The Tulane Green Wave basketball team has a bit of momentum in conference play as they look to beat the Mean Green in a rematch.
The Tulane Green Wave men’s basketball team has had a bit of a wild 2025-26 campaign, to say the least. After a multi-game losing streak that skidded all momentum in American conference play, the Green Wave pulled off a major upset against the Memphis Tigers that seemed to spark a late-season comeback for the squad as they look to make a push at the league tournament. They’ve won two of their last three and aim to win their third straight on the road against the North Texas Mean Green – four days after winning their road rematch against the UAB Blazers. Tulane dropped the previous contest 63-71 against the Mean Green at home on Jan. 18 and will look to get one back on Thursday night at 8 p.m. at Devlin Fieldhouse.
In that first loss, North Texas held the Green Wave to a mere 31.3 shooting percentage and a season-worst 7-of-24 shooting from the field. It was also a season-best for the Mean Green. That will need to be a flipped switch in this second contest, one that will feature a Tulane squad playing much more in sync with each other than they did one month ago. The game is critical both teams. The Green Wave sit at 15-10, 6-6 in American while North Texas enters 15-11 and 6-7 in American. Both are looking to move into tournament contention in the American standings. Tulane is currently No. 8 in a close race. Every game from here on out is massive.
But as the Green Wave ride a hot streak, so do the Mean Green, who have won three straight contests. Even worse, Tulane has yet to beat North Texas since they joined the American in 2023-24, with the Mean Green sitting 5-0 above the Green Wave. Hopefully the sixth contest is different as Tulane looks like a bit of a different team in this late stretch. They flipped the script on the Blazers in their 55-54 victory in Birmingham on Feb. 15, holding them to season lows in points and field goals made and limiting them to their worst three-point shooting percentage.
The Green Wave struggled to get into their offensive sets against North Texas in the January loss, and they’ll need that to change this time. They’re coming off that win over UAB in which three players hit double figures; Rowan Brumbaugh led the team with 17 points, followed by 14 points from Asher Woods and 12 from Scotty Middleton. It improved Tulane to a 5-2 record on the road and a 4-2 mark in conference play. Brumbaugh has led the change for the Wave on the road this season, averaging 22 points per game while shooting 52.2 percent from the floor and 44.4 percent from three. It’ll be a crucial one for the Wave to score a slot in the conference tournament in Birmingham, Alabama.