NT web site: women BB beats UC Irvine 90-59

[OldTimer]

Mean Green Scores A Season-High 90 Points In Victory

Courtesy: University of North Texas

Release: 12/20/2005

Courtesy: Rick Yeatts

DENTON (12/20/05) – The North Texas women’s basketball team returned to winning ways with a 90-59 victory against UC-Irvine on Tuesday night in the Super Pit.

The Mean Green (8-2) responded with a high-tempo offense after Texas snapped its five-game winning streak on Sunday night. NT took the advantage, 4-3, in the series against the Anteaters (1-8) and improved to 6-0 at home for the third time in eight seasons.

“I was very pleased with the way we came out and played the first and second half,” said North Texas head coach Tina Slinker. “We needed to get back on track offensively, and we were able to do that tonight. I was very proud of the way Mian and Mia played this evening. We really played well defensively and were able to create a lot of turnovers."

The team scored a season high in points, tallying the most points scored in a game since 2003 against Denver. North Texas scored 90 points for the 17th time in 17 years in the Tina Slinker era. The 31-point margin was the largest since an 82-54 win against Alcorn State in 2002.

Senior guard Mian Williams led three players in double figures with 15 points, including 12 in the first half. Senior guard Erika Bobo posted 10 points and led the team with seven rebounds.

“Texas showed us we need to play 40 minutes,” said Mian Williams. “We just tried to play 40 minutes strong tonight.”

The Mean Green jumped out to a 10-0 lead with four of the five starters contributing to the score. NT continued to extend the lead to 17 points, 24-7, in the first half, finding the post players and running the court in transition.

Junior Mia Ajekwu contributed 12 points, while Amber Jackson recorded nine tallies. The team shot a season-high 46.3 percent from field-goal range.

The Mean Green started the second half with a 15-5 run and increased its advantage to as many as 34 points, 86-52, with 2:32 left in the game.

North Texas returns to action on Thursday, Dec. 22 when it faces Prairie View A&M at 6 pm.

[MeanGreenThing]

It was a great win.

But I love how the women blow somebody out and its sunshine and roses. Then men win by 54 and yet somehow they still looked mediocre?

[CMJ]

Well, the school the guys blew out wasn't even D1. But I do see(and sort of agree with) your point.

[UNT_92_Fan]

I think that the guys looked really good during the first half....i dont care who u play...its not easy to go up 30-0 on a college team...no matter what damn division they are. As far as then second half, If they were half as bored as the fans seemed to be then yeah sluggish play might be reasonable. But who cares...the team they played was trash...we beat them very convincingly and we move on to the upset on friday night....

[PlummMeanGreen]

I still marvel at our alma mater's athletic modus operendi.......Seems we sometimes do more for non-North Texas graduated employees than we do for some North Texas Exes.

In your sector of business (assuming that positive production is a requirement and criteria) would you get 17 years to get it all figured out (especially if in your first 7-10 years you were not all that productive or successful)? In my sector of business, sometimes you don't even get 17 weeks if you miss the target.

We are all proud of our NT Lady Eagle's academic accomplishments from the recent report that showed their GPA's from 5 years ago, but something tells me that most NCAA D1-A school's varsity sports head coach's (for both men and women) don't get hired to be academic specialists or tutors. Nor do most NCAA D1-A programs get their programs into the Top 50 merely because they have some students who succeed only in the classroom. If we are recruiting students for that, just give them academic scholarships and let them play intramural flag football on the intramural football fields or basketball in the PEB or old Men's Gym.

Our alma mater just simply continues to amaze (and depress) me with some of its hiring procedures (and retainment of non-productive) employees. Non-productive? I mean that as how we compare with 118 other NCAA D1-A schools, not schools at any other level such as schools who have "Ant-eaters" as a freakin' mascot. Sorry, but Prairie View A&M as fine a schools as it is, also should not be a measurement of our program, either.

So I guess job security for many UNT employees is the least of their concerns? Any of you know any other NCAA D1-A programs who gives some of its key athletic employees as much time to succeed? I (for one) have never heard of one and can't ever remember hearing or reading about such a benevolent school in my 40 plus years of following college athletics at the major college status.

You who get excited about UNT beating the "sisters of the poor" I guess our present situation in the NT athletic department is just what the doctor ordered, but I gurarantee you when most of our present NT varsity coaches apply for other jobs, it won't be at the lower level they are (sometimes) beating that seems to satisfy way too many of my fellow alums who just seem to be laying back and enjoying it while its happening to them. Former Aggie Clayton Williams once said something similar when he ran for governor of Texas and some even think the "just lay back and enjoy it" quote cost him an election back in that day. The question I have to my fellow NT Exes and fellow Mean Green fans is: What is all this costing us now?

GOD BLESS TEXAS!

Edited December 22, 2005 by PlummMeanGreen

[CMJ]

Plumm...UC-Irvine used to be in the same conference as us. Hell it hasn't even been 10 years since we left the Big West. The thrashing we gave out wasn't a "sister of the poor" one.

[GrandGreen]

Plumm...UC-Irvine used to be in the same conference as us.  Hell it hasn't even been 10 years since we left the Big West.  The thrashing we gave out wasn't a "sister of the poor" one. 

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NT did what they are supposed to against a team like UC-Irvine. But if UC-Irvine at 1-8 and ranked 312 in the sagarins doesn't qualify for a poor team, who does? NT did beat UCI worse than any team other than UCLA.