Mean Green Host Buffalo Monday

DENTON — The back-to-back defending Conference USA champion North Texas men's basketball team hosts Buffalo Monday at 7 p.m. CT at the Super Pit.

Monday's game will be streamed on ESPN+ with Kyle Youmans and Hank Dickenson on the broadcast. All Mean Green men's basketball games this season can be heard on the Mean Green Sports Network on KHYI 95.3FM and on the Varsity Network app with the voice of the Mean Green Dave Barnett on the call.

UNT (1-0) opened the 2021-22 campaign with a 84-53 home victory over Oklahoma Christian last Tuesday. North Texas was led by newcomer Tylor Perry who scored 22 points on just 10 shots. The win was head coach Grant McCasland's 100th as a DI head coach and it was the ninth straight year UNT has won a season opener.

Buffalo (0-1) dropped its season opener last Wednesday, 88-76, at No. 6 Michigan.

The Bulls were led by Jeenathan Williams who scored 32 points and had eight rebounds. Williams led UB is scoring last season at 17.6 points per game and was named Second-Team All-MAC after the season. Buffalo just nearly missed out on making the 2021 NCAA Tournament last season as they fell in the MAC Championship title game. They did make the NCAA Tournament recently in 2018 and 2019, both times winning their first game of the tournament.

Buffalo should be somewhat familiar with the Super Pit as they played in the arena this past March in their first round NIT matchup against Colorado State.

Monday will be the second all-time meeting between the two schools. UNT beat the Bulls 102-91 way back on Dec. 11, 1999 in a neutral site game in Bloomington, Indiana.

NEWS AND NOTES

Tylor Perry's 22-point performance was the highest scoring debut for a Mean Green newcomer since Roosevelt Smart scored 23 in his 2017 debut. Smart went on to set the single-season school record for points (742) and 3-pointers (133) that season.
Mardrez McBride has scored in double figures in now six straight games.
Thomas Bell recorded his second career double-double last week in UNT's win with 14 points and 12 rebounds.
Six UNT newcomers made their debuts last week for the Mean Green. The six combined for 32 points.
Entering this season UNT had just two different starting lineups over the last two seasons. On Tuesday returners Rubin Jones, Abou Ousmane and JJ Murray made their starting lineup debut.

NEXT UP
After Monday's game versus Buffalo North Texas hosts UT Arlington at the Super Pit on Thursday at 7 p.m.

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