{"id":301,"date":"2016-03-08T22:02:56","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T04:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ntsportsstats.com\/site\/?p=301"},"modified":"2016-03-08T22:46:51","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T04:46:51","slug":"wbb-north-texas-defeats-fau-79-74-and-advances-to-second-round-of-cusa-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ntsportsstats.com\/site\/2016\/03\/08\/wbb-north-texas-defeats-fau-79-74-and-advances-to-second-round-of-cusa-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"WBB North Texas Defeats FAU 79-74 and Advances to Second Round of the CUSA Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Views: 170<\/p><h4>North Texas wins its first tournament game since the 2011-2012 Season<\/h4>\n<p>North Texas (11-18) defeated the Florida Atlantic Owls 79-74 in a closely fought battle. The Mean Green lead for much of the game but FAU battled back in the fourth quarter however it wasn&#8217;t enough to overtake a hot but evenly balanced offense that shot 48.1% (26-54) from the floor, 46.7% (7-15) from behind the arc, and 87.0% (20-23) from the free throw line.<\/p>\n<p>Five Mean Green players scored double digits, four of whom were starters &#8212; <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ntsportsstats.com\/stats\/Bball\/Player\/?p=37\" target=\"_blank\">Criner<\/a> (16)<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ntsportsstats.com\/stats\/Bball\/Player\/?p=38\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Adams<\/strong><\/a><strong> (15)<\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ntsportsstats.com\/stats\/Bball\/Player\/?p=35\" target=\"_blank\">Tac<\/a> (15)<\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ntsportsstats.com\/stats\/Bball\/Player\/?p=39\" target=\"_blank\">Ellison<\/a> (10)<\/strong>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ntsportsstats.com\/stats\/Bball\/Player\/?p=40\" target=\"_blank\">Jones<\/a> (14). \u00a0North Texas also put in its highest scoring game of the season at 79 points.<\/p>\n<p>First year Head Coach Jalie Mitchell became the fourth coach ever at North Texas to win a post-season game in their first year.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tuesday&#39;s game was the 1st time in which 5 players finished with 10+ points since March 5, 2015. Kas Williams almost made it 6 with 9 pts.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; UNT Women&#39;s Basketball (@MeanGreenWBB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MeanGreenWBB\/status\/707327050663600128?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 8, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>Game stats are available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ntsportsstats.com\/stats\/Bball\/Game\/?g=195\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Up next for North Texas is Old Dominion Wednesday at 1:30 CT. \u00a0KNTU will be covering the Men&#8217;s game but will resume coverage once the Men&#8217;s game is complete. \u00a0The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/americansportsnet.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">American Sports Network<\/a> has the coverage of the game on TV and is streaming the game for free.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Programming note: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KNTU881?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@KNTU881<\/a> will broadcast entirety of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MeanGreenMBB?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MeanGreenMBB<\/a> tomorrow beginning at 11:45. Will join <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MeanGreenWBB?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MeanGreenWBB<\/a> in progress after.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Scott Sidway (@ScottyTKO_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ScottyTKO_\/status\/707312128273752064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 8, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<h4>Post Game Recap<\/h4>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"2016 Women&#039;s Basketball Championship- Round 1North Texas vs  FAU Game Recap\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BVXm2Gvx8oE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Texas defeats Florida Atlantic to advance to the second round of the Conference USA Tournament to face Old Dominion.<\/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-301","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-4R","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntsportsstats.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301","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=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntsportsstats.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntsportsstats.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntsportsstats.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntsportsstats.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}