Wednesday, March 13-Saturday, March 16
March has rolled around and downtown Tulsa’s light posts are a-flutter with banners announcing that the Conference USA Basketball Tournament is about to hit like a 50-mile-per-hour straight-line wind. College basketball’s C-USA conference preps for March Madness mode with the first rounds of play for both men’s and women’s games Wednesday, March 13, beginning at 11 a.m. The tournament moves on reaching the championship games set for 10:30 a.m. (men) and 7 p.m. (women) on Saturday, March 16. Will holding the tournament on the home court give conference school University of Tulsa an advantage? Who will move on to the NCAA Division I championships? These answers and more to come at the BOK Center, 200 S. Denver Ave., and the Tulsa Convention Center, southwest of the arena at 100 Civic Center. Tickets are $47-$292 online at www.bokcenter.com.
