Mens Basketball 51, Buffalo 65

Tongiht, Tulane started their two-game road trip with a loss to the University of Buffalo, 65-51 dropping their record to 3-2. This was their second straight loss, as they lost at home to the University of New Orleans 74-67. Tulane had a miserable night offensivly, shooting 34% from the field and committing 16 turnovers. Not one player had it going offensively, and on a team that is so deep, it is very surprising. Against a weak opponent like Buffalo, you would figure someone would step.

Tulane is showing a troubling trend of getting off to slow starts. Against Nichols State, Tulane was down 16-4 before blowing them out. Against New Orleans, Tulane was down by as much as 17 points, trailing 51-34. Against Buffalo tongiht, by halftime they were already down 37-20. If Tulane is going to consistently be putting itslef in a hole like this, they are going to struggle winning games. Buffalo is by no means a good team. Tulane beat Buffalo 80-63 last year. For Tulane to come out looking this flat is just unacceptable.

Player of the Game: None

While David Gomez put in a solid game tonight if you look at the box score, with 13 points and 6 rebounds, he is supposed to the star of this team. Non surpisingly, David Gomez was only 2-6 in the first half which is when Tulane only managed an embarrassing 20 points. Gomez should be killing weak teams such as Buffalo and the team really needed him to step up in the first half. Yet Gomez was nowhere to be found.

Stat of the Game: .182

That was Tulane's 3-point field-goal percentage. That is just attrocious. Up until then, Tulane had been shooting the three reasonably well. Tulane will be hard pressed to beat any team though shooting this poorly, regardless of how bad they are.