Tulsa escaped Huntsville with the win and their first 2-0 start to the season since 2015. There are some things to work on this week against East Texas A&M before heading to Arkansas next week.

Matt talks about this and more this week.

Note* this episode is shorter than usual and only included football. We will be back to regular programming next week.

Tre Lamb is a legend and we are all witnesses.

Tulsa just beat Oklahoma State in back-to-back seasons for the first time since 1951-1952, and this time we got to do it at home in Tulsa. It was a beatdown and easily could've been an even larger margin of victory than the 24-10 win it was.

We have fun recapping the win over OSU and hand out our players of the game awards before moving on to Sam Houston.

To preview the Sam Houston Bearkats, we welcome in Collin Neill from Sam Houston SportsTalk! Collin was great and we learned a lot about the Bearkats in this one. Kickoff is on Saturday at 6:00 PM central.

To round things out, we take a look Around the American before running down the rest of the active TU sports - including a brief preview of the return of the Tulsa Men's Golf program! Excited to see how they do at the CSU Ram Masters in their debut.

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Timestamps:

0:00 - Intro

0:37 - Oklahoma State Recap

9:59 - Potentially Nine-and-Three

16:47 - Offensive Recap

21:52 - Running Backs

28:21 - Tackling and Penalties

36:00 - Injuries

37:03 - Players of the Game

45:17 - Special Teams

52:14 - Sam Houston Preview ft Collin Neill of Sam Houston SportsTalk

1:39:55 - Interview Thoughts

1:47:00 - Around the American

2:00:45 - Men's Soccer

2:03:12 - Women's Soccer

2:05:17 - Volleyball

2:09:34 - Men's & Women's Golf

2:15:33 - Cross Country

2:19:14 - Outro

It's our 2026 Tulsa Football Season mega preview! We dig deep into this year's squad and also preview Oklahoma State with Calvin Alexander from The CGA Tour.

2026 Season Preview:

• Year 2 for Tre Lamb and staff changes
• Who's gone? Who's back? Who's new?
• The running back room is loaded and might be the best in the G6
• Baylor Hayes and Dexter Williams at QB
• The WR room is basically entirely new
• The gang's back together on the OL
• DL is the sleeper best group on the team
• Chris Thompson Jr, Dax Collins, Sam Stone, and a fun LB group
• Elijah Green is out, but the secondary is deep
• There are 4 Williams'es on defense (two safeties, STAR, and corner)
• Special teams is rebuilt from the ground up
• Schedule breakdown and record predictions
• Players of the Year and Breakout Player picks

We then switch over to welcome in Calvin Alexander from The CGA Tour to help us preview Oklahoma State for this Saturday's home opener against the Cowboys in Tulsa.

Then we return to round out the episode with:

• Around the American (conference preview)
• Other sports roundup

Hope you enjoy it!

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Chapters:

0:00 - Intro

6:25 - High Level & Tre Lamb Year 2

15:15 - Roster Turnover

20:51 - Running Backs

27:24 - Quarterbacks

33:28 - Receivers & TEs

37:52 - Offensive Line

42:10 - Transition to Defense

44:04 - Defensive Line

47:25 - Linebackers

50:02 - Secondary

54:45 - Special Teams

59:08 - Schedule & Record Predictions

1:07:59 - Players of the Year & Breakout Picks

1:20:40 - Okahoma State Preview w/ Calvin Alexander

2:12:59 - American Conference Preview

2:21:52 - Men's Soccer

2:25:06 - Women's Soccer

2:28:18 - Volleyball

2:30:43 - Other Sports

2:35:01 - Outro

Stacy Leeds, the new University of Tulsa President, joins the Hurricast to kick off Season 9! We discuss:

• Her sports background (she was a two-sport collegiate athlete!)

• The big tuition cut news

• Enrollment goals

• The threat of dropping football

• What athletics means to TU

• Athletic department spending

• Being Tulsa's Team

  
  

We so enjoyed meeting and talking to President Leeds, and hope you enjoy it too.

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Chapters

0:00 - Intro

5:44 - Meet President Stacy Leeds

12:43 - TU Tuition News

30:59 - Future of TU Athletics

39:30 - No, TU Isn't Dropping Football

43:00 - Basketball and Volleyball Success

48:45 - Adding Sports

52:30 - Upcoming Football Season

1:00:11 - Lightning Round

1:01:46 - Reflecting on the Interview

1:06:33 - Outro

In our final regular episode for the season we do a deep review on the men and women’s basketball seasons, handout some awards, talk conference championships (including how Tulsa is the best school in the conference) and more!

Chapters

0:00 - Intro

3:14 - Men’s Basketball - Season in Review

24:30 - Men’s Basketball - End of Season Awards

46:29 - Men’s Basketball - Transfer Portal Updates

1:10:30 - Women’s Basketball - Season in Review

1:21:20 - Women’s Basketball - End of Season Awards

1:27:35 - Women’s Basketball - Transfer Portal Updates

1:34:00 - Women’s Golf - Conference Champion #1

1:36:19 - Men’s Tennis - Conference Champion #2

1:41:19 - Women’s Tennis - Season Recap

1:43:48 - Softball - Season Update

1:47:03 - Finale Thoughts + Outro

Tulsa beat New Mexico in the NIT semis to hit 30 wins for the 2nd time in program history, and will now take on the SEC's Auburn Tigers for the NIT Championship.

To preview Auburn, we welcome in Zac Blackerby from the Locked On Auburn podcast. We get into all kinds of stuff:

• Vibes around Steven Pearl & the decision to even accept the NIT bid

• The road win over Florida and subsequent collapse

• Auburn's poor three-point defense vs our elite three-point offense

• Keyshawn Hall, Tahaad Pettiford, Kevin Overton, Filip Jovic, and more personnel

• The stylistic matchup we've got coming in this one

• Tempo & turnovers

• More

Zac was awesome. I really enjoyed talking with him. Can't wait for this game! Let's win us a title.

Reign Cane 🌀

Chapters:

00:00 - Intro

02:29 - Auburn Preview with Zac Blackerby

39:11 - Outro

The Tulsa men are in the NIT Final Four and are closing in on their first NIT Championship since 2001. Standing in their way are the New Mexico Lobos in the semifinals on Thursday at 6:00 PM central at Hinkle Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. The winner gets Auburn or Illinois State in the championship game at Gainbridge Fieldhouse (also in Indy).

In this one, I preview New Mexico before airing our guest appearance on The Pit Press Podcast where we previewed Tulsa for New Mexico fans.

Hope you enjoy it! Can't wait for Thursday night.

Tulsa fell to Wichita State 68-81 in the American Championship semifinals after losing David Green to injury and Tyler Behrend to fouling out while Kenyon Giles went supernova for the Shockers.

HOWEVER, Tulsa received a 1-seed in the NIT the very next day and will host Stephen F. Austin in the Reynolds Center in the first round on TUESDAY! That's today, at time of publishing. It's the Tulsa men's first postseason bid of any kind since 2016. Can't wait.

Matt's out, so it's just me for this one. I recap the conference tournament for the men & women, preview the NIT for the men, and briefly discuss the unfortunate end of the season for the women.

I also have a new article out on Patreon about savoring this extremely fun season while acknowledging questions about the defense & the coach. Check that out here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/savor-it-153116361?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

Chapters:

00:00 - Intro

00:49 - New Article on Patreon

02:10 - Tulsa is a 1-seed in the NIT

03:15 - Men's Conference Tournament Recap

11:50 - NIT Preview

21:10 - Women's Conference Tournament Recap

26:45 - Patreon Reminder

27:56 - Outro

It's conference tournament time! We get into all kinds of stuff in this one, including:

• Last week's final games of the regular season including senior day
• The historic regular season for the men's team
• All-Conference awards for the men & women
• American Conference Tournament previews
• A very fun listener question to debate
• All other active TU sports (women's golf, men's & women's tennis, and softball)

Chapters:

00:00 - Intro

00:26 - It's Conference Tournament Time

03:34 - A Historic Regular Season for Men's Hoops

06:07 - Men's Hoops ECU Road Win

08:14 - Men's Hoops Senior Day Win over UTSA

14:44 - Men's All-Conference Team

18:19 - Men's Conference Tournament Preview

27:57 - Women's Hoops Road Win at UTSA

30:15 - Women's Hoops Senior Day Loss vs ECU

33:57 - Women's All-Conference Team

36:17 - Women's Conference Tournament Preview

40:21 - Win the NIT or Lose 1st Round NCAA?

48:47 - Ryan Switzer -> Oregon

50:17 - Women's Golf

53:36 - Women's Tennis

55:05 - Men's Tennis

57:02 - Softball

01:00:17 - Outro

Both basketball teams are entering the final week of the regular season. The men are hoping for a WSU stumble to slide back into the two seed, while the women are trying to get an extra bye at the four seed. Even with everyone looking ahead to the conference tournament, the last games are still important for seeding.

We also talk Legend’s Day, quiz Ryan on some mascot trivia, talk early thoughts on football schedule, do our spring sport recap, and more.

00:00 - Intro + Legacy Day

05:46 - Men’s Basketball Recap

20:37 - Last Week! - Men’s Preview

45:06 - Women’s Basketball Recap

51:40 - Fighting for the Four Seed

58:45 - Football Schedule Talk

01:05:09 - Spring Sport Recap