MEN’S BASKETBALL 2015-16 SEASON C-USA NOTEBOOK Feb. 5, 2016 Contact: Courtney Morrison Archer [email protected] CHARLOTTEFIUFLORIDA ATLANTICLOUISIANA TECHMARSHALLMIDDLE TENNESSEE NORTH TEXASOLD DOMINIONRICESOUTHERN MISSUABUTEPUTSAWKU 2015-16 MEN’S BASKETBALL STANDINGS (Through Feb. 4) |---------------CONFERENCE---------------| |------------------------OVERALL------------------------| TEAM W-L PCT. HOME AWAY W-L PCT. HOME AWAY NEUTRAL L10 STREAK UAB 9-1 .900 6-0 3-1 19-4 .826 13-0 6-3 0-1 9-1 W2 MIDDLE TENNESSEE 8-2 .800 5-0 3-2 16-6 .727 9-1 5-4 2-1 8-2 W2 MARSHALL 7-3 .700 4-1 3-2 11-12 .478 7-3 3-7 1-2 7-3 L2 LOUISIANA TECH 6-3 .667 4-1 2-2 17-5 .773 12-1 5-4 0-0 7-3 W4 OLD DOMINION 5-4 .556 2-3 3-1 12-10 .545 9-3 3-5 0-2 6-4 W2 FIU 5-5 .500 2-3 3-2 11-12 .478 6-6 4-5 1-1 5-5 L3 CHARLOTTE 4-5 .444 2-2 2-3 8-14 .364 4-6 4-5 0-3 5-5 W1 SOUTHERN MISS 4-5 .444 3-2 1-3 7-13 .350 5-6 2-7 0-0 5-5 L1 UTEP 4-6 .400 4-1 0-5 12-11 .522 10-4 0-7 2-0 4-6 W1 WKU 4-6 .400 2-2 2-4 12-11 .522 9-2 2-7 1-2 4-6 W1 FLORIDA ATLANTIC 4-6 .400 3-1 1-5 6-17 .261 4-3 2-11 0-3 4-6 L1 NORTH TEXAS 3-6 .333 2-2 1-4 8-14 .364 7-6 1-8 0-0 4-6 W1 RICE 2-7 .222 2-2 0-5 7-15 .318 6-6 1-9 0-0 2-8 L1 UTSA 2-8 .200 2-4 0-4 4-19 .174 3-8 1-9 0-2 2-8 L5 RECENT RESULTS HOW TO WATCH C-USA BASKETBALL Thursday, February 4 Date Game Coverage Time at (RV) UAB 74, FIU 69 Sat., February 6 Marshall at UTSA ASN 1:00p at Middle Tennessee 85, Florida Atlantic 73 Louisiana Tech at North Texas ASN 3:00p Louisiana Tech 90, at Rice 78 WKU at UTEP FS1 4:00p WKU 83, at UTSA 71 Old Dominion at Charlotte C-USA DN 6:00p at North Texas 70, Southern Miss 54 FIU at Middle Tennessee C-USA DN 6:00p at UTEP 112, Marshall 108 Florida Atlantic at (RV) UAB C-USA DN 7:00p Southern Miss at Rice C-USA DN 7:00p Wednesday, February 3 Charlotte 92, at North Carolina A&T 72 Thu., February 11 Rice at Charlotte C-USA DN 6:00p UTEP at FIU C-USA DN 6:00p Sunday, January 31 UTSA at Florida Atlantic C-USA DN 6:00p at Louisiana Tech 78, UTEP 70 North Texas at Old Dominion ASN 6:00p (RV) UAB at Southern Miss C-USA DN 7:00p Saturday, January 30 Middle Tennessee at Louisiana Tech ASN 8:00p (RV) UAB 81, at Marshall 78 Sat., February 13 Rice at Old Dominion ASN 1:00p at Florida Atlantic 82, Charlotte 77 (RV) UAB at Louisiana Tech FSN 1:00p Old Dominion 64, at FIU 60 North Texas at Charlotte ASN 3:00p Middle Tennessee 66, at WKU 64 UTEP at Florida Atlantic ASN 5:00p at Rice 95, North Texas 87 UTSA at FIU C-USA DN 6:00p at Southern Miss 86, UTSA 70 Marshall at WKU FCS 7:00p Thursday, January 28 Middle Tennessee at Southern Miss C-USA DN 7:00p Charlotte 71, at FIU 69 Thu., February 18 Charlotte at Marshall ASN 6:00p Old Dominion 78, at Florida Atlantic 66 FIU at North Texas C-USA DN 7:00p at Marshall 82, Middle Tennessee 66 Florida Atlantic at Rice C-USA DN 7:00p at Louisiana Tech 85, UTSA 75 Old Dominion at WKU FCS 7:00p at WKU 69, (RV) UAB 62 Louisiana Tech at UTSA ASN 8:00p at Southern Miss 71, UTEP 58 Southern Miss at UTEP C-USA DN 8:05p Conference USA Contest | All Times Central @Conference_USA / @CUSAMBK ConferenceUSA MEN’S BASKETBALL 2015-16 SEASON C-USA NOTEBOOK Feb. 5, 2016 Contact: Courtney Morrison Archer [email protected] CHARLOTTEFIUFLORIDA ATLANTICLOUISIANA TECHMARSHALLMIDDLE TENNESSEE NORTH TEXASOLD DOMINIONRICESOUTHERN MISSUABUTEPUTSAWKU THIS WEEK IN CONFERENCE USA WEEKLY AWARDS - FEBRUARY 2 THIS WEEKEND IN CONFERENCE USA Old Dominion senior Trey Freeman repeats as the C-USA Player of the Week A Super weekend is coming up in Conference USA basketball with seven recipient, while Rice’s Marcus Evans claims his fi fth C-USA Freshman of the games on the slate and a number of special events. Just like the Super Bowl, Week honor of the season for games through Jan. 31. Freeman averaged this year marks the 50th anniversary of UTEP, then known as Texas Western, 26.5 points in a pair of road wins for the Monarchs and maintained his spot winning the NCAA national championship in men’s basketball. Coached by atop the C-USA scoring chart at 20.6 ppg on the season. Evans posted a Don Haskins, Texas Western upset top-ranked Kentucky, 72-65, to win the game-high 25 points, along with four assists, three rebounds and a steal in 1966 title. The game bore tremendous historical signifi cance as Haskins be- a win over North Texas. Awards are chosen by a vote from a media panel came the fi rst coach to start fi ve African-American players in the title game. representing the 14 member schools. Members of that 1965-66 team will be celebrated during the Miners’ game against WKU. That match-up will be nationally televised on FS1 with a tip-off PLAYER OF THE WEEK time of 3 p.m. Mountain. TREY FREEMAN / OLD DOMINION / Senior / 6-2 / G / Virginia Beach, Va. Freeman averaged 26.5 points and 7.5 rebounds to pace the Monarchs in ASN has an afternoon doubleheader, beginning at 1 p.m. CT as UTSA hosts a pair of road wins this week. He scored 25 points, while hauling down a Marshall. The Herd is coming off a tough 112-108 loss at UTEP, which was the season-high nine rebounds in ODU’s impressive 78-66 victory at FIU on Jan. best off ensive output for both teams this season. Senior James Kelly led a 30. Freeman poured in a game-high 28 points, grabbed six rebounds, dished trio of Marshall student-athletes with 20-plus points as he scored 26 in the out three assists and had three steals in a 64-60 win at FAU. The senior has loss. The Roadrunners have their own off ensive strength in senior G Ryan scored 25 or more points in six-straight games (28, 28, 28, 37, 28 and 25). He Bowie, who ranks fi fth in C-USA with 17.1 ppg, and sophomore G Christian is now averaging 26.7 points per game in C-USA play, which leads all players Wilson just came off a 27-point performance against WKU Thursday night. in the conference. For the season, he is averaging 20.6 points per contest, which also tops the league scoring chart and ranks among the top 20 nation- The second game of the ASN doubleheader features Louisiana Tech at North ally. This is Freeman’s second C-USA Player of the Week honor of the season Texas. Tipoff is 3 p.m. CT. North Texas has designated the game as its Pink and fourth of his career (Jan. 25, 2016; Feb. 23 and March 3, 2015). Out game, with proceeds going to the American Cancer Society. The Mean Green is coming off a 70-54 win over Southern Miss. Junior J-Mychal Reese FRESHMAN OF THE WEEK scored a team-best 19 points, while sophomore Jeremy Combs just missed MARCUS EVANS / RICE / 6-2 / G / Chesapeake, Virginia registering his eighth consecutive double-double with 14 points and nine re- Evans scored a game-high 25 points, along with four assists, three rebounds bounds. LA Tech picked up its fourth-straight win as senior Alex Hamilton and a steal to lead Rice in its only game of the week – a 95-87 victory over scored a season-high 31 points and added game highs of nine rebounds and North Texas. The Chesapeake, Virginia, native connected on two three-point- fi ve assists to lead the Bulldogs to a 90-78 win at Rice Thursday. ers and went a perfect 11-of-11 (1.000%) from the free throw line, including 7-of-7 in the fi nal 3:44 to clinch the victory. His 11 free throws also tied a ca- First-place UAB puts its program-record 22-game home court win streak on reer-high. Evans has now scored 20-plus points 11 times, tying the Rice fresh- the line as it hosts Florida Atlantic. Game time is 7 p.m. CT. The contest will man record set by Brent Scott in 1989-90. He also became just the fourth serve as the annual Bartow Classic, named for former men’s basketball coach Owl freshman to pass the 400-point plateau. This is Evans fi fth career C-USA and athletics director Gene Bartow. To honor Bartow, the athletic depart- Freshman of the Week accolade (Nov. 30, Dec. 7, Dec. 21, Dec. 28), tying cur- ment will donate $2 for every ticket sold to the Coach Gene Bartow Fund For rent teammate Max Guercy’s fi ve selections during the 2012-13 season.