2015-16 Tulane Men's Basketball Media Guide
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2015-16 TULANE MEN’S BASKETBALL 2015-16 TULANE MEN’S BASKETBALL MEDIA GUIDE 2015-16 QUICK FACTS GENERAL INFORMATION HISTORY Location: New Orleans, La. First Year of Basketball: 1905-06 Founded: 1834 All-Time Record: 1186-1208 (.495), 106th season Enrollment: 13,462 Years in NCAA Tournament: 3/1992, 1993, 1995 President: Michael A. Fitts Years in NIT: 6/1982, 1983, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2000 Athletic Director: Rick Dickson Years in CIT: 1/2013 Faculty Athletics Representative: Michael Hogg Years in CBI: 1/2014 Nickname: Green Wave Last Postseason Opponent: Princeton Colors: Olive Green and Sky Blue Result: Lost, 56-55, CBI first round, 2014 Arena: Avron B. Fogelman Arena in Devlin Fieldhouse (4,100) Conference: The American Athletic Conference TEAM INFORMATION Website: www.TulaneGreenWave.com 2015-16 Record: 15-16 (9-9 home, 6-5 away, 0-2 neutral) Conference Record/Finish: 6-12/7th COACHING STAFF Letterwinners Returning/Lost: 4/7 Head Coach: Ed Conroy (Citadel, 1989) Starters Returning/Lost: 2/4 Career Record/Years: 170-214/13th year Redshirts: 3 Record at Tulane: 80-81/5 years Newcomers: 7 Assistant Coaches: Shammmond Williams (North Carolina, 1998), 3rd year ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS Quannas White (Oklahoma, 2004), 2nd year Associate Dir. of Athletics Communications/MBB: Rachel Perreault Anthony Wilkins (Kent State, 2004), 2nd year Office Phone: 504.314.7219 Director of Basketball Operations: Donald Reyes (LSU, 2009), 1st year Cell Phone: 504.495.5251 Coordinator of Video and Player Development: Joey Cantafio Office Fax: 504.865.5379 Athletic Trainer: Alby Lindon Email: [email protected] Strength & Conditioning Coach: Dan Rickaby Press Row Phone: 504.862.8122 Equipment Manager: Gabe Delatte Mailing Address: James W. Wilson Jr. Center Basketball Office Phone: 504.865.5505 Ben Weiner Drive, New Orleans, LA 70118 @GREENWAVEMBB TULANEGREENWAVE /GREENWAVEMBB TULANEGREENWAVE.COM • @GREENWAVEMBB 1 2015-16 TULANE MEN’S BASKETBALL DATE DAY OPPONENT SITE TV TIME 11/05/15 Thurs. Loyola (N.O.) # New Orleans, La. TBA 11/13/15 Fri. Alabama A&M New Orleans, La. ESPN3 8:00 p.m. 11/16/15 Mon. Drake University New Orleans, La. ESPN3 7:00 p.m. 11/19/15 Thurs. at Southern Baton Rouge, La. 7:00 p.m. MUSIC CITY CHALLENGE 11/22/15 Sun. Appalachian State^ New Orleans, La. ESPN3 3:30 p.m. 11/26/15 Thurs. vs. Mercer^ Nashville, Tenn. ASN 7:00 p.m. 11/28/15 Sat. vs. Stephen F. Austin^ Nashville, Tenn. ASN 7:30 p.m. 11/29/15 Sun. vs. Liberty^ Nashville, Tenn. ASN 1:00 p.m. 12/02/15 Wed. New Orleans New Orleans, La. ESPN3 7:00 p.m. 12/05/15 Sat. Georgia Tech New Orleans, La. CBS Sports Network 4:00 p.m. 12/14/15 Mon. Prairie View A&M New Orleans, La. ESPN3 7:00 p.m. 12/16/15 Wed. at North Carolina Chapel Hill, N.C. ESPN2 6:00 p.m. 12/19/15 Sat. at Mississippi State Starkville, Miss. SEC Network 3:00 p.m. 12/22/15 Tues. Southern Miss New Orleans, La. ESPN3 6:00 p.m. 12/29/15 Tues. at Memphis * Memphis, Tenn. ESPNU 11:00 a.m. 1/02/16 Sat. UConn * New Orleans, La. CBS Sports Network 6:30 p.m. 1/05/16 Tues. at Houston * Houston, Texas ESPNU 8:00 p.m. 1/10/16 Sun. Tulsa * New Orleans, La. ESPN3 1:00 p.m. 1/12/16 Tues. at USF * Tampa, Fla. ESPNews 6:00 p.m. 1/17/16 Sun. SMU * New Orleans, La. ESPN3 1:00 p.m. 1/19/16 Tues. at UConn * Hartford, Conn. CBS Sports Network 6:00 p.m. 1/24/16 Sun. at Cincinnati * Cincinnati, Ohio ESPNU 11:00 a.m. 1/27/16 Wed. USF * New Orleans, La. ESPN3 7:00 p.m. 1/30/16 Sat. at Tulsa * Tulsa, Okla. ESPNU 5:00 p.m. 2015-16 SCHEDULE 2/04/16 Thurs. UCF * New Orleans, La. ESPNews 7:00 p.m. 2/10/16 Wed. at East Carolina * Greenville, N.C. ESPNews 5:15 p.m. 2/13/16 Sat. Memphis * New Orleans, La. CBS Sports Network 1:00 p.m. 2/17/16 Wed. Houston * New Orleans, La. ESPNews 8:30 p.m. 2/24/16 Wed. East Carolina * New Orleans, La. ESPNews 7:00 p.m. 2/28/16 Sun. at SMU * Dallas, Texas CBS Sports Network 2:00 p.m. 3/02/16 Wed. at UCF * Orlando, Fla. ESPNews 6:00 p.m. 3/06/16 Sun Temple * New Orleans, La. ESPN3 1:00 p.m. 3/10-13/16 American Athletic Conf. Tounramnet Orlando, Fla. Amway Center TBA All times Central and subject to change; Bold denotes home games; #-exhibition; !-Music City Classic; * The American Athletic Conference game 2 TULANEGREENWAVE.COM • @GREENWAVEMBB 2015-16 TULANE MEN’S BASKETBALL NUMERICAL NO. NAME POS. HT. WT. CL. HOMETOWN/HIGH SCHOOL/PREVIOUS SCHOOL 0 Louis Dabney G 6-3 210 Sr. New Orleans, La./Riverside Academy 2 Taron Oliver F 6-9 310 Fr. District Heights, Md./ Motrose Christian 3 Kajon Mack G 6-3 185 RJr. Los Angeles, Calif./Juniper Serra 4 Riley Conroy G 5-11 175 RFr. New Orleans, La./Jesuit 5 Cameron Reynolds G 6-7 215 RSo. Pearland, Texas/Pearland 10 Von Julien G 6-1 160 Fr. Reserve, La./ Riverside Academy 11 Kain Harris G 6-4 210 Fr. Chicago, Ill./ St. Rita of Cascia 13 Malik Morgan G 6-4 205 RJr. River Ridge, La./John Curtis/ LSU 15 Ryan Smith C 6-11 250 Jr. Wildomar, Calif./Lutheran 21 Dylan Osetkowski F 6-8 255 So. San Diego, Calif./JSerra Catholic 22 Jernard Jarreau F 6-10 235 Gr. New Orleans. La./ McDonogh 35/ Washington 23 Blake Paul F 6-9 230 Fr. New Orleans. La./ Landry-Walker 35 Melvin Frazier G 6-5 200 Fr. Avondale, La./ L.W. Higgins ALPHABETICAL NO. NAME POS. HT. WT. CL. HOMETOWN/HIGH SCHOOL/PREVIOUS SCHOOL 2015-16 ROSTER 4 Riley Conroy G 5-11 175 RFr. New Orleans, La./Jesuit 0 Louis Dabney G 6-3 210 Sr. New Orleans, La./Riverside Academy 35 Melvin Frazier G 6-5 200 Fr. Avondale, La./ L.W. Higgins 11 Kain Harris G 6-4 210 Fr. Chicago, Ill./ St. Rita of Cascia 22 Jernard Jarreau F 6-10 235 Gr. New Orleans, La./ McDonogh 35 10 Von Julien G 6-1 160 Fr. Reserve, La./ Riverside Academy 3 Kajon Mack G 6-3 185 RJr. Los Angeles, Calif./Juniper Serra 13 Malik Morgan G 6-4 205 RJr. River Ridge, La./ John Curtis/ LSU 2 Taron Oliver F 6-9 310 Fr. District Heights, Md./Montrose Christian 21 Dylan Osetkowski C 6-9 255 So. San Diego, Calif./JSerra Catholic 23 Blake Paul F 6-9 230 Fr. New Orleans, La./ Landry-Walker 5 Cameron Reynolds G 6-7 215 RSo. Pearland, Texas/Pearland 15 Ryan Smith C 6-11 250 Jr. Wildomar, Calif./Lutheran HEAD COACH: Ed Conroy (Citadel, 1989), 6th year ASSISTANT COACHES: Shammond Williams (North Carolina, 1998), 3rd year Quannas White (Oklahoma, 2004), 2nd year Anthony Wilkins (Kent State, 2004), 2nd year DIR. OF OPERATIONS: Donald Reyes (LSU, 2009), 1st year DIR. OF VIDEO/PLAYER DEVELOPMENT: Joey Cantafio PRONUNCIATION GUIDE Kajon Mack K-john STRENGTH AND CONDITIONING: Dan Rickaby Dylan Osetkowski Oh-set-COW-skee ATHLETIC TRAINER: Alby Lindon Malik Morgan ma-LEEK Taron Oliver tay-RON EQUIPMENT MANAGER: Gabe Delatte TULANEGREENWAVE.COM • @GREENWAVEMBB 3 2015-16 TULANE MEN’S BASKETBALL ED CONROY HEAD COACH SIXTH SEASON THE CITADEL, 1989 Ed Conroy is in his sixth season at the helm of the Tulane Green Wave earn first-team All-C-USA and the conference’s Freshman of the Year honors. and has guided the Green Wave a 80-81 record during the first four seasons During Conroy’s first season at the helm, Tulane enjoyed a 12-4 start of his tenure. before losing two starters to injury. Conroy also coached the Green Wave to Conroy recently led Tulane to back-to-back postseason appearances the most prolific three-point shooting season in the program’s history, hitting with a trip to the Collegeinsider.com Tournament (CIT) in 2012-13 and to the 230 long range shots, shattering the previous mark of 181 set by the 1995- College Basketball Invitational (CBI) in 2013-14. 96 team. Conroy’s Tulane team also had the highest assist to turnover ratio The 2013-14 campaign was one of Conroy’s best coaching performances (1.098) since the 1983-84 season (1.14) and had the highest three-point field of his career. He led Tulane to a 17-17 overall record and an 8-8 mark in the goal percentage (36.4) since the 1990-91 team’s 38.0 percent. program’s final year in Conference USA with a group that returned only 69 Tulane’s Kendall Timmons enjoyed one of the most successful sophomore starts. The trio of Louis Dabney, freshman All-American Jonathan Stark and seasons in school history in 2010-11 and earned second-team All-Conference Jay Hook each had career-years under Conroy to help send the Green Wave USA and second-team All-District by the NABC. into the postseason. Conroy, formally introduced as the 23rd coach of the Tulane University’s The trio of guards made history during the 2013-14 season. Louis new head men’s basketball coach on April 7, 2010, came to Tulane after a four- Dabney (500), Jonathan Stark (494) and Jay Hook (471) all scored at least 400 points, marking the first time Tulane has had three players with at least 400 points in a season on the same team since the 1995-96 campaign.