FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) -- This wasn't the kind of game that Tulsa coach Bill Self expected in the Western Athletic Conference opener.

Instead of a close, down-to-the-wire finish against the nation's highest scoring team, Tulsa (No. 25 ESPN/USA Today, No. 22 AP) continued its impressive run Thursday night with a 94-73 victory at Texas Christian.

"I really didn't anticipate what happened happening tonight," Self said. "My team keeps surprising me, pleasantly in that regard, but by no way did I think this was a game that wouldn't come down to the last two or three minutes."

The Golden Hurricane (14-1) have won seven straight games, all by at least 14 points. They held TCU (9-7), which was coming off games with 143 and 134 points, 21 points below its season average.

Brandon Kurtz scored 21 points, including an inside basket less than 10 seconds into the game that put Tulsa ahead to stay.

Kurtz was 9-of-11 for the Golden Hurricane, who shot a season best 62 percent (39-of-63).

David Shelton added 20 points on 8-of-11 shooting for Tulsa, while Eric Coley added 18 points by going 9-of-13. Marcus Hill added 14 points, giving the Golden Hurricane at least four double figure scorers for the 12th time this season.

"The intensity and togetherness on the floor is unbelievable," Kurtz said. "We've got a lot of firepower and our quickness is at another level."

In his team's most recent two games, coach Billy Tubbs had let his players loose, pretty much abandoning defense for the shoot-first style of play for which he has earned much of his reputation. Those games were two of the four highest scoring games in school history, but the Horned Frogs couldn't come close against Tulsa.

Then again, Tulsa certainly is not on the same level as Grambling State or North Texas, a team the Golden Hurricane had beaten 113-77 a week earlier in its most previous game.

"The fact is they are a very balanced team, they just crushed us," Tubbs said. "They've got the full package and are playing with a lot of confidence."

When TCU got close and appeared ready to make a run, first midway through the first half and then right after halftime, Tulsa responded quickly.

Like he did to start the game, Kurtz scored the opening basket of the second half. His putback in the first minute of the half extended the Tulsa lead to 48-31.

"We made a little comeback. We just got ourselves in a big hole and couldn't climb out of it," Tubbs said.

TCU then scored eight straight points, including 3-pointers by Ryan Carroll and Thomas McTyer. But the Golden Hurricane got most of it right back as a seven-point spurt that ended with another Kurtz putback with 16:31 left that made it 54-39.

The Golden Hurricane went on to build as much as a 27-point lead.

"Obviously, we played really well. We've been a team for the most part that's gotten off to good starts and made teams play catch-up, and that's what happened," Self said. "We played really well early and I don't TCU was really able to recover, so we always had them at arm's length."

By hitting six of its first seven shots in the game, Tulsa built a 14-7 lead by the first timeout. But the Golden Hurricane then made just two of their next 11 shots, allowing TCU to get within 19-16.

Tulsa rebounded with three consecutive 3-pointers, two by Hill and another by Tony Heard, to push the lead to more than double figures. Only once after that did TCU get the margin under 10.

Estell Laster led TCU with 19 points, while Myron Anthony had 12 points and 13 rebounds.