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Saturday, December 21
The Super Pit
5:00 PM
University of North Texas
vs
Arkansas - Pine Bluff
Mean Green Host Arkansas Pine Bluff
12/20/2019 10:51:00 AM | Men's Basketball
DENTON — As the 2019 calendar year and non-conference schedule comes to an end, the North Texas men's basketball team will host Arkansas Pine Bluff on Saturday at 5 p.m.
What is the second to last game of 2019 and the non-conferene, the Mean Green (4-7) and Golden Lions (1-9) will play on C-USA.tv and the Mean Green Sports Network on the tuneIN app. Dave Barnett and Hank Dickenson will be on the call.
UNT defeated UAPB last season 77-66 in the two teams' first ever meeting. North Texas' Michael Miller, a 2019 graduate, scored a career-high 35 points in the win.
TOUGH SCHEDULING
As of Wednesday, North Texas' first 11 opponents this season had a combined winning percentage of .667 (72-36). It is the 32nd toughest schedule in the nation through the first 11 games and the toughest in C-USA. The schedule gets a little easier moving forward as their future opponents have a combined .512 winning percentage (83-79), which ranks 210th in the nation. North Texas' total strength of schedule last season ranked 219th. UAPB comes into Denton with the 16th toughest schedule in the nation (.694).
On Monday, North Texas earned a No. 98 NET ranking, the first NET ranking of the season. They were the only team in the top 100 with a losing record and according to the NET had the 11th toughest schedule in the nation. After UNT's loss at No. 13 Dayton on Tuesday, they fell to 108 in the NET Ranking.
FINDING HIS GROOVE
Redshirt junior point guard Javion Hamlet has started to find his groove as the team's floor general. In the team's first seven games, Hamlet had 15 assists and 24 turn- overs (.6 A/TO). But in UNT's last four games, he's had 24 assists (6 per game) and just nine turnovers (2.6 A/TO). Furthermore, he's averaged 12.3 ppg over the last four games opposed to 8.1 ppg in the first seven games.
MO BUCKETS
As of Thursday, redshirt sophomore Umoja Gibson who leads the Mean Green with 14.6 ppg has scored 164 total points which is the fifth-most in C-USA.
Z RANGE
Over the last four games, junior forward Zachary Simmons is 18-of-23 (.783) from the field and 2-of-3 from deep. During the four- game stretch he's averaging 10.5 ppg. He scored a season-high 18 points on Tuesday at No. 13 Dayton.
SAME STARTING 5
UNT has had the same starting lineup in each of its first 11 games (Hamlet, Gibson, Reese, Geu, Z. Simmons).
What is the second to last game of 2019 and the non-conferene, the Mean Green (4-7) and Golden Lions (1-9) will play on C-USA.tv and the Mean Green Sports Network on the tuneIN app. Dave Barnett and Hank Dickenson will be on the call.
UNT defeated UAPB last season 77-66 in the two teams' first ever meeting. North Texas' Michael Miller, a 2019 graduate, scored a career-high 35 points in the win.
TOUGH SCHEDULING
As of Wednesday, North Texas' first 11 opponents this season had a combined winning percentage of .667 (72-36). It is the 32nd toughest schedule in the nation through the first 11 games and the toughest in C-USA. The schedule gets a little easier moving forward as their future opponents have a combined .512 winning percentage (83-79), which ranks 210th in the nation. North Texas' total strength of schedule last season ranked 219th. UAPB comes into Denton with the 16th toughest schedule in the nation (.694).
On Monday, North Texas earned a No. 98 NET ranking, the first NET ranking of the season. They were the only team in the top 100 with a losing record and according to the NET had the 11th toughest schedule in the nation. After UNT's loss at No. 13 Dayton on Tuesday, they fell to 108 in the NET Ranking.
FINDING HIS GROOVE
Redshirt junior point guard Javion Hamlet has started to find his groove as the team's floor general. In the team's first seven games, Hamlet had 15 assists and 24 turn- overs (.6 A/TO). But in UNT's last four games, he's had 24 assists (6 per game) and just nine turnovers (2.6 A/TO). Furthermore, he's averaged 12.3 ppg over the last four games opposed to 8.1 ppg in the first seven games.
MO BUCKETS
As of Thursday, redshirt sophomore Umoja Gibson who leads the Mean Green with 14.6 ppg has scored 164 total points which is the fifth-most in C-USA.
Z RANGE
Over the last four games, junior forward Zachary Simmons is 18-of-23 (.783) from the field and 2-of-3 from deep. During the four- game stretch he's averaging 10.5 ppg. He scored a season-high 18 points on Tuesday at No. 13 Dayton.
SAME STARTING 5
UNT has had the same starting lineup in each of its first 11 games (Hamlet, Gibson, Reese, Geu, Z. Simmons).
CONVERTING AT THE LINE
North Texas is shooting just 72 percent as a team on the year at the free throw line. But over the last six games, UNT is shooting a combined 80 percent (56-68). In each of their last three games, UNT has missed just one free throw.
CHARGES
North Texas has drawn at least one charge in all but one game this season (12/5 vs. Oklahoma). They have drawn 18 charges on the year. Deng Geu leads the team having drawn seven of the 17 charges.
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