Mean Green Begin C-USA Championship

cousin oliver · March 8, 2023

FRISCO — After a historic 25-win regular season, the UNT men’s basketball team begins its 2023 Conference USA Championship run Thursday night in the quarterfinal round at The Ford Center at the Star in Frisco.

The Mean Green, who are the 11-team tournament’s No. 2 seed and earned a first round bye, will play the winner of FIU and Louisiana Tech at 8 p.m. CT. Thursday’s game will be broadcast on ESPN+ and the Mean Green Sports Network, presented by Learfield on The Varsity Network app.

For a second consecutive season, North Texas (25-6, 16-4) set the program record for regular season wins. This year they tied the program record for conference wins (16), which was set by last year’s team. The Mean Green enter the C-USA Championship having won 50 games of the last two years. It’s the most wins over a two-year span in program history. The 50 wins since the start of last year are tied with UAB for the most in the league and tied for the 12th-most in the nation.

UNT has done it all year with its defense that finished No. 1 in the nation in allowing the fewest points per game. After holding Western Kentucky to 33 points last Saturday in the regular season finale, North Texas is now holding its opponents to a national best 55.4 points per game.

What’s taken the Mean Green to the next level though has been the development of its offense. In conference, North Texas featured the league’s third-most efficient offense, averaging 109.5 points per 100 possessions. They were one of the best in C-USA at scoring around the rim and were the league’s best free throw shooting team.

After the season, UNT senior guard Tylor Perry was awarded as the league’s Player of the Year honor. Junior big man Abou Ousmane was also named all-conference, junior guard Rubin Jones was voted to the all-defensive team and Kai Huntsberry was named C-USA’s Newcomer of the Year.

Perry leads C-USA in six categories including win shares and 3-point field goal percentage and ranks in the top five in 17 categories. His 6.1 win share total is 8th-best in the nation.

North Texas swept both of its potential quarterfinal counterparts Louisiana Tech and FIU this season.

The Mean Green have not played FIU in the C-USA Championship since 2019 when they beat them in the first round, 71-57. North Texas has a lot more experience against the Bulldogs in the C-USA Championship. Under sixth-year North Texas head coach Grant McCasland, the Mean Green have matched up against LA Tech three times in the conference tournament including last season when they upset UNT in the semifinals, 42-36.

LA Tech and FIU are scheduled to tipoff in their first-round game at 8 p.m. CT on Wednesday.

If the Mean Green can advance on Thursday, they will play in the semifinals on Friday at 2 p.m. CT. The game will be broadcast on CBS Sports Network and the Mean Green Sports Network.

Contact the Mean Green Ticket Office at 940-565-2527 or by emailing ticketoffice@unt.edu.

UNTLifer · March 9, 2023

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cousin oliver · March 9, 2023

10 hours ago, UNTLifer said:

Please link the article.

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greenminer · March 9, 2023

19 minutes ago, cousin oliver said:

I don't think I can link something that is showing up in me email box?

Thank you for responding Oliver. Now we are getting somewhere.

These emails are not some private release exclusive to subscribers only. They are merely updates from the main website, emailed to you for your convenience.

For example, here is the MGS.com website for the same article.

IMO, if you have the time and energy to copy the email text, navigate to gomeangreen.com, click to start a new thread, paste the email, and click SUBMIT, then you have the time and energy to go to MGS.com and find the source link. It will likely be provided right there on the front page.