By coach Ron Hunter’s reckoning, the Tulane men’s basketball team has played four good halves out of six in its three biggest tests of the year.

The other two halves reflected the total lack of consistency the Green Wave (7-3) 8 has exhibited as is learns to play without center Gregg Glenn while working in three key transfers. Hunter is not sure which group will show up Saturday night at 11 in Las Vegas for test No. 4 against 2025 NCAA tournament participant UC San Diego (8-1) in a standalone game at the Jack Jones Classic.

UC San Diego, which went 30-5 last season and nearly upset Michigan in the first round of the South Region, was picked fourth in the Big West after losing its top six scorers and coach Eric Olen (to New Mexico). Guard Aidan Burke is the lone returning player who l

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