Game 10- Tulane

[clarkwgriswold]

The Zips head to New Orleans Saturday to face the 6-2 Tulane Green Wave. 

 

The Green Wave was chosen to finish 3rd in the AAC preseason poll.  Redshirt junior guard Rowan Brumbaugh was chosen as the AAC preseason player of the year.  Asher Woods, a senior guard was named to the second team.  Brumbaugh leads Tulane at 19.1 ppg and averages 4.5 rpg.  Curtis Williams, a 6’6” junior guard and Georgetown transfer is second in scoring at 15 ppg while leading the team in rebounding at 5.8 rpg.  Woods averages 11 ppg.  On defense the Green Wave plays zone 40 minutes a game.  They average 76 points per game.

[Let'sGoZips94]

This one is big. Tulane is only 228 NET, but that will rise. They have Akron (42 NET) and UC San Diego (63 NET) as the big challenges left in their OOC. Add those and their AAC schedule (Tulsa, USF, Wichita St, Memphis, FAU, etc.) and this could end up being a Q2 opportunity since it's on the road. They are 8 deep and tall/long although a lot of their scoring production comes from the 6'3"-6'6" portion of their roster. 

 

Need to win this to help establish our legitimacy. Cannot be looking ahead to Vegas. 

[ZipsFan31]

This game, Yale, SBC road game are our 3 biggest winnable non conference games. 0-1 so far. Must win if we want an 11 seed 

[Let'sGoZips94]

1 hour ago, ZipsFan31 said:

This game, Yale, SBC road game are our 3 biggest winnable non conference games. 0-1 so far. Must win if we want an 11 seed 

 

Don't forget Murray State. 

[csims0917]

Desperately need quality OOC road games. It’s what we are missing every year. Princeton, Bradley, Milwaukee, UNLV, the list goes on. Tulane doesn’t score at will so I’m hoping to see the defense look a lot better

[Reslife4Life]

4pm tip. Freeze your butt off at soccer at 1, drive home to watch some hoops under 3 blankets at 4. Sounds like a great saturday

[clarkwgriswold]

It will be interesting to see how the Zips handle the Tulane match up zone.  The Zips often seem to have trouble in initially adjusting to a zone.  The Tulane zone is different than what they've faced.  I hope they can adjust quickly to it rather than get off to a slow start. 

[Let'sGoZips94]

43 minutes ago, clarkwgriswold said:

It will be interesting to see how the Zips handle the Tulane match up zone.  The Zips often seem to have trouble in initially adjusting to a zone.  The Tulane zone is different than what they've faced.  I hope they can adjust quickly to it rather than get off to a slow start. 

 

The good news is most zones are mid game adjustments by the opponent, not necessarily their identity. The Zips have several days to fully prepare which should help. 

 

Just read Tulane's board. They want their coach fired yesterday. Here's to hoping we can help get that wish to the finish line! Apparently their coach is Ron Hunter. He's an Ohio native who played 4 years at Miami OH in the 80s.

Edited 30 minutes ago by Let'sGoZips94