Mean Green Host LSUA On Tuesday

Who: LSU Alexandria (7-2) vs. North Texas Mean Green (3-3)
What: UNT wraps up its non-conference slate riding a two-game winning streak.
When: Tuesday – Dec. 22 – 1:00 pm CT
Where: Denton, TX – The Super Pit
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DENTON — North Texas is coming off its best week of the young season and are aiming to wrap up non-conference play on Tuesday on a similar high note.

The Mean Green (3-3) host NAIA opponent LSU Alexandria (7-2) on Tuesday at 1 p.m. CT at the Super Pit. The game is part one of a doubleheader at the Super Pit as the UNT women's basketball team (3-1) hosts Oklahoma State (5-2) at 5 p.m.

The men's basketball game will be broadcasted on YouTube Live and CUSA.tv and as always the Mean Green Sports Network Learfield College IMG.

In its two games this weekend, UNT averaged 83 points per game and beat Arkansas Pine Bluff and Houston Baptist by an average of 27.5 points. Against HBU, the Mean Green went on a 23-0 run in the first half and forced the Huskies to miss 11 straight shots during that stretch. It's the biggest run North Texas has had under fourth-year head coach Grant McCasland.

Redshirt senior point guard Javion Hamlet averaged 16.5 points and 6.5 assists per game last week while only turning it over twice. He recorded a double-double on Thursday versus HBU with 19 points and 10 assists. It was his second double-double of the young season.

UNT welcomes LSUA having won 14 of its last 15 at home.

As of Monday, after Tuesday's game versus LSUA the Mean Green have nine days off before their next game. They host UAB on Jan. 1 at 7 p.m. to begin their Conference USA title defense. UNT went 14-4 last year in conference and finished in first place. It was the program's first regular season conference championship since 1989 and the 14 league wins were the most as a DI program.

NEWS AND NOTES

Through Sunday, North Texas' 41.0 3-point field goal percentage is tied for the 12th best in the nation and best among C-USA schools. UNT is only one of four teams in the nation ranked in the top 15 in 3-point field goal percentage and in the top 100 in 2-point field goal percentage (52.9 percent, 90th in the nation). Baylor, Illinois and Saint Louis are the other schools.
Former walk-on JJ Murray played 19 total minutes all of last year. In the last three games combined he's 60 minutes and at No. 11 WVU and versus HBU he recorded more minutes in those games than he did in all of last season's games combined. Murray was surprised with a scholarship by McCasland on Aug. 27 after two years of being a walk-on.
In the two games combined last week newcomer Terence Lewis II (aka
"T2") only played 29 total minutes but he scored 23 points on 10-of-12 (.833) shooting. He also had 11 rebounds, 4 steals and 4 assists to go along with his scoring. His combined .833 field goal percentage was second-best last week among C-USA players who attempted 10 or more shots.
If senior Zachary Simmons starts on Tuesday it will be his 100th career start. Simmons enters Tuesday having made 77 straight starts.

GET TO KNOW LSU ALEXANDRIA

Since the program's inception in 2014-15, LSUA is the winningest program in the state of Louisiana with a record of 177-29 and a winning percentage of 85.9.
LSUA is 2-11 against DI teams with wins coming against Southeastern Louisiana and Northwestern State in 2015. The win against SLU was made even more special due to the fact that Larry Cordaro came to LSUA from SLU where he was an assistant. Tuesday is the third consecutive contest against a Division I opponent for the Generals, falling 97-79 to Stephen F. Austin on Dec. 6 and 90-75 to UL Lafayette on Dec. 8. Prior to that LSUA hadn't played a DI opponent since Nov. 26, 2016, which was an 80-78 loss at McNeese.
The Generals have qualified for the NAIA tournament in all six years of the program's existence. They made it to the championship game in 2018 before falling to Graceland (IA) in overtime.
LSUA has captured either the Red River Athletic Conference regular season or tournament title (or both) every year in program history. They won the regular season title last year before falling to Texas A&M-Texarkana in the semifinals of the conference tournament.

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