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TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Frank Haith raised a lot of eyebrows when he left Missouri and the Southeastern Conference for the University of Tulsa.
On the dawn of the Golden Hurricane's first season in the American Athletic Conference, Haith seems at ease and genuinely excited about his decision.
Haith said he talked with former Tulsa coaches such as Tubby Smith and Bill Self and became even more excited about the possibilities. It also didn't hurt that he would be inheriting a team that under Danny Manning a year ago turned a 1-6 start into a 21-13 finish, including a Conference USA tournament championship and the school's first NCAA appearance since 2003, a first-round loss to UCLA.
Nearly every key player on that team returns, along with junior guard Marquel Curtis, who missed most of the year with an ankle injury.
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