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  1. Edwards Named AAC Player of the Week

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    22 hours ago, aprice said:

    it looks like to me like Ross has finally decided to ditch the idea of Scott/Jones being the primary scorers and ball handlers, thank god.  They are fantastic role players, but i don't see them as primary scoring threats or facilitators

     

    I think Rubin's defensive skills are top notch.  That needs to be taken in consideration when discussing lineups.  I also think he is the best ball handler on the team although he is not a true point guard.  The kid we just signed is though.

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    The end of college football as we know it

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    Excuse me if I post one other excerpt, this one really grabbed me at pertinent to the situation and how I feel about the changes (not good):

    In the long term, these changes to college football seem potentially fatal. Sure, in the short term, they’ll work: I’m as excited to watch next year’s 12-team College Football Playoff as anyone. But in the long term, when you pattern yourself after the NFL in order to get some of their television juice, when you jettison the traditions and orthodoxies that made people fall in love with the sport in the first place, you stop being college football: You simply become Minor League NFL. And no one cares about minor league anything.

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  10. The end of college football as we know it

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    On Monday night, college football as we know it will end. After Michigan plays Washington in the College Football Playoff Championship Game in Houston, the sport will fundamentally reconstruct itself.

    Washington, UCLA, USC and Oregon will join the Big Ten; Oklahoma and Texas will join the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The College Football Playoff will expand to 12 teams, while the Pac-12, a conference that originated in 1915, just three years after Arizona became a state, will wither and die.

    This is the end. And it is also, of course, just the start.

    What did 2023 teach us about what we should be prepared for in the years to come? Here are six lessons from The Last Season Of College Football As We Knew It.

    The death of conferences is only beginning

    The death of the Pac-12, a conference that went from having its own cable channel to no longer existing seemingly overnight, is one of the more stunning things to happen in college sports in decades. Its disappearance leaves only four major conferences, but if you’re in the Big 12 or (especially) the ACC, you shouldn’t breathe all that easy just yet.

    read more:  https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/06/opinions/college-football-playoff-championship-leitch?cid=ios_app

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  11. Mean Green, Edwards Stifles Tulane In 70-56 Win

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    DENTON – Behind a 37-point performance by Jason Edwards where he made his first eight 3-point shots, the UNT men’s basketball team beat Tulane 70-56 at the Super Pit Saturday afternoon while also missing two of its starters.

     

    The Mean Green (9-5, 2-0) who were without senior point guard Rubin Jones and junior sharpshooter John Buggs III due to injury on Saturday held the league’s No. 1 scoring offense Green Wave (10-4, 1-1) to a season low 56 points. It’s 33 points below their season average and 10 points less than anyone else has held them this year.

     

    The win is the Mean Green’s fourth straight and 15th straight at home. Marking its longest home winning streak since 2011. The win improves them to 2-0 in conference and comes on short rest as they played at Wichita State Thursday night — they beat the Shockers 74-62.

     

    “We know when we stick together and play as a team we can do a lot,” said senior Robert Allen who grabbed a season-high 16 rebounds Saturday. “We pride ourselves on defense and I think the key to having a strong defense is playing together and we did that today.”

     

    North Texas led by as many as 16 points on Saturday and held the explosive Tulane offense to just 5-of-18 shooting from 3 and 37.3 percent shooting overall. Tulane entered Saturday averaging over 75 possessions per game. The Mean Green limited them to just 60 on Saturday.

     

    Offensively, UNT was led by the newcomer Edwards who poured in a career-high 37 points versus Tulane. He scored 22 in the first half to lead his team to a 10-point halftime lead.

     

    Edwards was unconscious from deep on Saturday. The 6-foot guard sank his first eight 3-point shots before finally missing a corner 3-pointer with 7:24 remaining in the game. He finished the game 8-of-10 from deep and 10-of-15 from the floor overall. He added a season-high nine free throws as well.

     

    The 37 points Edwards scored on Saturday is the most by a UNT player this season and the most since Abou Ousmane scored 37 at UTSA last year. His eight made 3-pointers are the most by a Mean Green player since Roosevelt Smart made 10 at Rice on Jan. 23, 2018.

     

    “In reality even when I miss I believe I’m hot,” Edwards said laughing. “But after I hit those first couple, I knew it was going to be a good game.”

     

    “When we play together and are focused on winning as a team and for each other, we can do anything,” he added.

     

    Newcomer CJ Noland added 14 points, most coming late in the game to seal victory. UNT junior Aaron Scott had his second double-double of the year as he finished with 10 points and 12 rebounds.

     

    UNT has a week of before they play again. The Mean Green host Temple on Jan. 13 at the Super Pit. The game is scheduled to tip-off at 5 p.m. CT and will be broadcast on ESPNU and the Mean Green Sports Network, presented by Learfield.

     

    For more information on UNT men's basketball tickets, contact the Mean Green Ticket Office at 940-565-2527 or at ticketoffice@unt.edu. Fans can visit the UNT Athletics Ticket Office located at Gate 2 of DATCU Stadium between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.

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  18. Seth Littrell Sighting

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    1 minute ago, KingDL1 said:

    I think scheduling more winnable games didn't have much to do with the coach. For the last several years, we have had schedules that I thought Dickey's teams could have won, so I don't think Seth had much to do with that. Seth lucked out with Fine. 

    Agree with this.  Fine was a big win for Seth.

  24. UTA (12/23/2023)

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    7 hours ago, BigWillie said:

    Yes, I am with you. I enjoyed this win. Looking at the glass half empty side, we did rely on 3 pt shooting at a crazy pace to do it. Kinda like the way the Mavs (Dallas that is) play. Live or die by it. 

    If this does unlock some shooting for us, it is at a perfect time. I guess it will be interesting to watch!

    But the 3 point shooting has been negligible for most of this season and definitely the losses.

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