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It's interesting to get the perspective from the other side about Tulane's win at Memphis a year ago. The angle is about how the loss sent the Tigers into a tailspin, with some good quotes. Tulane actually looked like the better team that day, with Jonathan Stark's 24-point performance prompting me to tweet he was better than Ricky Tarrant (definitely in the top five of tweets I regret).
Tulane will get a firsthand look at Tarrant tomorrow. He is scoring well, but his shooting has been abysmal. Take out a hot night in a loss to Ole Miss, and he is 26 for 88 from the floor and 9 for 40 from 3-point range.
This does not appear to be a good matchup for Tulane. Memphis has two athletic shot blockers in Shaq Goodwin (eight blocks in the last two games) and four-star freshman Dedric Lawson (10 blocks in the last three), and the Wave's best route to victory usually involves getting the ball inside to Osetkowski and Jarreau, neither of whom has been effective getting his shot off against athletic big men.
Tulane will need big games from Dabney and Morgan, and someone needs to get hot from 3-point range.
Memphis has gotten bad press this year, and it may be deserved, but the Tigers' three losses were to Oklahoma, Ole Miss and UT Arlington, three times with a combined record of 30-4. Before you dismiss UT Arlington, that team also beat Ohio State and took Texas to OT. This would be by far Tulane's best win of the year and by far Memphis' worst loss.
It's interesting to get the perspective from the other side about Tulane's win at Memphis a year ago. The angle is about how the loss sent the Tigers into a tailspin, with some good quotes. Tulane actually looked like the better team that day, with Jonathan Stark's 24-point performance prompting me to tweet he was better than Ricky Tarrant (definitely in the top five of tweets I regret).
Tulane will get a firsthand look at Tarrant tomorrow. He is scoring well, but his shooting has been abysmal. Take out a hot night in a loss to Ole Miss, and he is 26 for 88 from the floor and 9 for 40 from 3-point range.
This does not appear to be a good matchup for Tulane. Memphis has two athletic shot blockers in Shaq Goodwin (eight blocks in the last two games) and four-star freshman Dedric Lawson (10 blocks in the last three), and the Wave's best route to victory usually involves getting the ball inside to Osetkowski and Jarreau, neither of whom has been effective getting his shot off against athletic big men.
Tulane will need big games from Dabney and Morgan, and someone needs to get hot from 3-point range.
Memphis has gotten bad press this year, and it may be deserved, but the Tigers' three losses were to Oklahoma, Ole Miss and UT Arlington, three times with a combined record of 30-4. Before you dismiss UT Arlington, that team also beat Ohio State and took Texas to OT. This would be by far Tulane's best win of the year and by far Memphis' worst loss.