The Golden Hurricast

Tulsa men's hoops had the best start to a season since the Bill Self era. However, after losing two (2) more games, many are once again asking if Eric Konkol is the guy for the job. We discuss.

Also:

* Women's basketball has won 5 straight and is 3-0 in The American with Mady Cartwright coming off the game of her life

* The Tulsa Portal House is in full swing

* What's the deal with Ryan Switzer and Kevin Barbay?

Your 2025 S̶p̶o̶t̶i̶f̶y̶ Football Wrapped is here! We revisit our preseason Players of the Year predictions (offense, defense, and breakout), award who actually wins them, and recap the 2025 football season from a high level. Was it a success? How do we evaluate Tre Lamb, Josh Reardon, and the gang in year one? Very fun discussion here.

After that, we talk bowl season + Tulane and JMU in the playoff, men's basketball on a historic run, women's basketball not looking quite as good as we're used to, and more.

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Very fun one this week as we talk the American Conference Football Championship, Tulsa Volleyball heading to the NCAA Tournament (on Thursday!!!), Men's Hoops achieving their highest NET rating EVER, and plenty more. Hope you enjoy it!

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What a week to be a Golden Hurricane!

• Tulsa Volleyball won the American Conference Tournament for the first time ever and is now headed to the NCAA Tournament
• Football beat a solid Army team on the road for Tre Lamb's first conference win
• Men's hoops beat Austin Peay and looks better each week
• Women's hoops crushed a previously undefeated and top-100 Missouri State team.

An incredible week around TU sports makes for a fun episode, and we hope you enjoy this one as much as we did!

Also, Happy Thanksgiving! If you're traveling for the holiday, please travel safe. And if you're not, we hope you have a wonderful few days wherever you are.

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Tulsa football has swept the OSUs thus far. Only one remains in D1 football: Ohio State. Bring on the Buckeyes.

Ryan is back from pheasant hunting + a week long trip to Berlin, and we catch up on what was a big week in Tulsa sports. Football dominated Oregon State, men's hoops is 3-1 and just lost a road nail-biter to Kansas State, and women's hoops is undefeated.

We talk about all of that, then wrap with a roundup of (almost) all the other active sports at TU.

There are only four games left in the football season and every game is a must win. Hosting solo this week Matt breaks down some of the stats behind the FAU matchup and why he thinks Tulsa can come out of the bye with a win.

Additionally he looks at the basketball season opener and the other sports on campus.

Tulsa Football played its best game of the year on Homecoming, but came up just short against a very solid Temple team in dramatic overtime fashion. We talk about the choice to go for two, the play call, the Baylor <-> Brody connection, the growth of the team, and plenty more.

After that, since we've got another bye week coming up, friend of the show J.J. Cody-Fox joins the podcast for our annual "J.J.'s No Sports Zone" segment! Always love chatting with J.J. about anything & everything EXCEPT sports.

Also - it's officially basketball season! The men's team played their exhibition game against East Central University on Tuesday, beating them 94-56, and have their first regular season game next week, so we spend a bit of time on men's hoops as well.

Tulsa Head Men's Basketball Coach Eric Konkol joins the podcast to preview the 2025-26 basketball season!

We break down the roster including all 12 new players, talk the schedule and why it is the way it is, ask what success means for this team, and get into some fun listener questions. Plus a lightning round! Always love having coach on the show and we're grateful for his time.

After that, we recap the ECU loss, take a look around what was a big week for the conference, preview this Saturday's Homecoming game vs a solid Temple team, and round it out with a look across all other active TU sports.

Really fun one this week. Hope you enjoy it!

Second verse, hopefully much better than the first.

Tulsa just wrapped bye #1 on the year and, with that, is past all of the hardest teams on their schedule. ECU is no joke though, checking in at #68 in ESPN's SP+ rankings this week.

To help us preview Thursday night's road game against the Pirates, we welcome in Jared Shafit from The Boneyard Podcast! Always a blast chatting with him.

Also in this episode:

* A quick basketball overview as we get closer to basketball season (full preview coming next week)

* Around the American

* TU sports roundup

First things first: We have a Patreon! It's by far the best way to support this podcast. Ryan just published a new post breaking down how things are going across all 7 active TU fall sports now that we're at the midpoint of the season for most of them. Check it out here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/fall-sports-2025-140596354

On to football. Tulsa had a tough first-half of the season and capped that off with a 45-7 shellacking at the hands of the Memphis Tigers. We discuss what's worth taking away from that game and recap the bright spots: Elijah Green! That one touchdown pass!

But now we are at the first of two bye weeks and the schedule looks a lot more competitive for the Golden Hurricane going forward.

We close things out with a look Around the American and conclude with our fall sports roundup.

Read Ryan's new post on Patreon - Fall Sports Halftime: 2025

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