Men’s basketball goes 2-0 to start season

The Golden Hurricane beats Ottawa and Northern Illinois to kick off the 2026-27 season. The University of Tulsa men’s basketball team started their season with a pair of wins last week: a 98-50 rout of Ottawa and a 94-75 win over Northern Illinois. It was an excellent start to the season for a team with 10 newcomers, tasked with replacing almost all of the production from TU’s National Invitation Tournament runner-up squad last year. On Monday, Tulsa hosted Ottawa, a National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) school from Kansas in a typical tune-up game to start the season. It is difficult to draw conclusions from these types of games, especially so early in the season, but with so many new players, coach Eric Konkol’s rotation bore close watching. In college basketball, high major teams often play most or all of their players in early games against lower level competition, before shrinking the rotation down to seven or eight players for the conference schedule.

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