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A few weeks ago I penciled in 4,200 for this game...was just going with a simple round number. Turned out I was only off by 1 as 4,199 attended the season finale at the Super Pit. Those that attended were treated to Atin Wright's 42 point performance which is the best this year in the AAC and just 1 shy of the all-time AAC single game scoring record. As we know, we had one more home game this season compared to last season. In total, 55,531 came out this season to watch the men rack up a 15-1 home court record. At 4,199, the final game was the second-highest attended game this year only behind the 5,032 that came out for UTSA (I guess we really don't like those guys). We had 5 games (almost a third) with attendance in excess of 4K and 1 in excess of 5K. In comparison, last season we had 7 games in excess of 4K with three of those over 5K. In terms of averages, we had 3,471 attend per game which was down 661 or 16.01% per game. Was hoping for some YoY growth given the momentum this program has been building, but without that big draw game and a missing-in-action marketing and promotional effort during our traditional slow period, it wasn't meant to be. I'll have a season wrap-up post with some additional thoughts in a few days.

1 Atin Wright North Texas Sr. 6-1 G 29 89 94 94.68 2 Khalif Battle Gonzaga Sr. 6-5 G 31 107 114 93.86 3 Ace Baldwin Jr. Penn St. Sr. 6-0 G 29 150 160 93.75 NCAA College Men's Basketball DI current individual Stats | NCAA.com

UTSA’s Jenkins Named 2025 American Athletic Conference Player of the Year First Team All-Conference Amiya Joyner, Jr., F, East Carolina Tommisha Lampkin, Sr., F, North Texas* Tilly Boler, 5th, G, Memphis Malia Fisher, Sr., F, Rice Sammie Puisis, Gr., G, South Florida Tiarra East, Sr., G, Temple Tarriyonna Gary, 5th, G, Temple Jordyn Jenkins, R-Sr., F, UTSA* Sherese Pittman, Sr., F, Tulane Delanie Crawford, Sr., G, Tulsa* Second Team All-Conference Jade Weathersby, So., F, UAB Mya Perry, Jr., G, Florida Atlantic Alasia Smith, 5th, F, Memphis Desiree Wooten, So., G, North Texas Dominique Ennis, Jr., G, Rice Carla Brito, Jr., F, South Florida Kyren Whittington, R-Sr., G, Tulane Nina De Leon Negron, Gr., G, UTSA Idara Udo, So., F, UTSA Jayla Murray, R-Jr., F, Wichita State

Massie looked to me like he was ready to play last night but given the physicality of Charlotte I am glad he was held out.

Maybe its about a pipeline. Other teams are out there developing our players. We develop some kids and if they stick around, they may play when their time comes. Or, they may learn that "what I did at NT wasn't enough and I need to get my butt in gear if I wanna play over there at the new school". We need quality practice players for our starters to match up with...so its more than just about the playing time. Its about a TEAM! It's about FAMILY! Its about being a part of something bigger than self. I think Ross and staff are very honest with the HS kids they bring in. They tell them that they shouldn't expect to play unless they can compete with Jr.s and Sr.s. Most cant.