UNT falls apart late in loss to Warhawks

[Harry]

MONROE, La. — Louisiana-Monroe was about as far down as a college basketball team could be heading into its game against
North Texas on Thursday.

The Warhawks had lost nine straight and had dropped each of their last three games by at least 10 points.

ULM came out of its funk against the Mean Green — not for long, a half at best — and handed UNT a second devastating
loss this season.

UNT was up 15 early in the second half, only to see ULM get on a roll and run away for an 85-73 win at Fant-Ewing
Coliseum.

ULM (4-17, 3-12 Sun Belt) has won just
four games all season, with two of them coming against the Mean Green (9-18,
4-12).

“That last 15 minutes, we played some of the worst basketball we have played all season,” UNT forward Roger Franklin
said. “We had them down 15 and let them score 50 points in 15 minutes. We had them down and needed to step on their neck and chose not to. Since we didn’t
put them away, they came back and hit us and we couldn’t do anything about it.”

ULM entered the night averaging just 59.9 points per game, a total that ranked last in the Sun Belt Conference, and
had surpassed the 80-point mark just once this season — in an 81-68 win over the Mean Green.

Amos Olatayo led ULM with 22 points.

Millaun Brown, who came into the night averaging 5.6 points a game, added 21 and Trent Mackey 18 for the Warhawks.

“We scored enough points, but defensively we were terrible,” UNT coach Tony Benford said. “It was our worst
defensive night of the year.

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[UNT90]

This reminds me of another disastrous trip to ULM when the coach also should have been fired for the performance of his team. He wasn't and Benford won't either.

Lets hope this Bemford coached team responses the way that other team did.

I put the chances of that at.... 0.00045%

[glick1980]

I would honestly be fine if we just forfeited the rest of the games this season.

[foutsrouts]

I would honestly be fine if we just forfeited the rest of the games this season.

Me too. I'm just sick of this. Use the savings to assist in the buyout.

[emmitt01]

This reminds me of another disastrous trip to ULM when the coach also should have been fired for the performance of his team. He wasn't and Benford won't either.

Lets hope this Bemford coached team responses the way that other team did.

I put the chances of that at.... 0.00045%

You're vastly overestimating.