UT ARLINGTON 2019-2o MEN'S BASKETBALL PRESEASON QUICK FACTS MAVERICKS NCAA: 2008 | NIT: 1981, 2012, 2017 | CIT: 2013, 2016 Associate AD for Communications: Jason MacBain | Cell: 315.750.0236 | Email: [email protected] | Twitter: @JaBain GENERAL INFORMATION 2018-19 REVIEW Location...... Arlington, Overall Record...... 17-16 Global Enrollment...... 61,000 (Global) 43,000 (Campus) Sun Belt Record...... 12-6 Founded...... 1895 Sun Belt Finish...... T-2 ND Colors...... Blue, Orange & White Sun Belt Tournament Finish...... Finals (Second-Straight Year) Nickname...... Mavericks Home...... 9-5 Home Court...... Away...... 7-10 Capacity...... 7,000 Neutral...... 1-1 Conference Affiliation...... Postseason...... None President...... Dr. Vistasp Karbhari Director or Athletics...... Jim Baker 2019-20 ROSTER BREAKDOWN RETURNERS (9)...... 2018-19 NOTES COACHING STAFF #0 Sr. Brian Warren (S)...... 15.4 PPG | 2.6 RPG | 3.6 APG Head Coach...... Chris Ogden (Texas ‘04 / 2ND Year) Record At UTA...... 17-16 #2 So. Jordan Phillips....Played In 7 Games At Arkansas | Eligible Immediately (S) Career Record...... Same #3 So. Ayoub Nouhi .....2.5 PPG | 1.2 RPG | Started Final 16 Games Associate Head Coach...... Greg Young (Howard Payne ’86 / 11TH Year) #4 R-So. David Azore (S)...... 8.4 PPG | 4.2 RPG | 1.6 APG Assistant Coach...... Riley Davis (Texas ‘11 / 2ND Year) #10 Sr. Radshad Davis...... 8 PPG | 5.5 RPG | 1.3 APG Assistant Coach..... Royce ‘Snoop’ Johnson (Thomas Edison ‘13 / 2ND Year) #13 Sr. Jabari Narcis (S)...... 3.1 PPG | 3.1 RPG | 1.1 BPG #22 Sr. TiAndre Jackson-Young...... 6.7 PPG | 3.4 RPG SUPPORT STAFF #23 So. Patrick Mwamba (S)...... 3.3 PPG | 2.5 RPG ND Director Of Operations...... Parker Eidson (Tennessee ’16 / 2 Year) #33 R-Fr. McKade Marquis...... Reshirted Video Coordinator...... Matt McGann (Oklahoma State ’17 / 2ND Year) (S) Denotes Returning Starter (All Five Back) Strength Coach...... Dominick Walker (McMurry ’13 / 2ND Year) Athletic Trainer...... Chris Marrs (Illinois College ’14 / 2ND Year) Player Development Coordinator... Derrick Obasohan (UTA ’04 / 1ST Year) NEWCOMERS (7)...... 2018-19 NOTES Analytics Coordinator...... Matthew Winsberg (LSU ’17 / 1ST Year) #1 Fr. Sam Griffin...... 23 PPG | Florida First Team All-State Class 4A Operations Coordinator...... Peter Clark (Weber State ’18 / 1ST Year) #11 Fr. Hunter Lavelle...... 12 PPG | Texas District 8-4A First Team Administrative Assistant...... Rachael Holmes (McMurry ’13 / 2ND Year) #14 Jr. Davis Steelman.... 9.8 PPG In 2nd Year At New Mexico Military Inst. #20 Fr. Nicolas Elame.....Led Bella Vista Prep To Top-25 National Ranking HISTORY #21 Fr. Tre Jones...... 17 PPG | Texas All-State Selection Class 4A First Year of Basketball...... 1959-60 #35 Rs. Grayson Carter...Transferred From Georgetown After Fr. Year Total Years of Basketball...... 60 #43 R-Jr. Coleman Sparling...... 8.3 PPG | 2.1 APG At Southern Idaho All-Time Record...... 750-934 Overall Record in College Park Center (2012-Present)...... 78-28 LOST (6)...... NOTES Years In Sun Belt Conference...... 6 (2013-Present) #2 DJ Bryant...... Mutual Parting All-Time Sun Belt Record...... 68-44 (.607) #5 Edric Dennis...... Grad Transfer To TCU Sun Belt Regular Season Championships...... 1 (2017) #15 Scott Muirhead...... Walk-On; Graduated Sun Belt Tournament Championships...... 0 #20 Andres Ibarguen...... Eligibility Exhausted; Graduated #21 Pedro Castro...... Mutual Parting Years In Western Athletic Conference...... 1 (2012-13) #30 Patrick Binzer...... Walk-On; Graduated All-Time WAC Record...... 11-7 (.611) WAC Regular Season Championships...... 0 KEY STORYLINES • UTA has been one of the preeminent teams in the Sun Belt Con- Years In ...... 48 (1964-2012) ference this decade, having posted the second-best average RPI/NET All-Time Southland Record...... 289-354 (.442) among the league’s 12 teams over the last five years (UTA: 120; Geor- Southland Regular Season Championships...... 2 (2004, 2012) Southland Tournament Championships...... 1 (2008) gia State: 116). Additionally, since joining the Sun Belt in 2013-14, UTA is the only team in the league to finish in the top 5 of the confer- NCAA Tournament Appearances...... 1 (2008) ence standings all six years. Record In The NCAA Tournament...... 0-1 NIT Appearances...... 3 (1981, 2012, 2017) • In his initial ranking earlier this summer, ESPN Bracketologist Joe Lu- Record In The NIT...... 2-3 nardi installed UTA as the Sun Belt favorites in 2019-20 and predicted CIT Appearances...... 2 (2013, 2016) the Mavs to make the NCAA Tournament. Andy Katz from the NCAA Record In The CIT...... 1-2 also predicted UTA to make the NCAA Tournament in his preseason bracket. ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS Associate AD for Communications...... Jason MacBain • The Mavs return four of their top-5 scorers from last year’s team Cell / Office Phone...... 315.750.0236 / 817.272.2239 and will once again play a challenging non-conference schedule to E-Mail...... [email protected] prepare for the new, expanded 20-game Sun Belt docket. Mailing Address...... Box 19950, Arlington, TX 76019 Overnight/Shipping Address...... 601 Spaniolo Drive • UTA played the 7th-hardest non-conference schedule in the na- ...... College Park Center, Ste. 1102-E, Arlington, TX 76019 tion last year, and this year will play non-league contests against four Website...... UTAMavs.com NCAA Tournament teams, an NIT participant and a pair of other 20+ Twitter, Instagram & Facebook...... @UTAMavsMBB /UTAMavsMBB win clubs from a season ago. @UTAMavsMBB Preseason Quick Facts 2019-2o roster

No. Name Pos. Ht. Wt. Yr. Hometown / High School / Previous School(s) 0 Brian Warren G 5-9 170 Sr. Indianapolis, Ind. / Howe / Tyler JC 1 Sam Griffin G 6-3 175 Fr. Miami, Fla. / Westminster Academy 2 Jordan Phillips F 6-7 215 So. Fort Worth, Texas / Grace Prep / Arkansas 3 Ayoub Nouhi G/F 6-6 205 So. Brussels, Belgium / Institute Saint-Louis Namur

4 David Azore G 6-4 205 R-So. Houston, Texas / Clear Brook 10 Radshad Davis F 6-2 205 Sr. Nassau, Bahamas / Sunrise Christian / Missouri State-West Plains 11 Hunter Lavelle G 6-1 165 Fr. Argyle, Texas / Argyle 13 Jabari Narcis F 6-9 240 Sr. Chaguanas, Trinidad and Tobago / Chaguanas North / Jacksonville College 14 Davis Steelman G 6-3 185 Jr. Bedford, Texas / Berkner / New Mexico Military Institute 20 Nicolas Elame G 6-3 185 Fr. Paris, France / Bella Vista Prep 21 Tre Jones F 6-5 195 Fr. Arlington, Texas / Kennedale 22 TiAndre Jackson-Young F 6-4 200 Sr. Marshall, Texas / Marshall / Tyler JC 23 Patrick Mwamba F 6-6 196 So. Bukavu, Congo / Keur Madior International / NBA Academy Africa

33 McKade Marquis G 6-0 195 R-Fr. Whitehouse, Texas / Whitehouse 43 Coleman Sparling F 6-7 215 R-Jr. Ellensburg, Wash. / Ellensburg / Central Washington / College of Southern Idaho Grayson Carter * F 6-9 225 So. , Texas / Denton Guyer / Georgetown * Will sit out the 2019-20 season in accordance with NCAA transfer regulations. PRONOUNCIATION GUIDE 3: A-ube NEW-he 11: luh-VELLE 22: TEE-andre 4: AYE-zore 13: NAHR-sis 23: mm-WAMBA 10: ruh-SHAWHD 20: uh-LALM-eh 33: MAR-quisse 2018-19 summary

• In his first season leading UTA in 2018-19, Chris Ogden was • Entering 2018-19, UTA returned just 3.2 percent of its scor- named Sun Belt Coach of the Year after guiding a team pre- ing – the fewest by any Division-I team in the nation. The Mavs dicted to finish 2nd-to-last in the Sun Belt Conference Presea- had just 87 of 2,640 points back from its 2017-18 roster, in- son Poll to a 2nd-place finish in the regular-season standings cluding just one scholarship player in DJ Bryant. UTA lost its and a berth in the Sun Belt Tournament Championship Game top-9 scorers (eight seniors; one transfer) from 2017-18, but for the second-straight year. Ogden molded together a group of newcomers – of which UTA had 12 at the start of the year, the 3rd-most in the country • In addition to his SBC Coach of the Year honor, Ogden was – as 97.2 percent (2,219 of 2,284) of the Mavs’ points in 2018- named the 2018-19 National Association of Basketball Coach- 19 came from players who didn’t suit up for UTA the year prior. es District 24 Coach of the Year, and was a finalist for the Hugh Durham Award – presented annually to the nation’s top • In conference games, UTA led the SBC in field-goal percent- mid-major coach – and also the Joe B. Hall Award – given an- age defense (.409), rebounds per game (38.4) and rebound nually to the top first-year head coach in Division I. margin (+3.8); the Mavs finished 2nd in points per game al- lowed (69), free-throw percentage (.752), scoring margin • The Mavericks posted a 17-16 overall record, and finished (+4.1) and assists per game (14.6). tied for 2nd in the SBC with a 12-6 league record. That nine- spot improvement from preseason to final regular-season fin- • The rebounding numbers might be most impressive stats of ish was tied for the best in the nation along with Siena, which all as, according to KenPom, UTA was the smallest team in the was picked 11th in the MAAC (Metro Atlantic Athletic Confer- country in 2018-19 with an average height of just 74.5 inches ence) and finished in a four-way tie for 2nd. (6-foot-2). The Mavs had only two players who stood taller than 6-5 on their 14-man roster, and were the only team in the • After playing the 7th-hardest non-conference schedule in league that didn’t have a single player average more than 30 the nation, UTA came out of its non-league docket 4-9 and minutes, and just two who averaged more than 25. then dropped its first two SBC games at home to fall to 4-11 on the year. However, the Mavs finished above .500 – be- • UTA got the job done primarily on the defensive end in 2018- lieved be to one of only a few teams in the nation to con- 19 as the Mavs set a single-season program record by holding clude with a winning record after being at least seven games opponents to just 29.8 percent from 3-point range – besting below .500. the previous mark of 30.2 percent in 1994-95. 2 #MavUp @UTAMavsMBB Preseason Quick Facts 2019-2o SCHEDULE

Date Day Opponent Location Time (CST) Nov. 5 Tuesday UT Dallas ESPN+ College Park Center 7 PM Nov. 9 Saturday Tulsa (DH) ESPN+ (HOMECOMING) College Park Center 7 PM Nov. 12 Tuesday Nevada Mountain West Network Reno, Nev. 9 PM Nov. 17 Sunday Oregon 1 Pac-12 Networks Eugene, Ore. 7 PM Nov. 19 Tuesday Gonzaga 1 Spokane, Wash. TBA Nov. 24 Sunday Arkansas Tech ESPN+ College Park Center 1 PM Nov. 27 Wednesday Furman 1 Elon, N.C. 2 PM Nov. 28 Thursday Elon 1 FloSports Elon, N.C. 11 AM Dec. 2 Monday ESPN+ College Park Center 7 PM Dec. 7 Saturday UC Santa Barbara ESPN+ College Park Center 2 PM Dec. 11 Wednesday Houston Houston, Texas 7 PM Dec. 19 Thursday Georgia State* ESPN+ Atlanta, Ga. 6 PM Dec. 21 Saturday Geogia Southern* ESPN+ Statesboro, Ga. 12 PM Jan. 2 Thursday Arkansas State* ESPN+ Jonesboro, Ark. 7 PM Jan. 4 Saturday Little Rock* ESPN+ Little Rock, Ark. 2 PM Jan. 6 Monday South Alabama* ESPN+ College Park Center 7 PM Jan. 9 Thursday Appalachian State* ESPN+ College Park Center 7 PM Jan. 11 Saturday Coastal Carolina* ESPN+ College Park Center 2 PM Jan. 16 Thursday Louisiana* ESPN+ Lafayette, La. 7 PM Jan. 18 Saturday ULM* ESPN+ Monroe, La. 2 PM Jan. 25 Saturday Texas State* ESPN+ San Marcos, Texas 4 PM Jan. 30 Thursday Louisiana* ESPN+ College Park Center 7 PM Feb. 1 Saturday ULM* ESPN+ College Park Center 2 PM Feb. 6 Thursday Appalachian State* Boone, N.C. 6 PM Feb. 8 Saturday Coastal Carolina* ESPN+ Conway, S.C. 1 PM Feb. 13 Thursday Arkansas State* ESPN+ College Park Center 7 PM Feb. 15 Saturday Little Rock* ESPN+ College Park Center 2 PM Feb. 20 Thursday Georgia State* ESPN+ College Park Center 7 PM Feb. 22 Saturday Georgia Southern* (DH) ESPN+ College Park Center 2 PM Feb. 29 Saturday Texas State* (DH) ESPN+ College Park Center 5 PM Mar. 3 Tuesday Troy* ESPN+ Troy, Ala. 6 PM Mar. 7 Saturday SBC Tournament (10 @ 7; 9 @ 8) Campus Sites (1st Round) TBA Mar. 9 Monday SBC Tournament (W @ 5; W @ 6) Campus Sites (2nd Round) TBA Mar. 11 Wednesday SBC Tournament (W @ 3; W @ 4) Campus Sites (Quarterfinals) TBA Mar. 14 Saturday SBC Tournament Semifinals New Orleans, La. (Smoothie King) 11:30 AM / 2 PM Mar. 15 Sunday SBC Tournament Final New Orleans, La. (Smoothie King) 1 PM 1 Battle 4 Atlantis (Mainland) * Sun Belt Conference Opponent DH = Doubleheader With Women’s Basketball All Times Central & Subject To Change | All Games Broadcast In The DFW Area On KEXB 620 AM

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#MavUp 5 0 1 2 3 4 BRIAN WARREN SAM GRIFFIN JORDAN PHILLIPS AYOUB NOUHI DAVID AZORE 5-9 | 170 | SR | G 6-3 | 175 | FR | G 6-7 | 215 | SO | F 6-6 | 205 | SO | G/F 6-4 | 205 | R-SO | G Indianapolis, Ind. Miami, Fla. Fort Worth, Texas Brussels, Belgium Houston, Texas

10 11 13 14 20 RADSHAD DAVIS HUNTER LAVELLE JABARI NARCIS DAVIS STEELMAN NICOLAS ELAME 6-2 | 205 | SR | F 6-1 | 165 | FR | G 6-9 | 240 | SR | F 6-3 | 185 | JR | G 6-3 | 185 | FR | G Nassau, Bahamas Argyle, Texas Chaguanas, Trinidad and Tobago Bedford, Texas Paris, France

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TRE JONES TIANDRE JACKSON-YOUNG PATRICK MWAMBA MCKADE MARQUIS COLEMAN SPARLING 6-5 | 195 | FR | F 6-4 | 200 | SR | F 6-6 | 196 | SO | F 6-0 | 195 | R-FR | G 6-7 | 215 | R-JR | F Arlington, Texas Marshall, Texas Bukavu, Congo Whitehouse, Texas Ellensburg, Wash.

2019-20 ROSTER RS GRAYSON CARTER CHRIS OGDEN GREG YOUNG RILEY DAVIS ROYCE JOHNSON 6-9 | 225 | SO | F HEAD COACH ASSOCIATE HEAD COACH ASSISTANT COACH ASSISTANT COACH Dallas, Texas

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