"Curse of the Black Uniforms" Bites North Texas Again, Ends Great Winning Streak

[ADLER]

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The players huddled during the game while trying to overcome the curse of the "Bad Luck Black" uniforms. 

   68

North Texas 23-5,   16-2 C-USA

   70

 UTEP 18-12,   11-7 C-USA

Score By Periods

Team	1	2	F
North Texas	21	47	68
UTEP	35	35	70

Mean Green Again Cursed By Wearing Fashion Colors, Win Streak Snapped At UTEP

EL PASO — The North Texas men's basketball team's 15-game winning streak came to an end Saturday at UTEP with a 70-68 defeat to the Miners to conclude the regular season. UNT (23-5, 16-2 C-USA) was down 17-2 to start the game and down 14 at the half but fought back by outscoring UTEP (18-12, 11-7 C-USA) 47-35 in the second half. However, they fell just short. "UTEP came out physical and made tough baskets to start the game," said head coach Grant McCasland. "I love the fight of our group but we didn't give them 40 minutes of toughness." North Texas was led Saturday by Thomas Bell who recorded his sixth career double-double finished with 20 points and 11 rebounds — seven of which were offensive rebounds. (RV) UNT who sealed the Conference USA West Division title last week with a 56-49 victory over Louisiana Tech at the Super Pit heads into the 2022 C-USA Men's Basketball Championship in Frisco next and will play Thursday in the quarterfinals. UNT is the reigning champs. "We just can't have starts like we did today," McCasland said. "But nothing has changed. I still love our fight and we're still the regular season champs. We know what we have to do next week in Frisco. We've done it before."

[bstnsportsfan3]

We have won games in the black uni's all year. Please tell me again how they are cursed?

[ADLER]

True, we have been able to overcome the curse several times, yet we always won in Green and White to build the streak.

Hopefully we learned our lesson and will just wear our school colors, Green and White, in perpetuity. 

[bstnsportsfan3]

Just now, ADLER said:

True, we have been able to overcome the curse several times, yet we always won in Green and White to build the streak.

Hopefully we learned our lesson and will just wear our school colors, Green and White, in perpetuity. 

So this is just an Adler doesn't like the black uniforms post...got it,  Just call it what it is next time instead of trying to make it about some curse.

[UNTLifer]

25 minutes ago, bstnsportsfan3 said:

So this is just an Adler doesn't like the black uniforms post...got it,  Just call it what it is next time instead of trying to make it about some curse.

But what if it is?

[ADLER]

Sure, that's all it was about, yeah, until the curse was actually invoked in El Paso.

We tempted fates one too many times and got beaten in a game we should have won.

 

 

Although really ugly in photographs, the black uniforms looked even worse on television.

 

 

Edited March 7, 2022 by ADLER

[ADLER]

It was the curse. It wasn't the other team when you shoot 53% free throws and only lose by two points.

Team Statistics

 

Team Statistics

Game Stats	UNT	UTEP
FG%	.511	.489
3FG%	.278	.455
FT%	.531	.840
RB	29	27
TO	14	15
STL	5	6

[NM Green]

I love how this team fights until the end. Utep was very excited it had a couple of extra points laying around or it could have been a truly rocking comeback in the desert. 

I second that let’s take a chainsaw to Frisco and let it rip!

GMG