Guard Sidney Love has averaged 16.5 points on 51.9 percent shooting from the field during the Roadrunners’ four-game winning streak. – File photo by Joe Alexander
By Jerry Briggs
Special for The JB Replay
With another milestone in reach, the UTSA Roadrunners will play an American Athletic Conference game on the road today against Delanie Crawford and the Tulsa Golden Hurricane.
The Roadrunners (11-2, 2-0) will try for a victory that not only would give them their fifth in a row, but also would result in the fastest start after 14 games in school history.
Tipoff is at 2 p.m. at the Reynolds Center in Tulsa, with the game against the Golden Hurricane (7-7, 1-1) set for telecast on ESPN+. UTSA has been busy this week, winning on the road Sunday at Charlotte and on Wednesday at home against UAB.
Taking the floor today, the Roadrunners will also have a score to settle. The Golden Hurricane beat the Roadrunners last year in Tulsa by erasing a 13-point deficit in the fourth quarter to win, 74-70.
The Golden Hurricane went on to win 25 games on the season, including finishing in a three-way tie for first in the American and earning a postseason bid to the Women’s Basketball Invitational.
Crawford, a 5-11 senior, is one of the hottest players in the conference at the moment. After scoring 36 points in a home win against East Carolina on Sunday, she added 22 in Tulsa’s 84-78 loss at North Texas on Wednesday night.
Records
Tulsa 7-7, 1-1
UTSA 11-2, 2-0
Coming up
Rice at UTSA, Wednesday, 6:30 p.m.
Wichita State at UTSA, Jan. 11, noon
Notable
Later today, the UTSA men (6-6) will open their conference schedule in New Orleans against the Tulane Green Wave (7-7, 1-0). Roadrunners guard Primo Spears ranks fifth in the nation at 22.2 points per game.
The game, which tips off at 5 p.m. on ESPNU, is a homecoming of sorts for Roadrunners coach Austin Claunch and guard Tai’Reon Joseph.
Claunch once lived in New Orleans for a few years and coached at nearby Nicholls State, where he led the Colonels to a pair of regular-season titles in the Southland Conference.
Joseph grew up in Baton Rouge and played there last season at Southern University.