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North Texas (7-14 2-6) fell to the Rice Owls, extending the losing streak to five games. Despite putting up 87 points, the defense couldn’t stop the Owls offense. \u00a0The Mean Green bench also contributed very little — shooting\u00a01 of 4 (25%) from the floor, making \u00a01 of 2 (50%) from behind the arc, and shot no free throws while contributing 0 rebounds, 0 assists, 0 steals, 0 blocks, picked up 5 fouls, and committed 3 turnovers in 20 minutes of play.<\/p>\n
Today’s player of the game was Jeremy Combs<\/a>, who picked up his seventh consecutive double-double. Combs was 9 of 10 (90%) from the floor and 7 of 10 (70%) from the charity stripe for a total of 25 points while picking up 13 total rebounds (7 offensive; 6 defensive). He also had 3 assists, 1 block, 2 steals with 1 turnover on 38 minutes of play.<\/p>\n Also in double figures was J-Mychal Reese<\/a> (23), Eric Katenda<\/a> (16), Deckie Johnson<\/a> (10), and Ja’Michael Brown<\/a> (10). Carrington Ward<\/a> was the only bench player to score any points in the game.<\/p>\n Rickey Brice Jr.<\/a> was unavailable to play in the game due to a lingering injury (Concussion).<\/p>\n Game stats<\/a> have been posted.<\/p>\n North Texas returns to the SuperPit to play the Southern Miss Golden Eagles on Thursday, February 4th at 8:00 PM<\/strong>. The game will be televised on the American Sports Network<\/a> in addition to KHYI<\/a>\u00a0for the radio broadcast. The Women’s Basketball game starts at 6:00 PM so I imagine KNTU<\/a> will join upon the conclusion of that game.\u00a0EDIT:<\/strong>\u00a0Tip-off has been moved back an hour from 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM, perhaps due to TV coverage for the game.<\/p>\n At this point in the season, you have to start to wonder given the recent lack of production by the North Texas bench whether the Mean Green can manage many more wins on the season. \u00a0Over the current 5 games losing streak, the North Texas bench has been out-scored 33 to 165.<\/p>\n The bench must increase its production in all statistical categories otherwise I predict this team will lose most of its remaining 10 games. \u00a0You are starting to see this team fade late in games, starting around the 10:00 mark of the second half, which is due to the starters having to play 35 minutes or more for each and every game.<\/p>\n North Texas (7-14 2-6) fell to the Rice Owls, extending the losing streak to five games. The Mean Green Bench also contributed little to the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basketball","category-stats"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9ebqr-4a","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntsportsstats.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntsportsstats.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntsportsstats.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntsportsstats.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntsportsstats.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntsportsstats.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntsportsstats.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntsportsstats.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntsportsstats.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Hot Sports Opinion<\/h4>\n
Bench Production<\/h5>\n
Opponent Mins Points Rebs Asst Blocks Steals<\/span>\r\nMarshall 63 15 14 0 2 3\r\nWestern Kentucky 41 7 2 0 4 0\r\nMiddle Tennessee 42 6 8 0 0 2\r\nUAB 27 2 4 0 0 0\r\nRice 20 3 0 0 0 0<\/pre>\nCurrent conference standings (as of 1\/31\/2016)<\/h4>\n
TEAM CONF GB OVR\r\nUAB 8-1 - 18-4\r\nMiddle Tennessee 7-2 1 15-6\r\nMarshall 7-2 1 11-11\r\nLouisiana Tech 4-3 3 15-5\r\nOld Dominion 5-4 3 12-10\r\nFlorida Intl 5-4 3 11-11\r\nSouthern Mississippi 4-4 3.5 7-12\r\nCharlotte 4-5 4 7-14\r\nFlorida Atlantic 4-5 4 6-16\r\nUTEP 3-5 4.5 11-10\r\nWestern Kentucky 3-6 5 11-11\r\nNorth Texas 2-6 5.5 7-14<\/strong><\/span>\r\nRice 2-6 5.5 7-14\r\nTexas San Antonio 2-7 6 4-18<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"