Fast Break Points
• Tulsa is in its 108th season of basketball and fifth season in the American Athletic Conference.
• Tulsa will open play at the American Athletic Conference Championship when it will face 10th-seeded SMU at 7 p.m. on Thursday, March 14 at FedExForum in Memphis.
• Thursday's matchup marks the 53rd all-time meeting between Tulsa and SMU. The Golden Hurricane lead the all-time series, 32-20. This will be just the third postseason meeting between the teams. TU defeated SMU in the 1955 NCAA Tournament, while the Mustangs topped the Hurricane in the first round of the 2004 WAC Tournament.