LITTLE ROCK - North Texas (16-12, 9-6 SBC) made all five of its field goal attempts and went 6-of-7 at the foul line in overtime to hand the UALR men's basketball team (14-15, 11-4) a 75-67 loss at the Jack Stephens Center on Thursday night. Alzee Williams scored a game-high 25 points and Tony Mitchell added a 13-point, 16-rebound double-double to help the Mean Green deny UALR's bid to clinch the No. 2 seed in the Sun Belt Tournament and an outright West Division championship.
Senior D'Andre Williams and sophomore Chuck Guy paced the Trojans with 18 and 16 points, respectively, while senior Courtney Jackson recorded his first double-double of the year with a 12-point, 14-rebound performance. UALR outscored North Texas 25-to-11 at the foul line, but shot just 31.6 percent from the floor while surrendering a .460 field goal percentage to the Mean Green.
UALR trailed 59-54 with 2:48 left to play in regulation, but rallied to force overtime as Jackson scored on a layup with 2:10 remaining and Guy evened things up at 59-all with a three-point play with 1:26 left in the game. Both teams had a chance to win in overtime, but the two squads combined to go 0-for-3 from three-point range over the final 49 seconds. North Texas had the last possession in regulation after Guy missed a three pointer with 27 seconds left, but Alzee Williams came up short on a contested three-point attempt as time expired.
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