TULSA, Okla. — The University of Tulsa men's basketball team will open play at the Aaron's American Athletic Conference Championship, held at the Amway Center in Orlando, Fla., at 1 p.m. (CT) on Friday, March 9 against either Memphis or USF.
The Golden Hurricane (19-11) earned the tournament's No. 4 seed with a 12-6 league mark and it closed the regular-season last week with wins over ECU and Temple. This is the third time in four tournament appearances that TU has earned a first-round bye and the squad will face either the fifth-seeded Tigers (19-12) or the No.