The UH men’s basketball team pulled away late and knocked off Tulane with an 81-67 road victory on Wednesday.
The Cougars now improve to 23-4 on the year with a 12-2 record in conference play, keeping them atop the American Athletic Conference standings.
Both teams had a slow start to the game as graduate forward Fabian White Jr. scored the first seven points of the game for the Cougars.
Two fouls in the first 1:49 of the game by graduate forward Josh Carlton pushed him into early foul trouble and kept him out of the rest of the first half.