]

Golden Hurricane is led by two double-digit scorers:

Jeremiah Horne (15.84 points per game) ranks fifth in the American Athletic Conference.
Sam Griffin (15.40 PPG) ranks seventh in the AAC.

Kendric Davis (19.42 PPG) is the conference's leading scorers. Marcus Weathers (12.56 PPG) ranks 12th.

[PonyPride]

Students starting to fill section behind scorers' table

[PonyPride]

STARTERS

Tulsa
G 1 Sam Griffin
G 11 Darien Jackson
G 14 Anthony Pritchard
F 25 Rey Idowu
F 41 Jeriah Horne

SMU
G 3 Kendric Davis
G 5 Emmanuel Bandoumel
G 10 Zach Nutall
G 23 Michael Weathers
F 50 Marcus Weathers

[PonyPride]

Marcus Weathers opens the scoring

SMU 2-0

[PonyPride]

Marcus Weathers 4
Tulsa 0

[PonyPride]

Marcus Weathers with a 3 and a block

SMU (Marcus) 7, Tulsa 2

[PonyPride]

Bandoumel draws two fouls in about 20 seconds, hits 2 FTs

SMU 9-2