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In the ruthless world of college basketball, sometimes you need to get punched in the mouth to remember who you are. Tulane got decked — hard — by in-city rival UNO on November 14. 85–63 at home. On Homecoming. In front of everybody. The kind of loss that makes group chats explode and recruiting calls awkward.
Fast-forward three weeks: the Green Wave are 6-2 and have won four straight games decided by single digits. They’ve come back from second-half deficits in every single one of those wins. That’s not luck. That’s a team that decided the season wouldn’t end in Devlin Fieldhouse that night.
— Ron Hunter, still not over it (and that’s a good thing)
UNO shot 54% from the floor and 54% from three. Benson Coleton dropped a casual 33-piece like he was playing 2K on rookie. Tulane shot 11% from deep and got outrebounded 40–23. It was the third straight year the Privateers — a Southland Conference program — walked into uptown and left with the Green Wave’s lunch money.
But here’s the thing nobody’s talking about enough: that loss lit a fuse.
Since then:
- 93–90 OT thriller over Boston College (Curtis Williams Jr. 32 pts, 9 reb)
- 17–0 second-half run to smoke Nicholls 82–72
- Road grind-out 66–62 at Louisiana
- And tonight — a 65–63 escape against Grambling sealed by Rowan Brumbaugh ice-water free throws
Five straight wins with a second-half comeback. Five straight games where someone had to make a play when it hurt. That’s the DNA of a team that’s going somewhere in March.
Curtis Williams Jr. looks like an All-AAC lock. Rowan Brumbaugh is attacking the rim like he’s got something to prove every possession. Asher Woods and Josiah Moore are bringing the kind of defensive energy that flips games in two minutes.
The AAC schedule is coming. USF. FAU. Memphis. The gauntlet. But right now Tulane isn’t hoping to be tough — they’ve already proven they are.
The UNO loss still stings. Good. Let it sting. Because the Green Wave that’s showing up now isn’t the same team that got embarrassed three weeks ago.
They’re battle-tested. They’re hungry. And they’re just getting started.
Roll Wave.
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