UTEP At Mean Green

DENTON – North Texas women's basketball plays host to their first Conference USA matchup against UTEP Thursday at 7 p.m. inside The Super Pit.

About the Mean Green (9-5, 2-0 C-USA)
North Texas is on a five-game win streak and has compiled victories in seven of their last eight games.
Terriell Bradley's scoring average of 18.4 leads the Mean Green and is third within Conference USA. Anisha George contributes 11.1 points per contest along with a team-best 7.1 rebounds to rank seventh in the league. Trena Mims adds 7.4 points and hands out 3.6 assists to sit sixth in C-USA while her assist-to-turnover ratio of 2.2 ranks second.
The Mean Green are outscoring their opponents by an average of 9.2 points while shooting 40.2-percent from the field compared to 37.8 from their foes. UNT has put up a total of 887 shots this season as their rivals have fired up 760. However, the opponents have totaled 295 attempts from the free throw line compared to 252 from the Mean Green.

About the Miners (4-10, 1-0 C-USA)
UTEP opened conference play with a 73-60 win at UTSA Jan. 5. The Miners began the season with a pair of wins before compiling an eight-game losing streak which ended Dec. 20 with a victory over Western Illinois.
The Mean Green and UTEP share a common opponent this season in CSU Bakersfield. UNT defeated the Roadrunners, 71-59, Dec. 21 inside The Pit, while the Miners also took a win from CSUB in a 53-47 victory at home Nov. 14.
Zuzanna Pac tops UTEP with a 12.9 scoring average and also contributes 5.6 rebounds, two assists, and 0.7 blocks per game. The second-leading scorer for the Miners, Ariona Gill, has sat out the past two games due to injury. Jordan Alexander is also a factor for UTEP with averages of 7.9 points, 6.3 assists, and 1.9 assists.
The Miners rank second in the league with 15.8 assists per game but sit last in steals per contest with 3.5.

History between the squads
UTEP
The Miners hold a 7-4 all-time advantage over the Mean Green with the first contest occurring during the 1980-81 season. UTEP has won four of the last six, and UNT is 1-2 with head coach Jalie Mitchell at the helm.

Last meeting
Mean Green vs. Miners
DENTON (Jan. 28, 2018) - The North Texas women's basketball team rallied from behind to take a lead late but it only lasted momentarily as the Miners made a key 3-pointer to retake the lead and eventually win, 50-48.
Terriell Bradley led the way for the Mean Green with a game-high 22 points in 38 minutes. With five seconds left in the game, Bradley had an opportunity to give the Mean Green the lead but a missed layup in heavy traffic sealed the game for the Miners.

One more for six
The Mean Green are currently on a five-game win streak beginning with the Dec. 16 win at Xavier (La.). If North Texas is able to defeat UTEP Jan. 10, it will be the first time the program has strung together six victories since head coach Jalie Mitchell's senior season in 2001-02 where the team did it on two occasions. During the stretch, her team defeated Middle Tennessee, Louisiana-Lafayette, New Mexico State, New Orleans, and Denver twice for the first set of six before losing to South Alabama. The squad picked it right back up with another half dozen wins against Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, South Alabama, and two wins apiece versus Western Kentucky and New Orleans.

The race to 50
With 49 wins on her resume since leading the Mean Green, head coach Jalie Mitchell is approaching the big 5-0. The next victory will place Mitchell alongside former coaches Judy Nelson and Tina Slinker in the 50-win club. If Mitchell is to attain her 50^thwithin the next 13 contests, she will become the fastest to achieve the honor.

George named C-USA Player of the Week
Anisha George was voted the Conference USA Women's Basketball Player of the Week by the league office Jan. 9.
George's dominant play helped North Texas to its first-ever 2-0 start in Conference USA play as the junior post averaged 18.5 points and 8.5 rebounds. Her game-high nine rebounds along with 12 points at LA Tech Jan. 3 led UNT to their first win in Ruston, while her career and game-high 25 points and eight rebounds at Southern Miss Jan. 5 also handed the Mean Green their first win in Hattiesburg. George went 17-of-23 from the field in the victories for an astounding field goal percentage of 73.9-percent.
Defensively, the junior post was extremely effective, especially against the Lady Eagles. George held the opposing post players to a collective 11 points, including zero from their second-leading scorer, while committing zero fouls in the contest.
The St. Croix, Virgin Islands, native leads the league in field goal percentage (62.5-percent) to rank 10thoverall in the nation. Within the conference, she also sits sixth in blocks per game (1.1) and seventh in rebounds (7.1).
George becomes the fourth Mean Green to achieve the weekly honor and joins her teammate, three-time recipient Terriell Bradley, as well as one-time honorees Kelsey Criner and Breanna Dawkins.

Mims taking care of the ball
Trena Mims sits second in C-USA in assist-to-turnover ratio with her 51 helpers and 23 miscues. Eleven of her turnovers have occurred between three contests, while Mims has registered two games with zero mistakes in 26 minutes of play against Utah State Dec. 8 and Oklahoma Panhandle Dec. 29 and also has six games with only a single turnover.
She set a career-high in assists with nine versus Houston Baptist Dec. 5 and has twice dished out six. Her total against HBU is the third-best performance within C-USA this season.

Doubling up
The Mean Green have compiled four double-doubles throughout the 2018-19 season with three coming from junior post Anisha George and the other by redshirt sophomore forward Madison Townley. George's trio of double-doubles ranks third in C-USA.
Throughout the entire 2017-18 season, the team amassed five, one each from current players Terriell Bradley and Micayla Buckner. Two seasons ago, six double-doubles were accomplished with half of them coming from Bradley.

Bradley enters top 10 in scoring
With her breakout career-high 40-point performance against NDSU Nov. 24, Terriell Bradley has continued to show her offensive prowess with 30 points at SMU Nov. 28 and 36 versus Missouri State Dec. 1. She has now elevated from 14^thto eighth in the UNT career scoring charts with 1,215 points. Head Coach Jalie Mitchell's (1998-2002) record of sits at 1,764.
If Bradley continues her current 18.4 average throughout the regular season, she would move into third all-time with nearly 1,500 points.

Chart-topping Bradley
With 349 free throws made, Bradley sits in fourth place all-time in program history. She needs 16 more to tie Isalene Jones (1980-84) for third. Not out of sight is the No. 1 spot, held by Head Coach Jalie Mitchell who sank 411 throughout her career. Bradley made 164 from the line last season and now needs 62 to dethrone Mitchell, which comes out to be 4.4 makes per game throughout the remainder of the regular season.
Bradley is currently tied for sixth all-time in 3-pointers made with 112. Ashley Norris (1995-2000) occupies the top spot with 197.

Bring on the OT
The Mean Green have compiled a lowly 12-26 record throughout program history in overtime games, but following the 83-76 win over Missouri State Dec. 1, UNT has now strung together six straight victories involving extra periods. The win over the Bears was just the third time in program history UNT has found success inside The Super Pit in OT, as the team is now at 3-10 at home. Two seasons ago, North Texas pulled out wins in each of their four overtime contests, and went one-for-one in 2017-18.

Non-con results
Following the 93-52 win over Oklahoma Panhandle State, UNT finished their nonconference schedule two games above .500 at 7-5. Dating to the 2015-16 season, the Mean Green are currently 24-21 in games occurring before the start of C-USA play. The team posted a mark of 9-3 in pre-conference play last season.

Last outing for the Mean Green
HATTIESBURG, Miss. (Jan. 5, 2019) – North Texas women's basketball made history for the second consecutive game by defeating Southern Miss, 62-48, for the program's inaugural win in Hattiesburg and their first-ever 2-0 start in Conference USA play as Anisha George dominated with a career-high 25 points and eight rebounds Saturday inside Reed Green Arena.
It took the Mean Green (9-5, 2-0 C-USA) eight tries to finally win at Southern Miss (8-7, 0-2 C-USA), but an 18-4 run in the third quarter was the key to putting away the Lady Eagles. Southern Miss entered the contest leading the league in turnovers forced at nearly 19 a game, but North Texas pressured the home team into 27 of their own miscues and turned those into 28 points. Only four points were secured off of UNT's 16 turnovers.
Terriell Bradley joined George in double figures with 11 points by knocking down 9-of-10 from the free throw line. Madison Townley tallied game-high rebound honors alongside George with eight, and Trena Mims was the contest's assist leader with four.
The Mean Green held the three leading scorers from Southern Miss to a collective nine points, including zero from the big post presence of Kelsey Jones.

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