University of North Texas Athletics
NT vs UTA Postgame Notes
11/30/2010 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
North Texas Mean Green (5-1, 0-0 Sun Belt), UT Arlington Mavericks (5-2, 0-0 Southland)
November 30, 2010 - 7 p.m.
The Super Pit - Denton, Texas
NEXT GAME: North Texas hosts Grambling on Thursday, December 2nd at the Super Pit. Tip is at 7 p.m.
TEAM
-Dating back to last season, North Texas has now won their last 16 games against unranked opponents, with the only losses in that span coming to No. 2 seed Kansas State in the NCAA Tournament and at No. 6 Kansas.
-North Texas is on a nine game home winning streak.
-North Texas has not dropped a home non-conference game since December 29, 2008, a 80-75 loss to UT Arlington
-This is the first time North Texas has beat UT Arlington in back-to-back years since 1993-94 and 1994-95, when the Mean Green had a 3-1 record against the Mavericks
-North Texas has now won its last 20 games when they have a halftime lead
-North Texas is now 78-16 in the Johnny Jones era when scoring 80 or more points in a game.
INDIVIDUAL
Tristan Thompson
-Set career-highs in points & rebounds
-His 29 points were a career-high, topping his previous mark of 28, set on 3/18/10 against No. 2 seed Kansas State in the NCAA Tournament
-Posted his 4th 20+ point outing of the season. He has scored 20+ in three straight games and five of his last seven contests.
-Set a career-high with nine rebounds, surpassing his previous high of eight, last set on 12/1/07 against New Mexico State
-Has scored in double digits for the 12th straight game, dating back to last season. He now has scored in double digits in 30 of his last 31 games, dating back to last season. He has 55 double-digit scoring games in his career.
-Has made 10+ FT for the second time season. He went 13 of 16 from the line against Henderson State
George Odufuwa
-Notched his 20th career double-double with 10 points and 14 rebounds. This is his third double-double of 2010-11.
-Reached double-digits in scoring for the 33rd time in his career and fourth time this season.
-Grabbed 14 boards tonight, giving him 10 of 12 games with double-digit rebounds, dating back to last season.
Dominique Johnson
-Tied a career high with seven assists
-Recorded 5+ assists for the fifth straight game
-He now has 22 double figure scoring outings for his career and four this season
Kedrick Hogans
-Had his fourth 3+ block game of the season and eighth of his career
-With 61 blocks, has passed Will Smith (60) for 6th place on North Texas' career block list.
-Tied a career high with nine rebounds
Josh White
-Has scored in double figures four times this season and 69 times in his career.
-With 19 points tonight and 1,339 for his career, he is now one point short of Leonard Hopkins (1,340) for 8th on North Texas career scoring list.
