Weekend series huge for Marshall, North Texas

meangreen11 · February 23, 2021

No. 1, there will be a ton of Kelly green in the Cam Henderson Center.

No. 2, there will also be a lot of talent on the basketball floor.

North Texas (12-6 overall, 8-2 Conference USA) leads C-USA’s West Division as it gets set for the weekend trip to Huntington. The games are scheduled for 7 p.m. Friday and 2 p.m. Saturday.

“Defensively, they are a good team because they play hard and they are going to be physical,” D’Antoni said. “It’s just a good ball club that plays hard — coach has them playing hard — and they ring the basket with four shooters and one guy playing in, like almost everyone does. We saw them last year.”

On Monday, North Texas was projected as one of two Conference USA teams to make the NCAA Tournament, according to predictions by CBS Sports’ Jerry Palm, who also had Western Kentucky in the field.

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