University of North Texas Athletics
Mean Green Basketball Delivering In the Clutch
12/22/2006 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
North Texas (8-3, 1-1) jumped to 84 in the official RPI Ratings following the 86-85 win over Sun Belt rival Western Kentucky, which came down to a Keith Wooden lay-up with just over five seconds remaining.
NT, now 2-1 against the RPI’s top 100 teams, has gotten to this point with gritty performances in the closing minutes of tight games.
When it comes down to the wire,
In the final two minutes of those six games, Michael Sturns and Calvin Watson have combined for 33 of the team’s 53 points, and the team as a whole is shooting 51.4 percent from the floor.
Wooden alone is shooting 66.7 percent during clutch time in his first season in a Mean Green uniform.
The win at Western Kentucky was not only North Texas’ first victory over the Hilltoppers in eight tries, but it also marks only the second time a Sun Belt team has won at E.A. Diddle Arena in the last three seasons.
Not only has
NT owns a 2-0 record against
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