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Mean Green At UAB
12/31/2020 1:00:00 PM | Women's Basketball
DENTON – North Texas women's basketball opens Conference USA play at UAB with a pair of games Friday and Saturday both tipping at 2 p.m. inside Bartow Arena.
About the Mean Green
North Texas dropped an 82-68 contest to Oklahoma State Dec. 29 to close out the non-conference campaign. Redshirt sophomore Quincy Noble leads the team in scoring at 19.4 points. Sophomore N'Yah Boyd averages 12.6, while redshirt senior Madison Townley posts 9.6 along with a team-high 7.4 rebounds. Junior Destiny Brooks adds 7.8, sophomore Jazion Jackson contributes 7.4, and Boyd dishes out team-best 4.8 assists.
About the Blazers
UAB enters the conference slate with a mark of 5-1 with the lone loss against Mercer in overtime. Margaret Whitley is second in C-USA in points per game with 22.0, and Zakyia Weathersby averages 12.7 and leads the league in rebounding at 10.8. The Blazers were picked to finish seventh in the conference in the preseason poll, one spot ahead of North Texas.
History between UNT and UAB
The Mean Green own a 6-5 all-time advantage, with the first meeting occurring during the 2000-01 season. The Blazers have taken the past four contests, including last season's 51-50 decision.
Last meeting
DENTON (Feb. 8, 2020) – The North Texas women's basketball team let a second half lead slip away for the second straight game in a 51-50 loss to UAB on Saturday afternoon.
North Texas led 42-27 midway through the third quarter before enduring a second half scoring drought that saw the Mean Green score eight points in the final 15 minutes and 13 seconds of the game.
Anisha George led North Texas with 22 points and seven rebounds. Randi Thompson added another 12 points while tying for a team high eight rebounds.
Non-con results
UNT finished non-conference play at 3-2 in 2020. Dating to the 2015-16 season, the beginning of head coach Jalie Mitchell's tenure, the Mean Green are 32-21 in games occurring before the start of C-USA competition. The team posted a mark of 6-7 in pre-conference play last season.
Start of C-USA play
The Mean Green have earned victories in the past two Conference USA openers with a win versus Western Kentucky last season and a win at LA Tech in 2018-19. That year, the team compiled a 3-0 start for the first time in program history. Under head coach Jalie Mitchell, UNT is 3-2 all-time when beginning league play.
New Versus Old
The Mean Green welcomed back a solid core of contributors from last season, including leading scorers Destinee McDowell and N'Yah Boyd. Transfers Quincy Noble, Destiny Brooks, Rochelle Lee and Emma Villas-Gomis are eligible for competition for the Mean Green in 2020-21 along with freshmen Tommisha Lampkin and Maddie Cleary. To date, the group of returners is posting 48 points per contest, while the newbies contribute 35.
A Noble Start
Quincy Noble has already made a name for herself four games into her career with the Mean Green. The redshirt sophomore put up a career-high 30 points against Louisiana Dec. 4 and knocked down five 3-pointers, the fifth-highest total ever recorded by a North Texas player. Against UTA Dec. 19, she recorded game-highs of 22 points and nine rebounds and made the most of her North Texas debut with a team-high 17 points in a season-opening win over Tarleton Nov. 25. Noble ranks second in the league in accuracy from the 3-point line at over 45-percent and ranks fourth in 3s per game at 3.0 per contest.
Deep Improvement
The Mean Green struggled from the 3-point line last season by connecting on just 27.8 percent of their attempts, ranking them 300 of the 348 teams in NCAA Division I. So far in 2020-21, the team is hitting at a 38.7-percent clip to sit 21st in the nation and second in Conference USA.
Boyd Named C-USA Player Of The Week
DALLAS (Dec. 28, 2020) – N'Yah Boyd of North Texas earned Conference USA Player of the Week honors for her performance against Oklahoma State Dec. 22.
The sophomore guard scored a season-high 20 points against the Cowgirls. She also stuffed the stat sheet with a team-high five assists, four rebounds, a pair of steals and was nearly perfect from the free throw line, going 6-for-7.
Within the league, Boyd ranks third in free throw percentage (84-percent), fourth in assists per game (4.8) and sixth in assist-to-turnover ratio (1.71).
This is Boyd's first career honor.
Last Mean Green Outing
DENTON (Dec. 22, 2020) – N'Yah Boyd scored a season-high 20 points for North Texas women's basketball, but a 21-8 run by Oklahoma State in the second quarter pushed the Cowgirls past the Mean Green, 82-68, Saturday inside The Super Pit.
Boyd also posted a team-high five assists, four rebounds and a pair of steals. Quincy Noble kept her season streak of double-digit scoring alive with 16 points, Destiny Brooks recorded 11, and Madison Townley added 10. The Mean Green (3-2) had trouble containing Natasha Mack of OSU (6-2, 2-0 Big 12) who dominated inside with 31 points and 14 rebounds.
About the Mean Green
North Texas dropped an 82-68 contest to Oklahoma State Dec. 29 to close out the non-conference campaign. Redshirt sophomore Quincy Noble leads the team in scoring at 19.4 points. Sophomore N'Yah Boyd averages 12.6, while redshirt senior Madison Townley posts 9.6 along with a team-high 7.4 rebounds. Junior Destiny Brooks adds 7.8, sophomore Jazion Jackson contributes 7.4, and Boyd dishes out team-best 4.8 assists.
About the Blazers
UAB enters the conference slate with a mark of 5-1 with the lone loss against Mercer in overtime. Margaret Whitley is second in C-USA in points per game with 22.0, and Zakyia Weathersby averages 12.7 and leads the league in rebounding at 10.8. The Blazers were picked to finish seventh in the conference in the preseason poll, one spot ahead of North Texas.
History between UNT and UAB
The Mean Green own a 6-5 all-time advantage, with the first meeting occurring during the 2000-01 season. The Blazers have taken the past four contests, including last season's 51-50 decision.
Last meeting
DENTON (Feb. 8, 2020) – The North Texas women's basketball team let a second half lead slip away for the second straight game in a 51-50 loss to UAB on Saturday afternoon.
North Texas led 42-27 midway through the third quarter before enduring a second half scoring drought that saw the Mean Green score eight points in the final 15 minutes and 13 seconds of the game.
Anisha George led North Texas with 22 points and seven rebounds. Randi Thompson added another 12 points while tying for a team high eight rebounds.
Non-con results
UNT finished non-conference play at 3-2 in 2020. Dating to the 2015-16 season, the beginning of head coach Jalie Mitchell's tenure, the Mean Green are 32-21 in games occurring before the start of C-USA competition. The team posted a mark of 6-7 in pre-conference play last season.
Start of C-USA play
The Mean Green have earned victories in the past two Conference USA openers with a win versus Western Kentucky last season and a win at LA Tech in 2018-19. That year, the team compiled a 3-0 start for the first time in program history. Under head coach Jalie Mitchell, UNT is 3-2 all-time when beginning league play.
New Versus Old
The Mean Green welcomed back a solid core of contributors from last season, including leading scorers Destinee McDowell and N'Yah Boyd. Transfers Quincy Noble, Destiny Brooks, Rochelle Lee and Emma Villas-Gomis are eligible for competition for the Mean Green in 2020-21 along with freshmen Tommisha Lampkin and Maddie Cleary. To date, the group of returners is posting 48 points per contest, while the newbies contribute 35.
A Noble Start
Quincy Noble has already made a name for herself four games into her career with the Mean Green. The redshirt sophomore put up a career-high 30 points against Louisiana Dec. 4 and knocked down five 3-pointers, the fifth-highest total ever recorded by a North Texas player. Against UTA Dec. 19, she recorded game-highs of 22 points and nine rebounds and made the most of her North Texas debut with a team-high 17 points in a season-opening win over Tarleton Nov. 25. Noble ranks second in the league in accuracy from the 3-point line at over 45-percent and ranks fourth in 3s per game at 3.0 per contest.
Deep Improvement
The Mean Green struggled from the 3-point line last season by connecting on just 27.8 percent of their attempts, ranking them 300 of the 348 teams in NCAA Division I. So far in 2020-21, the team is hitting at a 38.7-percent clip to sit 21st in the nation and second in Conference USA.
Boyd Named C-USA Player Of The Week
DALLAS (Dec. 28, 2020) – N'Yah Boyd of North Texas earned Conference USA Player of the Week honors for her performance against Oklahoma State Dec. 22.
The sophomore guard scored a season-high 20 points against the Cowgirls. She also stuffed the stat sheet with a team-high five assists, four rebounds, a pair of steals and was nearly perfect from the free throw line, going 6-for-7.
Within the league, Boyd ranks third in free throw percentage (84-percent), fourth in assists per game (4.8) and sixth in assist-to-turnover ratio (1.71).
This is Boyd's first career honor.
Last Mean Green Outing
DENTON (Dec. 22, 2020) – N'Yah Boyd scored a season-high 20 points for North Texas women's basketball, but a 21-8 run by Oklahoma State in the second quarter pushed the Cowgirls past the Mean Green, 82-68, Saturday inside The Super Pit.
Boyd also posted a team-high five assists, four rebounds and a pair of steals. Quincy Noble kept her season streak of double-digit scoring alive with 16 points, Destiny Brooks recorded 11, and Madison Townley added 10. The Mean Green (3-2) had trouble containing Natasha Mack of OSU (6-2, 2-0 Big 12) who dominated inside with 31 points and 14 rebounds.
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