The Golden Hurricast

In our final regular episode for the season we do a deep review on the men and women’s basketball seasons, handout some awards, talk conference championships (including how Tulsa is the best school in the conference) and more! Chapters 0:00 - Intro 3:14 - Men’s Basketball - Season in Review 24:30 - Men’s Basketball - End of Season Awards 46:29 - Men’s Basketball - Transfer Portal Updates 1:10:30 -...

Tulsa beat New Mexico in the NIT semis to hit 30 wins for the 2nd time in program history, and will now take on the SEC's Auburn Tigers for the NIT Championship. To preview Auburn, we welcome in Zac Blackerby from the Locked On Auburn podcast. We get into all kinds of stuff: Vibes around Steven Pearl & the decision to even accept the NIT bid The road win over Florida and subsequent collaps...

The Tulsa men are in the NIT Final Four and are closing in on their first NIT Championship since 2001. Standing in their way are the New Mexico Lobos in the semifinals on Thursday at 6:00 PM central at Hinkle Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. The winner gets Auburn or Illinois State in the championship game at Gainbridge Fieldhouse (also in Indy). In this one, I preview New Mexico before airing our gues...

Tulsa fell to Wichita State 68-81 in the American Championship semifinals after losing David Green to injury and Tyler Behrend to fouling out while Kenyon Giles went supernova for the Shockers. HOWEVER, Tulsa received a 1-seed in the NIT the very next day and will host Stephen F. Austin in the Reynolds Center in the first round on TUESDAY! That's today, at time of publishing. It's the Tuls...

It's conference tournament time! We get into all kinds of stuff in this one, including: Last week's final games of the regular season including senior day The historic regular season for the men's team All-Conference awards for the men & women American Conference Tournament previews A very fun listener question to debate All other active TU sports (women's golf, men's &...

Both basketball teams are entering the final week of the regular season. The men are hoping for a WSU stumble to slide back into the two seed, while the women are trying to get an extra bye at the four seed. Even with everyone looking ahead to the conference tournament, the last games are still important for seeding. We also talk Legend’s Day, quiz Ryan on some mascot trivia, talk early thoughts o...

We're getting awfully close to conference tournament time, and it's crunch time for both the men's & women's basketball teams. We discuss: A listener question on whether the team is holding back, checking out, or neither of those The tough 3-game losing steak the men slid down, followed by two nice wins over Charlotte & UTSA This week's big road game at Tulane The women...

The men’s basketball team returns from the Florida road trip 1-1, surviving against FAU before tripping up against USF for the second time this season. Meanwhile the women’s team returned to 1-1 form this past week before heading out for their own Florida road trip. We talk all of this + more! 00:00 - Intro 00:30 - Florida Trippin’ - Men’s Basketball Recap 27:36 - Last Resume Chance for Resume Bui...

The Tulsa men have won 6 straight games by an average of 14 points and are playing their best ball of the season, but the most important week of the regular season looms large. A Florida road trip against two of the best teams in the league: FAU (a Tier B opportunity on KenPom) and USF (Tier A). We recap Tulsa's big home wins over North Texas and Wichita State before previewing the huge week i...

Matt is back from vacation so it is time to talk some hoops! The men have played a dominant four-game stretch with wins over Charlotte, UAB, Memphis and Rice, showing there was no need to start panicking after dropping two in a row to UNT and USF. We talk most about the Memphis and Rice wins, Memphis tears, and the big stretch the team has coming up (UNT, WSU x2 and USF). The women are back to tra...

Tulsa men's hoops had the best start to a season since the Bill Self era. However, after losing two (2) more games, many are once again asking if Eric Konkol is the guy for the job. We discuss. Also: * Women's basketball has won 5 straight and is 3-0 in The American with Mady Cartwright coming off the game of her life * The Tulsa Portal House is in full swing * What's the deal with Rya...

Your 2025 S̶p̶o̶t̶i̶f̶y̶ Football Wrapped is here! We revisit our preseason Players of the Year predictions (offense, defense, and breakout), award who actually wins them, and recap the 2025 football season from a high level. Was it a success? How do we evaluate Tre Lamb, Josh Reardon, and the gang in year one? Very fun discussion here. After that, we talk bowl season + Tulane and JMU in the playo...

Very fun one this week as we talk the American Conference Football Championship, Tulsa Volleyball heading to the NCAA Tournament (on Thursday!!!), Men's Hoops achieving their highest NET rating EVER, and plenty more. Hope you enjoy it! Support the podcast on Patreon: https://patreon.com/thegoldenhurricast

What a week to be a Golden Hurricane! Tulsa Volleyball won the American Conference Tournament for the first time ever and is now headed to the NCAA Tournament Football beat a solid Army team on the road for Tre Lamb's first conference win Men's hoops beat Austin Peay and looks better each week Women's hoops crushed a previously undefeated and top-100 Missouri State team. An incredible...

Tulsa football has swept the OSUs thus far. Only one remains in D1 football: Ohio State. Bring on the Buckeyes. Ryan is back from pheasant hunting + a week long trip to Berlin, and we catch up on what was a big week in Tulsa sports. Football dominated Oregon State, men's hoops is 3-1 and just lost a road nail-biter to Kansas State, and women's hoops is undefeated. We talk about all of that...

There are only four games left in the football season and every game is a must win. Hosting solo this week Matt breaks down some of the stats behind the FAU matchup and why he thinks Tulsa can come out of the bye with a win. Additionally he looks at the basketball season opener and the other sports on campus.

Tulsa Football played its best game of the year on Homecoming, but came up just short against a very solid Temple team in dramatic overtime fashion. We talk about the choice to go for two, the play call, the Baylor <-> Brody connection, the growth of the team, and plenty more. After that, since we've got another bye week coming up, friend of the show J.J. Cody-Fox joins the podcast for o...

Tulsa Head Men's Basketball Coach Eric Konkol joins the podcast to preview the 2025-26 basketball season! We break down the roster including all 12 new players, talk the schedule and why it is the way it is, ask what success means for this team, and get into some fun listener questions. Plus a lightning round! Always love having coach on the show and we're grateful for his time. After that...

Second verse, hopefully much better than the first. Tulsa just wrapped bye #1 on the year and, with that, is past all of the hardest teams on their schedule. ECU is no joke though, checking in at #68 in ESPN's SP+ rankings this week. To help us preview Thursday night's road game against the Pirates, we welcome in Jared Shafit from The Boneyard Podcast ! Always a blast chatting with him. Al...

First things first: We have a Patreon ! It's by far the best way to support this podcast. Ryan just published a new post breaking down how things are going across all 7 active TU fall sports now that we're at the midpoint of the season for most of them. Check it out here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/fall-sports-2025-140596354 On to football. Tulsa had a tough first-half of the season and...

After the historic win over Oklahoma State, Tulsa came back down to earth with Saturday’s loss to Tulane in the Battle of the Color-Based Water Phenomena. We do our best to break down the game (having not been able to watch it in its entirety) and talk what’s next for the football team this season. After that, we talk about some breaking news in the athletic department, look forward to Saturday&#3...

For the first time since November 3, 1951, Tulsa went into Stillwater and came away with a road win against Oklahoma State. That's the kind of program-changing, culture-building win head coach Tre Lamb has been looking for in his first season. "New Tulsa" might be just be here after all. For the first time ever on the show, we bring in a guest to help us RECAP a Tulsa game! Phillip S...

Tulsa forced 3 turnovers in Navy's first 3 possessions to go up 14-0, but TU couldn't keep up the momentum and the Navy train rolled right over us for the rest of the game. We discuss the awesome start from the defense, Baylor Hayes, the lack of a deep ball so far, and more before awarding our players of the game and taking a look around what continues to be an incredible start for The Ame...

Tulsa Football followed a hot game 1 against Abilene Christian with a disappointing road performance at New Mexico State. However, as we discuss, you can definitely still find plenty of reasons for optimism going forward. Can the team get their swagger back in their American Conference opener at home vs Navy this Saturday? We will see. To learn more about this year's Midshipmen, we welcome in Mike...

The Tre Lamb era kicked off at home with a resounding 35-7 victory over the #16 FCS team in the country in Abilene Christian. Can TU keep the momentum going and go get a road win at New Mexico State? To help us preview the Aggies, we welcome in Nick Coppola from the Las Cruces Sun-News. In this one, we: * Recap the Abilene Christian win, especially the two fourth down stops and Angus Davies' 8...