After trailing by 15 at halftime, Tulsa, the No. 5 seed and host school, defeated 12th-seeded Rice 73-62 in a Wednesday first round game to advance and meet the Thundering Herd.
Bonita Lawrence's work to make complex mathematical concepts more understandable to her students was a key factor in her selection as 2009 Professor of the Year by the Faculty Merit Foundation of West Virginia.
"We're going to run until the wheels come off," Wilkerson said Monday before the Marshall University men's basketball team embarked for the Conference USA tournament.
