Whew!!

IslandEagle · December 12, 2004

Mean Green proved its mettle by holding off the Pam Am charge. Barnett and Watson played great tonight.

CMJ · December 12, 2004

Final was 92-85 after nearly blowing a huge lead. This could be a great learning experience for the guys...never take the foot off the pedal.

December 12, 2004

Barnett came up huge in the second half.

Coach · December 12, 2004

Barnett had his best game ever in green tonight, and he did all his damage in the second half after starting it horribly with 3 quick fouls. That shows a lot of character.

Watson was unreal. In the first several minutes of the game he was outscoring all of UTPA, and his big three pointer in the end was probably the biggest play of the game, it took the lead back out to 5 I believe and stopped the momentum UTPA had built. This was especially important because Hopkins was in foul trouble.

As CMJ said, you hate to see a big lead blown, but we got the win in the end anyway, and this may serve as a good lesson to help prevent that from happening again. SUMG mentioned on another thread that UTPA had won 10 straight home games, so it is good to knock off a hot shooting team that plays well at home like that.

We have a winning record, and it will stay like that for the rest of the year.

MeanGreenNation · December 12, 2004

Is Pan Am even any good. Aren't they just a mish mash of a bunch of reject players from all over?

UNTLifer · December 12, 2004

Is Pan Am even any good. Aren't they just a mish mash of a bunch of reject players from all over?

Not sure, but they did have a 10 game home court winning streak.

UNTSportsGuy · December 12, 2004

I missed the game tonight and was unable to catch it on the radio? I checked out the boxscore, Watson and Barnett went off tonight. Looks like Hopkins played well, and Sturns looks to have had a decent night also. Anything anyone could tell me more would be great, thanks.

Buford_Julep · December 12, 2004

UT-Pan Am probably won't be on national TV any time soon but they aren't exactly dog food either.

They are a division I independent that starts 5 seniors. Last season they dhad wins over NCAA tournament team Air Force, Baylor in Waco, Lamar, UT-San Antonio and Texas A&M Corpus Christi.

MeanGreen61 · December 12, 2004

UT-Pan Am probably won't be on national TV any time soon but they aren't exactly dog food either.
They are a division I independent that starts 5 seniors. Last season they dhad wins over NCAA tournament team Air Force, Baylor in Waco, Lamar, UT-San Antonio and Texas A&M Corpus Christi.

And they've got some tall timber in their front line at 7' & 6'11".

GoMeanGreen1999 · December 13, 2004

Boy, I completely missed this one....I kind of like playing a soft non-conf. schedule as it gives us a good chance to jell as a team before conf. starts.

December 13, 2004

We haven't had exactly a soft schedule up to this point.

UNT_92_Fan · December 13, 2004

My thoughts exactly....Soft schedule with Alabama (18th in the Nation) Texas (Somewhere up there...sorry) TCU (tough team...shoulda won) and even UNCW can be considered a tough one....there isn't much "softness" about it....

Yeah UTPA isn't a "top tier" team...but going in an beating them on there home court...where they hadn't lost in 10 games and were something like 15 of the last 18 game winners at home is impressive....that team beat a ranked air force last year if i remember exactly what was said correctly.... Not to mention now after that game last night....they have won 15 of 19 or whatever at home....but TWO of the loses have been handed to them by our very own MEAN GREEN