North Texas Athletics announced its 2020 Football schedule on Wednesday. It has the usual West Division opponents plus flipped East Division opponents -- Middle Tennessee (away) and Charlotte (home). North Texas will open at home against Houston Baptist University on Sept. 5th and travel to play Texas A&M of the SEC. To close out the season, North Texas will again travel south on Interstate 35 to play UTSA in the Alamodome for some post-Turkey Day festivities. Depending on how the race for the West shapes out, this game could have Conference Championship implications. The Conference USA broadcast schedule will be announced later in the spring, typically around the end of May/beginning of June. Home 9/5 - Houston Baptist 9/19 - SMU
2019 Football Schedule Announced
Today, North Texas and Conference USA jointly announced the 2019 Football schedule. Click here for the full schedule. Times have not been set and exact dates could be shifted slightly to accommodate broadcast media. Last year the final schedule was set around the beginning of June. You can read the Denton Record Chronicle news article here highlighting the upcoming season. An interesting note regarding the 2019 schedule is that there are two bye weeks this year. North Texas will get a bye in weeks 6 (October 5th) and 12 (November 16th). These seem like they have been put into advantageous spots for the Mean Green as these will be before traveling to Southern Miss (and after Houston) and before traveling to Rice (and
FB: C-USA Announces Cross-Division Matchups for 2019 and 2020
Today, Conference USA announced all cross divisional matchups for the 2019 and 2020 football seasons. The press release mentions the complete conference football schedule will be announced later in the winter. Typically, this announcement has taken place close to the football National Signing Day, which is February 6th, 2019. Incomplete 2019 North Texas Football Schedule 8/31 – Abilene Christian 9/07 – at SMU 9/14 – at California 9/28 – Houston TBA – at Charlotte TBA – Middle Tennessee TBA – UTSA TBA – UAB TBA – UTEP TBA – at Rice TBA – at LaTech TBA – at Southern Miss Incomplete 2020 North Texas Football Schedule 9/05 – SMU 9/12 – at Texas A&M 9/19 – Houston Baptist 9-26 – at Houston TBA – Charlotte TBA – at Middle Tennessee TBA – at
WBB: North Texas Hits 100-Point Milestone for Fifth Time in Program History
Orianna Shillow hit a 3-pointer with 11 seconds left in the game to get the Mean Green (4-4) to the century mark for only the fifth time in program history. The game also saw four starters and two bench players in double digits. Everyone that played scored at least two points as well. The Mean Green exploded to start the second half scoring 33 points. North Texas also controlled the paint doubling up the Houston Baptist Huskies (4-3) 56-28. Double Digit Scorers Anisha George - 15 points Madison Townley - 14 points and 10 rebounds - her first career double-double. Terriell Bradley - 10 points Grace Goodhart - 10 points Velma Mitchell - 12 points Charlene Shepherd - 12 points Scores by Period 1st 2nd 3rd 4th Total Houston
MBB: North Texas Still Perfect in Overtime Thriller
North Texas (7-0) is off to its best start in 50 years where in 1968-69 the Mean Green started their season undefeated in seven wins. The matchup against the Maine Black Bears (0-5) took an overtime period to get it done but a win is a win. Still, it is quite alarming to see the Mean Green go cold in their shooting for more than nine minutes to finish out regulation. This team plays some solid defense though that will bail this team out of tough situations. The Mean Green also shot 83.3% from the charity stripe to keep extending their lead as the game clock wound down in the game. Zachary Simmons set a new career best 24 points on
MBB: North Texas Routs Maryland Eastern Shore Hawks on Strong Defense
North Texas (6-0) had a bit of an off night on shooting but the defense came up big against the Maryland Eastern Shore Hawks (0-4). The Mean Green held the Hawks to a low of 34 points, the lowest since 1947 when North Texas played Midwestern State and held the Mavericks (then called the Indians) to just 30 points. Zachary Simmons lead all scorers with 17 points on 31 minutes of action. He was seven of nine (77.8%!) from the floor including a single made three -- his first and only attempt of the season and as far as the blog can tell, his only attempt and make of his career -- and he made both of his free throw attempts.
MBB: North Texas Defeats Texas A&M Commerce to Remain Perfect on the Season
North Texas (5-0) tied a program record in draining 19 3-pointers against the Texas A&M Commerce Lions (3-0). The last time the Mean Green drained this many 3-pointers was against Mary Hardin Baylor on Nov. 25th, 1996. North Texas got a solid performance for many of its players in this game to maintain its perfect record of 5-0 and 2-0 at home. Umoja Gibson came up big again scoring 22 points to lead all scorers. He was eight of 13 (61.5%) from the floor and was six of 11 (54.5%) from 3-point range. He also added four total rebounds, four assists, and a steal to his total stat sheet on 25 minutes of play. Stuffing the Stat Sheet Also in double-digits were Jorden Duffy
WBB: #11 Texas’s Height Too Much to Overcome for the Mean Green
In a match-up of "Teacher versus Student" where Jalie Mitchell's Mean Green faced off against former Mean Green coach Karen Aston's (2011 15-16) University of Texas squad. Mitchell was coached by Aston when she was a player (1998 - 2002) and also served as an assistant coach (2011) for the one season Aston was the head coach for North Texas in addition to the University of Texas (2012-2015). Player of the game goes to senior Terriell Bradley who was six of 16 (37.5%) from the floor, three of seven (42.9%) from 3-point land, and made all three of her shots from the free throw line giving her a total of 18 points for the night. She also picked up seven total rebounds,
MBB: North Texas Defeats Hawaii to Win Rainbow Classic Tournament
North Texas (4-0) defeated the Hawaii Rainbow Warriors (2-1) 68-51 to sweep the tournament and bring home another piece of hardware to add to their collection. https://twitter.com/MeanGreenMBB/status/1062022522579767296 It's a bit tough to give a single player PotG recognition when there were two players scored 13 points and it was a total team effort to putting the Warriors away. Jorden Duffy scored 13 points on four of 10 (40%) shooting from the floor, two of six (33.3%) from behind the arc, and made all three of his shots from the free throw line. He also added seven total rebounds, and an assist on 32 minutes of action. Newcomer Jahmiah Simmons also scored 13 points on five of nine (55.6%) shooting from the floor, was 0
MBB: North Texas Grinds Out Win Against the Portland Pilots
North Texas (3-0) played its first Div. I opponent, the Portland Pilots (1-2), and grinded out a win 78-73. This was the most difficult opponent the Mean Green have faced in this young season and the team responded well despite some foul trouble hitting Umoja Gibson and Zach Simmons. Despite foul trouble through much of the game, sophomore Zach Simmons posted a career best 23 points. He was 10 of 12 (83.3%!) from the floor and made all three of his free throws on 27 minutes of action giving him .85 points per minute. He also picked up six rebounds, an assist, and a block despite finishing the game with four fouls. Ryan Woolridge also posted one of his best games contributing 22