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Boy man Torrey is running hard today!

Monarch hit a long pass over Mohammed. Inside the UNT 40.

Not good news for these players still being out coming after a bye. Here's to a speedy recovery.

Let's finish the season strong. GO MEAN GREEN!

https://portlandpilots.com/news/2018/11/8/mens-basketball-pilots-face-hawai-i-north-texas-at-rainbow-classic.aspx Portland (1-0) vs. North Texas (1-0)Date: Saturday, Nov. 10, 2018Time: 6:30 p.m. (PT)City: Hololulu, Hawai'iArena: Stan Sheriff Center (10,300)Radio: 910 ESPN-PortlandLive Links: Audio I StatsSeries: UNT leads 1-0 (Last meeting: UNT 77, @POR 72 – 2ot, 11/23/13)GAME INFORMATION Portland travels to Hawai'i this weekend to compete at the 54th Annual Outrigger Resorts Rainbow Classic. The Pilots (1-0) will face host Hawai'i on Friday at 9 p.m. (PT) and then take on North Texas on Saturday at 6:30 p.m. (PT). This is Portland's third appearance at the Rainbow Classic (1966, 2001).Pilots at the Rainbow Classic (2-4)...1966: Lost to Pacific (82-72), defeated Harvard (67-64) and Hawai'i (68-64)2001: Lost to Hawai'i (75-68), Holy Cross (60-43) and Arkansas State (77-74)GAME COVERAGEFriday's game will be televised live on Spectrum SportsNet in Hawai'i and available via video stream at HawaiiAthletics.com. Saturday's game will not have television or video coverage. Radio coverage of all Pilot games is on 910 ESPN-Portland (KMTT) with Jason Swygard calling the play-by-play. Live stats and online audio links are available for all games at PortlandPilots.com.PORTLAND NOTES• The Pilots cruised to a pair of exhibition wins against Antelope Valley (94-64) and Westmont (94-80) in the preseason. Portland opened the regular season with a 111-103 shootout win against Multnomah on Tuesday.• Junior G/F Josh McSwiggan recorded career highs of 37 points and 11 rebounds, while sophomore PG Marcus Shaver Jr. also had career bests of 23 points and nine assists.• The Pilots return four starters and six of the team's seven leading scorers, including Shaver Jr. who earned WCC All-Freshman Team and league honorable mention honors.• Shaver Jr. became the first Pilot to earn All-WCC Freshman Team honors since Taishi Ito in 2007 and first UP freshman to garner honorable mention status since Donald Wilson in 2003. He averaged a team-best 12.3 points per game overall and raised that to 12.6 points in league games.• McSwiggan also averaged double figures (10.9), led the team in three-pointers made (70) and shot 43.5 percent from beyond the arc.• Portland returns four redshirts to the lineup this season in Pittsburgh transfer G Crisshawn Clark, freshmen Hugh Hogland and Takiula Fahrensohn, and junior Xavier Hallinan.• Five other newcomers join the roster highlighted by 7-foot sophomore Jacob Tryon (East Los Angeles College). The freshmen newcomers include C Theo Akwuba who averaged a triple double with blocked shots in Montgomery, Ala., athletic F Josh Phillips, G Miles Turner, and F Wyatt Watson.• 2018 graduates Philipp Hartwich (Spain) and D'Marques Tyson (Portugal) signed professional contracts and join 10 other former Pilots playing professionally overseas this year.• Portland is scheduled to go to Hawai'i for the Rainbow Classic (Nov. 9-10), will host the Portland Classic over Thanksgiving weekend, and visits Colorado to highlight its non-league schedule.• Former Portland State head coach Tyler Geving has joined the Pilots as an interim assistant coach. Geving, who brings 20-plus years of coaching experience including eight at the helm of the Vikings, will fill in for Kramer Knutson who is on family leave.ABOUT HAWAI'I• The Rainbow Warriors will open the regular season on Friday. UH defeated Hawai'i Pacific 81-45 in the team's lone exhibition. The team is picked to finish sixth in the Big West Preseason Poll.• UH returns eight lettermen, but lost two of its top three scorers from last year's team that finished 17-13 overall. Senior G Sheriff Drammeh is the team's leading returning scorer (10.7).• Former Saint Mary's assistant Eran Ganot is in his fourth year as head coach at UH.• The Rainbow Warriors lead the all-time series with Portland by a 12-8 margin, including a 10-5 mark at home. The team's last met in the 2011 CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament with Hawai'i winning 76-64 at the Stan Sheriff Center.ABOUT NORTH TEXAS• The Mean Green (1-0) opened the regular season with an 89-55 win against Angelo State on Tuesday. Umoja Gibson, who missed all but two games last year due to injury, returned to score a game-high 32 points.• UNT returns a strong backcourt in Roosevelt Smart (19.5) and Ryan Woolridge (12.7) from a 20-win team that claimed the CBI Championship by defeating San Francisco in the finals.• UNT was picked fourth in the preseason Conference USA Poll.• Head Coach Grant McCasland is beginning his second year with the Mean Green.• UNT won the only meeting against Portland, a 77-72 double overtime thriller at the Chiles Center on Nov. 23, 2013.PORTLAND'S HAWAIIAN TIESPortland has two players on the roster with strong ties to Hawai'i. Redshirt freshman C Hugh Hogland was born and raised in Oah'u and a two-sport standout in volleyball and basketball at Iolani School. Sophomore PG Marcus Shaver Jr. lived in Oah'u for a majority of his childhood and still has many family members and friends living in Hawai'i.

Woolridge already has 6 boards!

Very valid thread even now more than ever.

this is bad! They will not let us beat TAMU. Think that Texas game from before that went to overtime.

I hope like you Seth will hang around a year or two more. The reality is that we need a plan B for if he leaves. Let me remind everyone that this is a problem we always wanted to have. No one wanted Mac, Dodge or Dickey as a head coach quite honestly. Johnny Jones is the only HC who was sought after around these parts in a long time. So let us be grateful for that. i hope that Wren will look for the best coach we can find and as Seth proved it does not have to be a current D-I HC. Seth’s new agent is checking out the market as one would expect — I would also hope our leaders are putting together their game plan and lists as well. We don’t want to be caught flat footed. GMG

What about Skip?

He hired a new agent just recently; has been mentioned as a possibility at KU, K-State and Louisville and I am sure many more to come. It’s probably an in case discussion but relevant.

Ominous C-USA score for tonight? FAU owns FIU 49-14.

38-31 SMU lead with like 8 minutes left in game. Houston will win is my guess but still good showing by ponies.

Are the K-State rumors true about Seth Littrell? Rumors are spreading that Littrell's "agent" has been in Manhattan recently, but GoPowercat checked with a source with knowledge of Littrell's representation and was told that no one from Littrell's camp has been in Manhattan on behalf of Littrell. Another source close to Littrell told GoPowercat that it's likely Littrell will sit tight at North Texas for the immediate future, which could be an indication he is eying the Oklahoma job in the case that Lincoln Riley is indeed hired by an NFL franchise. read more: https://247sports.com/college/kansas-state/Article/Kansas-State-football-new-head-coach-Seth-Littrell-K-State-Bill-Snyder-North-Texas-124092961/Amp/

And a trip down GMG.com memory lane (15 years ago) when we were just dreaming about a replacement for the old girl:

Here's another one, how do you see the point guard minutes playing out. Obviously, Mac has stated that he needs to reduce the minutes they give Ryan. Who do you see replacing him and how many minutes per game would be optimal? Could they replace him with a better free throw shooter in key situations etc.

Voted!

Maybe a topic could be free throw shooting and by how much can we expect that to improve one year to the next...

It's a good idea but TCU and SMU will never go for it.

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The guy who penned this article the day after he wrote it: