Tulane men's basketball doesn't take the court again until Feb. 23 against a fairly horrific Rice team. So in the meantime, it's worth taking a look at where the team is, at this stage, compared to previous years.
At 17-9 with five games left in the regular season, it is clear that the Green Wave came back to earth after a dominant non-conference season against weak teams. We all knew that would happen, at some level.
That said, four of the last five games this year are against teams in the bottom half of the Conference USA standings: Rice, UAB, Houston, and East Carolina. The fifth game will feature Tulsa, a team Tulane already beat on the road.
If Tulane were to finish 3-2, this would give the Green Wave a 20-win season, a feat that the team hasn't achieved since 1999. Yep. Take that in. No Tulane squad achieved 20 or more wins in the first decade of this millenium.
Worse yet, in that span, no Tulane team achieved more than 17 wins in a single season. As a result, with five games remaining, the Green Wave has already tied its best mark in quite a while... Here's a breakdown of Tulane's record, all-time.
Wow. While there is certainly more work to be done, it is evident that Tulane is heading in a different direction as it prepares for Big East entry in 2014. And of course, that's good news.
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