The Golden Hurricast

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

We're getting awfully close to conference tournament time, and it's crunch time for both the men's & women's basketball teams.

We discuss:

• A listener question on whether the team is holding back, checking out, or neither of those
• The tough 3-game losing steak the men slid down, followed by two nice wins over Charlotte & UTSA
• This week's big road game at Tulane
• The women's equally odd losing streak, followed by a crazy comeback win over UAB
• This week's tough stretch at home vs Tulane and then on the road at the top dog Rice
• Women's golf continues to be solid
• Men's & women's tennis both having disappointing starts
• Softball's turnaround (?)

Chapters:

00:00 - Intro

03:57 - Listener Question - Is the team holding back, checking out, or neither of those?

09:10 - Men's Hoops Recap

29:13 - Men's Hoops Preview

36:40 - Women's Hoops Recap

45:26 - Women's Hoops Preview

52:27 - Women's Golf

54:04 - Women's Tennis

57:17 - Men's Tennis

01:00:09 - Softball

01:06:08 - Outro

The men’s basketball team returns from the Florida road trip 1-1, surviving against FAU before tripping up against USF for the second time this season. Meanwhile the women’s team returned to 1-1 form this past week before heading out for their own Florida road trip.

We talk all of this + more!

00:00 - Intro

00:30 - Florida Trippin’ - Men’s Basketball Recap

27:36 - Last Resume Chance for Resume Building - Men’s Basketball Preview

35:04 - Back to 1-1: Women’s Basketball Recap

43:41 - Florida Trippin’ Part 2 - Women’s Basketball Preview

49:32 - Richardson at the Shrine Bowl

50:36 - Spring Sports Roundup

The Tulsa men have won 6 straight games by an average of 14 points and are playing their best ball of the season, but the most important week of the regular season looms large. A Florida road trip against two of the best teams in the league: FAU (a Tier B opportunity on KenPom) and USF (Tier A).

We recap Tulsa's big home wins over North Texas and Wichita State before previewing the huge week in front of us.

After that, we talk women's hoops, ask what happened to the Havoc in the Heartland, and recap all of the other active sports happening at TU right now.

Chapters:

0:00 - Intro

01:23 - Men's Hoops Recap

24:31 - Men's Hoops Preview

41:27 - Women's Hoops Recap

51:01 - Women's Hoops Preview

53:04 - What Happened to Havoc in the Heartland?

55:17 - Football Notes

56:09 - Women's Golf

58:20 - Men's Tennis

01:00:34 - Women's Tennis

01:03:18 - Softball

01:05:09 - Outro

Matt is back from vacation so it is time to talk some hoops! The men have played a dominant four-game stretch with wins over Charlotte, UAB, Memphis and Rice, showing there was no need to start panicking after dropping two in a row to UNT and USF. We talk most about the Memphis and Rice wins, Memphis tears, and the big stretch the team has coming up (UNT, WSU x2 and USF).

The women are back to trading off wins and losses, dropping a game against Rice at home before grinding out a tough win on the road against UNT. Fortunately they have a chance to get two home wins when they host FAU and Memphis this week.

We also talk some portal updates, tennis and women’s golf.