University of North Texas Athletics
NCAA Tournament: North Texas To Face Purdue
3/14/2021 5:00:00 PM | Men's Basketball
DENTON - The Mean Green men's basketball team on Sunday found out they will face Purdue in the first round of the 2021Â NCAA Tournament.
The first round game will be played on Friday March 19th at 6:25 p.m. CT. It'll be broadcast on TNT and the Mean Green Sports Network Learfield IMG College.Â
This will be North Texas' fourth trip to the NCAA Tournament and its first since 2010. Its No. 13 seeding is the highest its ever been seeded. Â
UNT (17-9) and Purdue (18-9) have only met once before and it was on Dec. 10, 1970 in West Lafayette, Indiana. The Boilermakers won 90-63.
The Mean Green earned an automatic bid into the 2021 NCAA Tournament after beating WKU Saturday night 61-57 in OT in the finals of the 2021Â Air Force Reserve Conference USA Basketball Championships. North Texas won four games in four days at the conference tournament, becoming the first team in the league to accomplish that since Houston in 2010.
Redshirt senior point guard Javion Hamlet was named the C-USA Championship MVP and senior forward Zachary Simmons was named to the five-man all tournament team.
A limited number of tickets will be made available to Mean Green Scholarship Fund members, season ticket holders and students. Information regarding how to request tickets will be emailed Sunday evening. Requests will be fulfilled based on MGSF priority points. Additional questions can be directed to the UNT Athletic Ticket Office at ticketoffice@unt.edu.
Stay tuned to meangreensports.com, or follow Mean Green men's basketball at @MeanGreenMBBÂ on Twitter.
