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Brought my baby boy up here to watch every game today. Memphis is easily 90% of the crowd for this game against Wichita State, but the Shockers are up 20-10 at the 14:35 mark.

Just cause Elon is bringing that term back doesn't mean we should embrace it. Many on here have kids with special needs... be a bit more sensitive and intelligent. When you say retarded I can only think that you suffer from that as well.

No disrespect to Atin because I love watching him play and I’m glad he’s wearing green and black, but surely our HOF standards aren’t so low that a guy can come here and be very good (but not great) his senior year and get in

thank you for everyone that came out to pregame. We cooked just the right amount of food. It was a great crowd.

Biggest game in the History of Western Civilization.

I hope he doesn't forget to take his receipts with him.

The year we won the CUSA Tournament and defeated Purdue, we lost our regular season finale. Cool the breaks on jumping out a window or say we have no shot in Fort Worth. March Madness is called March Madness for a reason.

Orange seats would go a long way toward brightening up the place.

I would like to thank everyone for this forum to talk about UNT sports! I am a UNT alumni and got interested in UNT athletics when my youngest son started playing sports. Neither of my sons will watch games on TV so we started making it out to games. Basketball games are way more accessible than football so it has turned out to be an excellent family activity. They are both kinda shy, but when they bring their friends or cousins to the game they get loud! I am addicted now and have found there is no one out there that I can talk Mean Green Basketball with! No one cares! Baylor, Tech, A&M, UT or even TCU on the other hand? I don't really care about them. 😂 So I sincerely that you all!!! GMG

I’m just glad nobody on this thread panicked or knee jerked .

Posting this since I didn't see it mentioned anywhere on this forum. A fellow college basketball fan I know told me he heard a story on KERA 90.1 on Friday about UNT men's and women's basketball. I looked it up, and it was a short interview with Brett Vito. Not often that you hear about our basketball teams on KERA radio. Nice publicity! https://www.keranews.org/sports/2025-03-07/unt-built-what-might-be-the-best-overall-basketball-program-in-the-aac-heres-how

When did we get so high and mighty that an NIT bid is beneath us? Post season basketball builds the brand name and culture. It helps in recruiting players in the portal. Guys want to come play in a winning program.

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Hot sports opinion... I am thoroughly enjoying the second half of this game more that the first

This team was picked to finish 7th and lost 5 really good players in the portal. Coming into the season, if someone would have predicted that we would go 23-7 and finish 2nd in the conference, we would have said they were crazy. This team has flaws but has earned the right to keep playing regardless of the outcome in Ft. Worth. I feel like we have a good chance to win the AAC tournament but will still be proud of a great season and won't be mad about an NIT bid. Continue to build the brand name. Get to Dickies Arena Friday and GMG!

My wife did not seem as excited about seven home games as I was. I then explained that if you break down the ticket price per game, it was an absolute bargain, which led to her asking how much they cost. I then faked a medical emergency not to answer the question. 😁

Imagine what 7k of fans attending games every night would do for the Men's program and 3 to 4k for the Women's program would do? The Pit would be a hugely hostile place for visiting teams to play. A Fan can only dream.

Planning to do a little pregame tailgating in the Fouts lot beforehand. 8pm tip means a little time to sip whiskey. 🥃

Oh my goodness., We just won on a walk-off Grand Slam.

The current team has joined an exclusive group. Here are the teams that have won 20 games before the start of the conference tournament and their final regular season record: • 2022 - 2023 Team - 25-6 • 2021 - 2022 Team - 23-5 • 1975 - 1976 Team - 22-4 • 1977 - 1978 Team - 22-6 • 1976 - 1977 Team - 21-6 • 2009 - 2010 Team - 21-8 • 2019 - 2020 Team - 20-11 • 2018 - 2019 Team - 20-11 • 2024 - 2025 Team - 20-6 Really good group of fun squads. This team has been one as well.

Our spectator sports combine to go 6-0 this weekend. Softball swept four games at UTA's tournament, and the men's and women's basketball teams collected their 20th wins - this is the first time in school history both hoops teams have won 20 games. There are four more games left at The Pit this year, and make sure to hit up Lovelace for some softball games. Softball has dashed off to a 12-2 start.

The simple reason is incompetence combined with indifference and apathy along with a little bit of disdain.

What an absolute failure on the AD’s part. Don’t want to hear any excuses. Figure it out. So freaking embarrassing how unserious this athletic department is. Let me go ahead and respond for anyone that’s going to reply with any defense EXCUSE. I don’t hear a word you’re saying.

A very North Texas thing to do 😆. Time for UNT to realize it is a basketball school. Build a legit basketball arena and become an elite mid major.

I’ve got some terrible news for you. There are MANY who would substitute Saint Francis and Alabama St. with North Texas, etc. If you want the committee to get “the best 68 teams in,” get ready for a tournament full of P4’s. Not a tournament I care to watch. The opening weekend with all of the smaller schools is my favorite part of the tournament.

Wow. We've really come a long way. We're actually bemoaning playing in NIT 4 years in a row now??

Congrats to UAB. They played a really solid game today. It’s not a coincidence that the teams playing in the championship game have the 2 best players in the league on their teams in Lendenborg and Haggerty. Yax was the best player on the floor today and it really showed. UAB had an answer for every UNT push and potential momentum shift. They looked like defending AAC Champions today. UNT is a good team but not a great team. Hard playing, defensive minded, and gritty. But not the most talented. The reality is that we lost to the NCAA Tournament calibre opponents we faced this year (Memphis, UAB twice, Utah State, High Point, McNeese) competitively, but still lost them. Last comment: I’m really jealous of the Memphis traveling support. I realize we’re still building and don’t have their historical pedigree/success, but it’s clear we still have a lot of work to do to get up on their level.

Emmitt01's pre-game flask.

This is a pathetic joke. Unbelievable. I want the name of the person at the university who scheduled this. Who can find us a name?

This is on Mosley's boss.

Omg, our dancers... what the hell has happened...

We should Fed Ex them our condolences.

Don't overlook Arkansas State.

And in their previous game, they beat the Shockers. screw what they looked like in The Pit, we cannot take this lightly.

If Utah State makes in it as well, we should advertise that to potential future OOC opponents. 100% of teams who beat us in OOC play make the big dance. That's how well playing us will prepare you! Want to make the tournament? Book your game with North Texas today!

I don't think anyone WANTS the NIT per se. The only debate was if it'd be better to be one and done in the NCAAs vs a deep run to the semis of the NIT and/or win it. Having experienced both situations as a fan, I know which I preferred (NIT title). Since I don't know the future, anyone with a brain would rather take a chance at the NCAA Tournament because a Sweet 16 type of run (which given our defensive style of play would frustrate many/most schools and is a possibility) would be the biggest thing to happen to our athletic program since the Don January Golf National Championships. We can totally win the AAC this weekend. Should we do so, we're exactly the kind of squad your average 5 seed doesn't want to see.

The NIT isn't anything close to being the HOD Bowl. I don't think people realize how tough it even is to get into the NIT. There are over 350 D1 schools. You basically have to be in the top quarter to make it into either tournmnent. There are like 40 Bowl games...over 60% the schools that play DI football make one. Making the NIT is like...making the Gator Bowl or something. If somehow we ended up in the Gator Bowl that'd be the biggest deal the football team had ever accomplished.

In that timeline, I don't defect from UNT and am known as Eagle King where I constantly antagonize Coogfans.

stoked to be in the barn for this one. looking back, I think my last game in person was the 12/6/17 OT win v. Indiana State...I remember AJ Lawson hitting a clutch shot to send it to OT and closing them out in the extra 5. prior to that it was a Benford game (so a loss) at Rutgers in 2016.

Then let's go win the conference tournament for gosh sake. This will be the seventh straight conference tournament we've had homecourt advantage and we only have one title to show for it in the past six. Who knows where it'll be for the forseeable future. Let's take advantage!

Plan ahead. They did it exactly like you have described because they are academia and have never run a real business. Kind of like career politicians trying to meet a budget.

And we’re f’n 17-1 in the Super Pit. Pretty solid odds you’re winning the games you’re hosting in that building. This is infuriating.

This is the most North Texas thing ever. Have the team play a great game in front of probably the 2nd best crowd of the year with a walk off shot at the buzzer causing the place to erupt - only to find out we don’t get to host the Big12 opponent who our fans care about and have proven to show out for. Ross has to be beside himself and I don’t blame him. What a kick in the nuts. This has potentially huge ramifications. Going on the road to Stillwater - I swear if we drop that game… For OSU winning an NIT isn't program changing. For us, winning 2 in 3 years is massive program momentum, further cementing us as a Top Shelf mid-major.

There's some here who say we can't have an opinion without these. 🙂 Seriously, though, for the number of home games this year's season ticket is a bargain.

Settle down. Temple is 12-2 at home. This isn’t like the UTSA loss at the Super Pit.

I was thinking about this the other day and i think there are a couple of factors at play here, the primary one being that our basketball team doesn't sh*t the bed every season. Additionally though, the current state of roster turnover in for G5 schools in football makes it really hard to follow players. Even if you have the same issue with b-ball, it's only 8 guys and we see them mostly twice a week. Now let's go see these guys get some hardware.

Defeated the Owls last month fairly convincingly, but FAU is very tough at home. This is probably gonna be a street fight and a win would show a lot.