The Golden Hurricane are led by head coach Eric Konkol, hired from Louisiana Tech on March 21, 2022, to replace Frank Haith who had resigned.

[4] In the 1990s and 2000s, a succession of Tulsa coaches went on to big-name programs across the country, including Tubby Smith, Buzz Peterson, and Bill Self.

Notable assistants in the program's history have included Billy Gillispie, Flip Saunders, Kevin O’Neill, Mike Anderson, Ron Jirsa and Jerry Wainwright.

King was selected to the 1968 NBA All-Star Game, and Smith scored more than 10,000 points in his career, having his number retired by the Cleveland Cavaliers.

[7] The team hit hard times and achieved occasional modest success until the arrival of Clarence Iba in 1949.

[10] In 1955, Iba led the Golden Hurricane to their first Missouri Valley Conference title and NCAA tournament appearance.

Nolan Richardson's hiring helped to usher in a new era of success at Tulsa that has remained fairly consistent since then.

His flamboyant personality made him extremely popular; his teams adopted McFadden & Whitehead's "Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now" as their theme song during the Richardson years.

[12] Richardson was succeeded by J. D. Barnett, who continued the team's success, winning one tournament and one regular season championship and finishing lower than third in the conference only once.

Peterson led the team to the 2001 NIT Championship and promptly took the head coaching position at the University of Tennessee.

Following Peterson's departure, John Phillips led the team to NCAA tournaments in his first two seasons and won a WAC title.

Much has been made of Tulsa's ability to hire good coaching candidates but their inability to retain them like Gonzaga has been able to.

[28] Tulsa currently plays in the Reynolds Center, an 8,355-capacity on-campus arena adjacent to Skelly Field at H. A. Chapman Stadium.

The student section is known as the Storm Front, and is known in the current year for members of the TU Chapter of Beta Upsilon Chi, who carry shields and wear various animal masks during opponent free throws.

[29] Efforts are made by the coaching staff through frequent e-mails to encourage attendance and creativity from the student body.

In the early years of the program, the team played at various area high schools and in smaller on-campus gymnasiums.

While in the Missouri Valley Conference, the Golden Hurricane had an extensive rivalry with Wichita State[7] Creighton, Southern Illinois and Bradley.

Tulsa had an intense rivalry with Fresno State and Hawaii while a member of the Western Athletic Conference.

Tulsa moved into the American Athletic Conference in July 2014, restoring natural rivalries with AAC members Memphis, Cincinnati, SMU and Houston.