University of North Texas Athletics
University of North Texas
Angelo State
Mean Green Host Angelo St. In Season Opener
11/6/2018 9:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
GAME NOTES
DENTON — It's been 222 days since the the Mean Green basketball team ended its first season under Grant McCasland by cutting down the nets inside the Super Pit after winning the College Basketball Invitational. And on Tuesday at 7:00 p.m., North Texas begins its second season when they host the Lone Star Conference's Angelo State for the season-opener.
Tuesday's game will air on C-USA.tv and on the radio on the Mean Green Sports Network with the voice of the Mean Green, Dave Barnett and Hank Dickenson on the call.
North Texas vs. Angelo State
Tuesday, Nov. 6 at 7:00 p.m. (CST)
TV: C-USA.TV (Dave Barnett, Hank Dickenson)
Radio: MGSN, KNTU 88.1 FM, KHYI 95.3 FM and the TuneIN app (Dave Barnett, Hank Dickenson)
Twitter: @MeanGreenMBB
#GMG
- The Mean Green have won their previous five season-openers.
- This will be the third all-time meeting between North Texas and Angelo State. The Mean Green are 2-0 versus the Rams and have scored an average of 105.5 points per game against them.
- The Mean Green are on a four-game home winning streak dating back to last season.
- Junior Ryan Woolridge is only seven assists away from moving into fifth and passing Kevin Gully (1987-90) on the program's all-time assist leaderboard.
- When redshirt sophomore Jahmiah Simmons and freshman Shakeem Alcindor suit-up on Tuesday it will mark the first time in school history someone from the U.S. Virgin Islands played for the Mean Green.
- Roosevelt Smart has scored in double figures in nine straight games. He had 32 double-figure scoring games last season. It was the most on the team by eight games. Ryan Woolridge had the second-most with 24.
North Texas Six Degrees Of Separation
Before being promoted to the head coach position at Angelo State, the Rams' Cinco Boone served for multiple seasons as an assistant under Chris Beard who is now the head coach at Texas Tech. But before Beard was a head coach anywhere, he was an assistant coach for the Mean Green from 1997-1999 under Vic Trilli.
75 Percent
North Texas returns 75 percent of its offensive from last year. UNT's returners scored 2,140 of its 2,828 total points last season.
1K
Roosevelt Smart is looking to become just the fifth Mean Green basketball player to score 1,000+ points in his first two seasons with UNT. The last to do it was Chris Davis who scored 1,091 points in his first two seasons in Denton from 1999-2001.
No. 4
North Texas was picked by the league's coaches to finish fourth the conference standings. They were picked to finish 11th last year. No other school made a jump in the projected standings as big at UNT.
Record Breaking Season
North Texas broke 14 team records last year. They broke seven team and seven individual records.
