Tulane Green Wave men's basketball
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| University | Tulane University | |||
| Conference | The American | |||
| Location | New Orleans, LA | |||
| Head coach | Mike Dunleavy Sr. (1st year) | |||
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Devlin Fieldhouse (Capacity: 3,600) |
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| Nickname | Green Wave | |||
| Colors | Olive Green and Sky Blue |
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| NCAA Tournament Round of 32 | ||||
| 1992, 1993, 1995 | ||||
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| 1992, 1993, 1995 | ||||
The Tulane Green Wave men's basketball team represents Tulane University in NCAA Division I college basketball. The team competes in the American Athletic Conference. They play home games on campus in Devlin Fieldhouse, the 9th-oldest active basketball venue in the nation. The team's last appearance in the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament was in 1995.
Tulane is the only school from the original Metro Conference that remained in the conference through its 1975 founding, the 1991 breakup that saw several schools form the Great Midwest Conference, the 1995 reunification that created today's Conference USA, and the 2004 realignment of conferences. It rejoined many of its previous conference mates when it became a member of the American Athletic Conference in 2014.
Tulane's men's basketball team played its first game on December 9, 1905.
The program fell victim to one of the biggest scandals of the 1980s in college sports when four players, including star forward "Hot Rod" Williams, were accused of taking money and cocaine to alter the final point spreads of games they played in. Clyde Eads and Jon Johnson were granted immunity to testify against Williams, the alleged ringleader. Although he was indicted, the judge eventually declared a mistrial, and no sentence was handed down. Williams spent the next nine years with the NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers. Within days of Williams' indictment, the entire basketball coaching staff and the athletic director resigned. Shortly afterward school president Eamon Kelly disbanded the basketball program. He didn't intend to ever allow its return but relented in 1988 after several students convinced him that they were being punished for something that occurred when they weren't at Tulane.
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