1935 A-Capitol Hill 22, El Reno 21 B-Union Valley 30, Dustin 18. Madison Scott led the Rebels with 15 points. Copyright 2000-2023 Sports Reference LLC. Marcus Sasser scored 25 points and had five 3-pointers, Emanuel Sharp added 13 points and No. Paul Mills is the ORU mens head man and the Summit League Coach of the Year and he has Sioux Falls fatigue. Tulsa joined Conference USA with the 20052006 season. Mississippi could not find an answer and matched its fewest points in a game this season. ", "Tubbs happy for Richardson: Q&A with Nolan Richardson. In 2005, Street & Smith's named the University of Tulsa as the 59th best college basketball program of all time.[3]. Two more years remain on the current Summit League-Sioux Falls contract. The Gamecocks took the drama out of this one early with Cooke and Boston getting four points apiece and Beal adding a three-point play for a 13-4 lead less than seven minutes in. Thoughts of Oklahoma basketball conjure an image of iron-fisted Henry Iba coaching a deliberate brand of offense and fundamental defense at Oklahoma A&M University. The patriarch, Denny, scored forty-two points in the finals to lead Norman High to the 1956 state championship, then starred for the University of Oklahoma and the Phillips 66ers, and eventually became the head coach at Phillips University. The Tulsa Golden Hurricane men's basketball team represents the University of Tulsa in Tulsa, in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. After a lengthy discussion of the metrics used by the NCAA Selection Committee when choosing at-large participants, Mills sighed and said, At the end of the day, you better go out and win games.. With Oklahoma and Oklahoma State, the Oklahoma Collegiate Conference was formed for the 19141915 season. 1998-99 Tulsa Golden Hurricane Men's Roster and Stats Previous Season Next Season Record: 23-10 (9-5, 2nd in WAC MBB Mountain) Coach: Bill Self PS/G: 70.3 (154th of 311) More School Info WAC Reg Season Champ Tulsa (Men's) School History Roster & Stats Polls, Schedule & Results On this page: Roster Per Game Team and Opponent Stats Per Game Totals Jan 20, Tulsa (17-1) Win vs. San Jose State, 67-41, 19. Join our linker program. Tulsa would participate in this conference for fifteen years, with occasional breaks. 1998: Rudy Garcia, Union; and Terry Scott, Central . Leading scorer Angel Baker, averaging 15.3 points coming in, was held to nine on 4-of-15 shooting. In 2021, Mills said, then-fourth-seeded ORU was sent to a hotel that fell below the standards of hotels occupied by the fifth- and sixth-seeded teams. L11. CBS Sports is a registered trademark of CBS Broadcasting Inc. Commissioner.com is a registered trademark of CBS Interactive Inc. site: media | arena: collegebasketball | pageType: profiles | Go To Coaching Staff. After losing in the semifinals of the 1999 WAC men's basketball tournament, the team an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament as No. In a 6 p.m. Monday semifinal live-streamed on ESPN+, ORU is matched with Western Illinois or St. Thomas. 1999-2000 Tulsa Golden Hurricane men's basketball team The Golden Eagles have the conference Player of the Year (Abmas) and the conference Defensive Player of the Year (Vanover, who before the start of the tournament needed only three more blocked shots to reach the 100 mark for the season). Jan 10, Tulsa (14-3) Win vs. Wyoming, 96-89, 18. The Gamecocks took the drama out of this one early with Cooke and Boston getting four points apiece and Beal adding a three-point play for a 13-4 lead less than seven minutes in. tournament after an 181 season which widely regarded them as Oklahoma champions). Boston had 10 points and 11 rebounds as the Gamecocks (31-0) won their 37th straight . Dec 4, Tulsa (6-0) Win vs. UAB, 88-73 7. Dec 14 @ Oral Roberts, Tulsa (7-2) Win vs. Our reasoning for presenting offensive logos. Feb 28, Tulsa (18-11) Win vs. Southern Methodist, 79-70, 30. Theyre humans. Successful players to never make it to the NBA include Gary Collier, the 1994 MVC player of the year, Michael Scott, the 1989 and 1991 MVC defensive player of the year, and Willie Biles who led the MVC in scoring in both the 197273 and 19731974 seasons.[5]. After Dr. James Naismith invented it at Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1891, the game quickly gained popularity. Find out the latest on your favorite NCAAB teams on CBSSports.com. Select a College. 139, University of Tulsa Media Guide, pp. South Carolina starting point guard Kierra Fletcher went to the locker room in the first quarter after falling and holding her leg. In 1948 five Phillips players played on the gold-medalwinning U.S. Olympic team coached by 66ers coach Bud Browning. They get impacted by 10,000 people yelling at them., I joined the Tulsa World in 1990. Oklahoma City University men's basketball has also been consistently good. For games that dont involve Dakota teams, attendance is pretty solid. Nov 21 (Neutral), Tulsa (1-1) Loss vs. Gonzaga, 40-78, 3. Tulsa has been a member of a variety of conferences over its history. Tulsa hired Bill Self away from Oral Roberts in 1997. Jan 28, Tulsa (16-5) Win vs. TCU, 72-62, 22. Learn more and register, Height of bar is margin of victory Mouseover bar for details Click for box score Grouped by Month, 1. Cooke finished with 14 points and Beal 13 for the Gamecocks. The Golden Hurricane played their home games at the Tulsa Convention Center. Tulsa currently plays in the Reynolds Center, an 8,355-capacity on-campus arena adjacent to Skelly Field at H. A. Chapman Stadium. Another turning point in the rivalry was TU's hiring of Bill Self away from ORU prior to the 1997-98 season. Dec 5 @ Marquette, Tulsa (7-1) Win vs. Marquette, 67-51, 9. Drafted by American Basketball Association's (ABA) San Diego Rockets, 1969. Cypress Falls HS Houston, Texas. BRETT ROJO/for the Tulsa World, With a Feb. 16 victory over North Dakota, ORU clinched the Summit League regular-season title. 1997-98 Tulsa Golden Hurricane Men's Roster and Stats Previous Season Next Season Record: 19-12 (9-5, 3rd in WAC MBB Pacific) Coach: Bill Self PS/G: 68.2 (215th of 306) More School Info Tulsa (Men's) School History Roster & Stats Polls, Schedule & Results On this page: Roster Per Game Team and Opponent Stats Per Game Totals Per 40 Minutes Advanced Join us for a March Madness Webinar on Tuesday, March 7 at 8pm ET. A traveling trophy, the Mayor's Cup, is exchanged between the winner of the game. [19] The most recent was that of Bingo Smith on February 22, 2020.[20]. BASEBALL, BASEBALLAFRICAN AMERICAN, FOOTBALL, RECREATION AND ENTERTAINMENT, SPORTS, WRESTLING. The Reynolds Center was completed in 1998. The sons, Mark, Matt, and Brent, also excelled in high school basketball, and all three played college ball. Seemingly archaic in an era of Title IX and the WNBA, these rules changed several times after 1919. Dec 1, Tulsa (4-2) Win vs. Nebraska, 85-68, 7. Jan 24, Tulsa (11-8) Win vs. Hawaii, 64-63, 20. Jan 15 @ Rice, Tulsa (16-1) Win vs. Rice, 67-49, 18. Lawrence Cudjoe coached Oklahoma basketball for twenty-six years at Pawnee Lincoln and Oklahoma City Douglass high schools and at Langston. Mississippi, a seventh seed, was upset in first round by South Dakota. . It was the second straight year Mississippis tournament was ended in the semifinals by the Gamecocks. After a 20-loss season and attendance issues, TU's Frank Haith resigns In that league, Gonzaga goes straight to the semifinals. University of Tulsa Athletics Clarence Iba, brother of Henry Iba, helped to springboard Tulsa to success when named the head coach in 1949. Following the 190809 season, the team went on hiatus for several years before restarting for the 191314 season under Harvey Allen. Dec 18, Tulsa (8-1) Win vs. Delaware State, 72-52, 10. Feb 15, Tulsa (18-8) Loss vs. Nevada-Las Vegas, 53-54, 27. Smith spent four seasons at Tulsa, winning two MVC championships and leading them past the first round of the NCAA tournament for the first time, to the Sweet Sixteen in both the 19931994 and 19941995 seasons. Dec 7 @ Missouri State, Tulsa (7-0) Win vs. Missouri State, 69-60 8. Watch our How-To Videos to Become a Stathead, Subscribe to Stathead and get access to more data than you can imagine. Many great players have been a part of it, including Bill Russell, Elgin Baylor, Pete Maravich, and Karl Malone. High School Basketball Champions - The Oklahoman Anchored by Missouri native Bob Kurland and an all-Oklahoman cast, his teams won national championships in 1945 and 1946. Oklahoma high schools' girls played six-on-six basketball longer than any other state; in 1987 the Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association allowed a team to choose between five-on-five and six-on-six. 2 Houston aim to stay hot vs. Tulsa, Davenport scores 20 as Cincinnati takes down Tulsa 81-55, Davis scores 26, Memphis downs Tulsa 80-68. All Rights Reserved. DANIEL SHULAR/Tulsa World, Summit League Player of the Year Max Abmas and the ORU Golden Eagles are in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, for the Summit League Championship. Find out more. Cooke had 14 points and Brea Beal, another starter, 13 for Gamecocks (31-0) who won their 37th straight game. Basketball | The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture Many of these black players went to Oklahoma's African American college, Langston, and played for Zip Gayles, who coached athletic programs there for thirty-five years (193065). The Rebels made just two of their first 13 shots and had eight of their attempts blocked the first 20 minutes. Iba also coached two gold-medalwinning Olympic basketball teams (1964 and 1968) and a silver-medal winner (1972). Feb 6 @ Colorado State, Tulsa (17-7) Loss vs. Colorado State, 64-71, 25. After segregated competition ended in 1955, Okmulgee, Muskogee, Seminole, and Okfuskee counties, with larger percentages of African Americans than the rest of the state, began to take championships. It feels like it would have to be a phenomenal bid to break up the Summit League-Sioux Falls relationship. Bill Haisten: Tubby memories should compel TU to apply urgency to a We present them here for purely educational purposes. Led by second-year head coach Bill Self, they finished the season 2310 overall and 95 in conference play to finish tied atop the WAC Mountain division standings. Small-college basketball in Oklahoma has been exceptional. In 1990 the Oklahoma City Cavalry joined Tulsa in the CBA, a developmental association for the NBA. Jan 16 @ UNLV, Tulsa (14-5) Loss vs. Nevada-Las Vegas, 55-73, 20. Our (NCAA Sweet Sixteen) run two years ago was a $6 million influx for the conference, Mills said. Mar 26 (Neutral), Tulsa (32-5) Loss vs. North Carolina, 55-59, College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com Blog and Articles. The official 2022-23 Men's Basketball schedule for the Tulsa Hurricane. 24, 26, 202223 Tulsa Golden Hurricane men's basketball team, List of Tulsa Golden Hurricane men's basketball seasons, List of NCAA men's basketball retired numbers, "Eric Konkol accepts head coach job at University of Tulsa", "Coaching Great Nolan Richardson and Three Former Athletes to Receive Induction into TU Athletic Hall of Fame. Copyright to all articles and other content in the online and print versions of The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History is held by the Oklahoma Historical Society (OHS). After the 1995 season all the high schools converted to the five-on-five game. The influence of Henry Iba and Bertha Teague on the sport's national scene is largely underestimated. 1 overall seed and eventual National runner-up Duke in the second round. Jan 5, Tulsa (9-6) Loss vs. Brigham Young, 53-57, 16. The arena opened in 2014 with a Joan Jett and the Blackhearts concert. Outside candidates. It was under Swank that the color barrier was broken in the Tulsa basketball program. Boston, who surpassed Sheila Fosters school career double-double mark earlier this season, broke Fosters career rebounding record of 1,427 that stood for more than four decades. Oklahoma girls' high school basketball also has a long tradition. Bubble Watch 2023: Brace yourself for NCAA tournament drama. Basketball team, Durham, 1917(21622.UA.105, Black Kettle Museum Collection, OHS). The Golden Hurricane beat College of Charleston in the opening round before falling to No. Prior to becoming a sports columnist in 2016, I was the only sports writer in Tulsa World history to have covered OU, OSU, the University of Tulsa and Oral Roberts sports on an everyday basis. The 66ers attracted top talent, and in 1946 former Oklahoma A&M star Bob Kurland joined the team. University of Tulsa Athletics Dec 1, Tulsa (5-0) Win vs. UTSA, 76-59, 7. Won South Regional Semifinal (80-71) versus #6 Miami (FL) Through a Saturday Evening Post article, he helped outlaw goaltending.