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For the fourth consecutive year, the North Texas men’s basketball team (24-8, 14-4 American Athletic Conference) accepted a bid to the National Invitational Tournament. As the No. 2 seed in the Dallas region, the Mean Green will host a home game against Furman (25-9, 13-3 Southern Conference) on March 19. The team received its invitation after its 66-56 March 15 AAC semifinals loss to UAB. Three days removed from the UAB loss, head coach Ross Hodge said the team took time in its meeting to talk on fully refocusing on the NIT. “These guys were all in on wanting to play again,” Hodge said. “They love playing basketball. They love each other. They’re human beings so obviously there’s a disappointment level associated with not being able to reach a goal you set.” Senior guard Jasper Floyd said the team needed to turn the page quickly after failing to reach its season-long goal of winning the conference championship. “Because of the work that we put in starting last summer, we were confident in our abilities to go and as a group win the American Conference Championships,” Floyd said. “But we weren’t able to do that and that was kind of shocking to us. [...] We’ve been blessed with another opportunity.” In its previous three NIT appearances, North Texas has gone a combined 7-2 in the tournament and won the championship in the 2022-2023 season. read more: https://www.ntdaily.com/sports/north-texas-accepts-nit-bid-to-make-4th-consecutive-appearance-blessed-with-another-opportunity/article_943b2ea4-036d-11f0-bd0a-f3c54ceef5f5.html

How Furman basketball made the NIT The Paladins won six of their last seven games. They reached the Southern Conference tournament championship game, but lost to Wofford and missed a chance to earn an automatic berth in the NCAA tournament Senior guard PJay Smith leads the Paladins in scoring, averaging 18 points per game. Alongside him is graduate student Nick Anderson, a guard who averaged 14.7 points per game and was a third-team All-SoCon selection. MORE: NIT 2025: Printable bracket, TV schedule, matchups for first round The most notable wins for the Paladins were against Belmont, Tulane, Princeton, three victories over Samford and a postseason victory over SoCon regular-season champion Chattanooga. This season’s 25 wins tied for second most in program history, behind only the school’s 28 wins in 2023. read more: https://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/sports/college/2025/03/17/furman-basketball-north-texas-nit-how-to-watch-what-to-know/82488097007/

The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights said it is investigating the University of North Texas and nearly four dozen other schools for engaging in “race-exclusionary practices in their graduate programs.” The department said Friday it believes the 45 universities are violating Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by being involved with a relatively small project that aims to promote racial diversity at business schools. The investigation is part of the Trump administration’s efforts to rid institutions of “diversity, equity and inclusion” programs. Read more at: https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/education/article302218744.html#storylink=cpy https://www.kvue.com/video/news/education/rice-unt-investigation-illegal-discrimination-dei/269-5f8d8e0d-4614-4051-b8e1-bdbf1852b98f

Probably not since he is going into the draft.

Where is everyone meeting up for beers and whatnot b4 the big game?