Thursday's result: North Texas 86, FAU 69
Defense rests
> North Texas 86, FAU 69: The Owls’ five-game winning streak comes to an end when they can’t stop the Mean Green in an easy 86-69 victory for UNT on Thursday night in Denton, Texas.
Originally published on
2/4/2010
by
FAUOwlAccess Staff Report
> Boxscore: Stats from the game
> Audio: Mike Jarvis' post-game interview with ESPN760
DENTON, Texas – Florida Atlantic has been the hot team in the Sun Belt Conference lately.
You wouldn’t have known it by the way they played Thursday.
Riding a five-game winning streak, the Owls couldn’t find a way to stop North Texas as the Mean Green defeated FAU 86-69 at the Super Pit.
“When you come into somebody else’s house you better take care of the basketball, run your offense and you have to play some defense,” FAU coach Mike Jarvis said on his post-game radio show on ESPN 760. “We didn’t do any of that.”
North Texas shot 64 percent from the floor and led by as many as 20 points.
The Owls trailed 45-27 at halftime but an early second half 9-0 spurt helped them pull to within 51-44 with 13:50 remaining. However, the Mean Green went on a 9-0 run of their own to extend their lead to 60-44.
The loss drops FAU into a three-way tie at the top of the Sun Belt’s East Division after Middle Tennessee lost to Troy.
GameCenter: North Texas 86, FAU 69
Moving forward: The little-used DeMonte Simpson had nine points on 4-of-5 shooting from the field. …Ray Taylor had 14 points, the first time he’s scored in double-figures in four games. …Alex Tucker had 10 points and five assists
Moving backward: Brett Royster fouled out with 8 minutes remaining. …Shavar Richardson was 1-of-5 from the field. …The Owls were pounded on the boards and were outrebounded 37-21
Stat download: 38.5 percent – The Owls’ shooting percentage on free throws
Up Next: FAU is at Denver at 6 p.m. Saturday
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- FAU 4, North Texas 4 @ 1st half <16 media timeout: Sloppy going in Denton. Each team has four turnovers already.
- North Texas 24, FAU 11 @ 1st half <12 media timeout: Mean Green’s Tramiel already has 11 and points and UNT just ripped off a11-0 run
- North Texas 30, FAU 19 @ 1st half <8 media timeout: Mean Green shooting 64 percent from floor
- North Texas 34, FAU 19 @ 1st half <4 media timeout: FAU just 1-of-6 from behind the arc
- Halftime: North Texas 45, FAU 27…Mean Green close out half on 9-0 run.
- North Texas 49, FAU 38 @ 2nd half <16 media timeout: FAU chipping into lead winning second half 11-4
- North Texas 58, FAU 44 @ 2nd half <12 media timeout: Owls cut it to 7, before UNT woke up and scored the last 7 points…Simpson has 4 fouls
- North Texas 73, FAU 57 @ 2nd half <8 media timeout: FAU’s bigs are in foul trouble. Royster has fouled out and Simpson has 4 fouls
- North Texas 77, FAU 63 @ 2nd half <4 media timeout: I thought Denver was going to be the tougher game of this road trip – and it still might be
- FINAL: North Texas 86, FAU 69…Owls (12-11, 8-4) in 3-way tie with Troy and MTSU at top of Sun Belt’s East Division