University of North Texas Athletics
North Texas vs Grambling State Postgame Notes
12/2/2010 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
North Texas Mean Green (6-1, 0-0 Sun Belt), Grambling State Tigers (1-6, 0-0 Southwestern Athletic)
December 2, 2010 - 7 p.m.
The Super Pit
Denton, Texas
NEXT GAME: North Texas goes to Houston to face Texas Southern on Saturday, December 4 at 7 p.m. The Mean Green return to the Super Pit on December 11 to take on Jackson State at 7 p.m.
TEAM
-North Texas is off to their best start since 1977-78, when the Mean Green started 7-1.
-Dating back to last season, North Texas has now won their last 17 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 10 game home winning streak. This ties the longest home win streak in the Johnny Jones era and is tied for the fifth longest home win streak at North Texas all-time.
-North Texas has not dropped a home non-conference game since December 29, 2008, a 80-75 loss to UT Arlington
-North Texas has now won its last 21 games when they have a halftime lead
-North Texas is now 79-16 in the Johnny Jones era when scoring 80 or more points in a game.
-All five starters were in double-figures for North Texas, the second straight game that the Mean Green have had five players in double figures.
-North Texas is now 3-0 when using the starting lineup of Johnson, White, Thompson, Hogans and Odufuwa this season.
INDIVIDUAL
-Came one point short of tying his career high 29 points, which he set on Tuesday against UTA
-Moves past Leonard Hopkins (136) into 7th place at North Texas with 137 career 3-pointers made.
-He is averaging 26.5 points in his last four contests
-Posted his 5th 20+ point outing of the season. He has scored 20+ in four straight games and six of his last eight contests.
-Has scored in double digits for the 13th straight game, dating back to last season. He now has scored in double digits in 31 of his last 32 games, dating back to last season. He has 56 double-digit scoring games in his career.
-Notched his 21st career double-double with 14 points and 10 rebounds. This is his fourth double-double of 2010-11 and second consecutive double-double.
-Reached double-digits in scoring for the 34th time in his career and fifth time this season. He has now scored in double figures in four straight games.
-Grabbed 10 boards tonight, giving him 10 of 12 games with double-digit rebounds, dating back to last season.
-Recorded 5+ assists for the sixth straight game
-He now has 23 double figure scoring outings for his career and five this season
-Scored in double figures for the third time this season
-Has scored in double figures five times this season and 70 times in his career.
-With 1,351 points for his career, he moves past Leonard Hopkins (1,340) for 8th place on North Texas career scoring list.
