“Today, we are elated to launch a renaissance across Tulsa Golden Hurricane men’s basketball.”

TU introduced new head men’s basketball coach Eric Konkol. who spent seven seasons as head coach at Louisiana Tech, one year ago today.

TU President Brad Carson said the hiring of Konkol, 45, to succeed Frank Haith as head coach was the beginning of a new era for TU basketball, alluding to campus improvements over the past year.

“The connection of the past and the future is the very nature of what historians might call a renaissance, linking what was with what can be. We take our best traditions and we remold them for the future,” Carson said. “This year is the start of that renaissance for the University of Tulsa.