FARGO, N.D. – Deondre Burns and Kevin Obanor combined for 46 points for ORU but it wasn’t enough Saturday as the Golden Eagles fell at North Dakota State, 76-83. Burns scored 60 percent of the Golden Eagles points in the opening half putting up 21 on 9-of-11 shooting and ended with 26 points. Obanor had…
Oral Roberts University got a career-high 19 points from R.J. Fuqua and 17 second-half points from Deondre Burns for an 86-77 home win over Denver Saturday night inside the Mabee Center. The Golden Eagles led by as many as 19 points during the first half and played more than 34 minutes with a lead, but…
Emmanuel Nzekwesi and Max Abmas combined for 51 points but it wasn’t enough Saturday as ORU (11-9, 4-3 in the Summit Conference) fell to South Dakota (15-8, 6-3), 91-80, Saturday in Vermillion. “Our inability to guard without fouling stood out. They did a good job of getting to the paint and they ended up with…
Emmanuel Nzekwesi had 30 points and 11 rebounds Saturday as ORU (11-8, 4-2 in the Summit League) raced past Purdue Fort Wayne, 92-68, in Fort Wayne, Indiana. “To play well on the road involves a number of guys and our seniors did a great job of setting the tone to get a win in a…
Even though baseball spring training is still a month away, and the Major League and minor league seasons don’t begin for a couple months, this is a great time of year for baseball fans. It’s banquet and caravan season. This is the time of year current and former Major League players have the time in…
Max Abmas and Deondre Burns combined for 46 points as ORU (9-8, 2-2 in the Summit) topped North Dakota State, 88-73, here Saturday. ORU will be at Western Illinois for a 7 p.m. game Thursday and at Purdue Ft. Wayne Saturday for a noon tip off.
Tulane jumped out to a 10-0 lead in the first quarter and staved off a Tulsa comeback to earn a 38-26 win over the Golden Hurricane, in front of 27,417 fans at Yulman Stadium, Saturday in New Orleans. Unfortunately, this game went much like the entire Tulsa season has gone. Tulsa has now trailed at…
The National Day of Prayer is May 2 and some events are scheduled in Tulsa. There will be a service from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at ORU Christ’s Chapel, 7777 S. Lewis Ave. From 6:30-8:30 p.m., there will be a “concert of worship and prayer” at Victory Church, 7700 S. Lewis Ave.
Tulsa author, entrepreneur and columnist Jim Stovall presented a $1 million donation to Oral Roberts University, his alma mater, to help create the Stovall Center for Entrepreneurship. The million dollar donation, plus a $500,000 matching grant, is not the first donation Stovall has made to ORU. “The Stovall Center for Entrepreneurship will enable ORU to…
Some years when I go to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, for the Summit League Basketball Tournament, it’s snowing with temperatures in the teens, and some years, the weather is a bit more tolerable. This year, it was cold, but not too terrible. That also describes how the Oral Roberts University men’s basketball team played. The…