{"id":325,"date":"2016-03-10T22:58:08","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T04:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ntsportsstats.com\/site\/?p=325"},"modified":"2016-03-10T22:58:08","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T04:58:08","slug":"mbb-north-texas-falls-to-western-kentucky-in-the-second-round-of-the-2016-cusa-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ntsportsstats.com\/site\/2016\/03\/10\/mbb-north-texas-falls-to-western-kentucky-in-the-second-round-of-the-2016-cusa-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"MBB North Texas Falls to Western Kentucky in the Second Round of the 2016 CUSA Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Views: 188<\/p><p>North Texas (12-20) fell to the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers at Legacy Arena in Birmingham, AL by a score of 84-76. \u00a0Poor shooting in the first half doomed the Mean Green as they shot just 12 of 35 (34.3%) from the floor, three of 11 (27.3%) from behind the arc, and one of seven (14.3%) from the free throw line. \u00a0North Texas also lost the rebounding battle 42-24.<\/p>\n<p>Four Mean Green players managed to get into double digits in the game &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ntsportsstats.com\/stats\/Bball\/Player\/?p=50\" target=\"_blank\">Eric Katenda<\/a> (22), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ntsportsstats.com\/stats\/Bball\/Player\/?p=48\" target=\"_blank\">Ja&#8217;Michael Brown<\/a> (14), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ntsportsstats.com\/stats\/Bball\/Player\/?p=46\" target=\"_blank\">Deckie Johnson<\/a> (12), and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ntsportsstats.com\/stats\/Bball\/Player\/?p=1\" target=\"_blank\">Carrington Ward<\/a> (10). \u00a0Katenda&#8217;s 22 points was also a career high for him in his final game in a Mean Green uniform.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Cosby, Johnson &amp; Snipes all hit double-figures as <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WKUBasketball?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@WKUBasketball<\/a> advances to play #1 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UAB_MBB?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@UAB_MBB<\/a> in tmrw&#39;s quarterfinal <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jlxWgCje3Y\">pic.twitter.com\/jlxWgCje3Y<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; C-USA MBK (@CUSAMBK) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CUSAMBK\/status\/707658381440327681?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 9, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>The status of Tony Benford is currently unknown. Rick Villareal, Athletics Director for North Texas, <a href=\"http:\/\/meangreenblog.dentonrc.com\/2016\/03\/villarreal-declines-to-comment-on-benfords-future.html\/\" target=\"_blank\">declined to comment<\/a> on the 54-73 (.425) Head Coach who just completed his fourth season. \u00a0Since taking over the program, the best the Men&#8217;s Basketball program has managed was a 16-16 season in the 2013-2014 season. Tony Benford coached teams are also 1-4 in post-season play.<\/p>\n<p>Game stats are available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ntsportsstats.com\/stats\/Bball\/Game\/?g=197\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I will be posting an outlook on the past season plus look into the future on how the 2016-2017 might look with a host of newcomers suiting up for the Mean Green next season some time next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Texas was bounced in the second round of the 2016 Conference USA Men&#8217;s Basketball Tournament by the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers.<\/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-325","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-5f","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntsportsstats.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325","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=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntsportsstats.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntsportsstats.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntsportsstats.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntsportsstats.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}