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Nov. 11 | North Texas vs. Little Rock #COMMITTED North Texas Women's Basketball GAME 1 LITTLE ROCK 2016-17 North Texas North Texas vs. Little Rock Little Rock SCHEDULE MEAN GREEN (0-0, 0-0 C-USA) Date Friday, Nov. 11 | 6:30 p.m. CT TROJANS (0-0, 0-0 Sun Belt) Venue .......Jack Stephens Center Location .....Little Rock, Arkansas Overall: 0-0 • C-USA: 0-0 Live Stats .... MeanGreenStats.com Live Tweets .... @MeanGreenWBB DATE OPPONENT TIME/RESULT TV ........................................ N/A NCAA Preseason WNIT Radio .................... KHYI 95.3 FM 11/11 at. Arkansas-Little Rock 6:30 p.m. .............................KNTU 88.1 FM ............................KGAF 1580 AM 11/13 vs. TBA Series ......Little Rock leads 12-11 11/14 vs. TBA Last Meeting ......Little Rock 52, 11/17 vs. TBA North Texas 48 on 1/26/13 in Denton, Texas 11/20 vs. TBA TOP RETURNERS 11/22 at Arizona 12:00 p.m. 11/26 vs. Iona 3:00 p.m. #3 Kelsey Criner #13 Sharde’ Collins 9.7 PPG, 3.4 RPG, 1.7 APG 11/30 at SMU 3:00 p.m. 13 PPG, 5.3 RPG, 5 APG 12/3 at Tulsa 2:00 p.m. 12/6 vs. Indiana 11:30 p.m. #14 Candice Adams #40 Kaitlyn Pratt 11 PPG, 2.2 RPG, 4.6 APG 9.5 PPG, 6.7 RPG, 1 APG 12/10 vs. Incarnate Word 3:00 p.m. 12/17 at Missouri State 2:05 p.m. #20 Terra Ellison #2 Monique Townson 12/22 vs. Texas State 5:00 p.m. 10.1 PPG, 4.1 RPG, 1.6 APG 5.8 PPG, 3.2 RPG, 3.2 APG 12/30 vs. Charlotte* 7:00 p.m. 1/1 vs. Old Dominion* 3:00 p.m. 1/5 at UAB* 7:00 p.m. overview 1/7 at Middle Tennessee* 6:00 p.m. 1/14 vs. Rice* 3:00 p.m. LITTLE ROCK'S TEAM 1/19 vs. Southern Miss* 7:00 p.m. FAMILAR TEAMS 1/21 vs. Louisiana Tech* 3:00 p.m. Friday’s matchup is the 24th meeting between The Little Rock Trojans are coming off a successful 1/26 at Charlotte* 6:00 p.m. the two schools. From 2000 until 2013, the Mean 2015-16 season where they reached the Postseason 1/28 at Old Dominion* 6:00 p.m. Green and the Trojans played in the Sun Belt WNIT and won a total of 20 games. 2/4 at Rice* 2:00 p.m. Conference together until North Texas left for The Trojans lost in the first round of the tournament 2/9 vs. Florida Atlantic* 7:00 p.m. Conference USA. to St. Louis on a buzzer-beater shot. 2/11 vs. FIU* 3:00 p.m. In their last meeting at Little Rock on Jan. 9, The 20-win season, however, was nothing new to 2/16 at UTEP* 8:05 p.m. 2013, the Mean Green defeated the Trojans 68- Little Rock. In 13 full seasons at the helm, head 2/18 at UTSA* 2:00 p.m. 65. North Texas and Little Rock have split the last coach Joe Foley has led his team to nine 20-win 2/23 at Louisiana Tech* 6:30 p.m. seasons. They have won a total of 264 games in the 2/25 at Southern Miss* 4:00 p.m. four meetings dating back to 2011. 13 seasons. 3/2 vs. Western Kentucky* 7:00 p.m. The familiarity between the two schools doesn’t 3/4 vs. Marshall* 3:00 p.m. stop at their Sun Belt Conference connection. Last year didn’t begin with the looks of a 20-win C-USA Tournament North Texas associate head coach Bobby Brasel team, though. The Trojans started their 2015-16 3/8 TBA was an assistant at Little Rock under current campaign with a 2-7 start. Following the slow start, Trojans head coach Joe Foley from 2013-15. Little Rock won three of the next seven and then *Denotes Conference USA Contest, ~ Mean Green While at Little Rock, Brasel helped lead a Trojans rattled off 15-straight wins before back-to-back Radio Network All Game Times Listed in CT and are team to a program-record 29 wins in 2014-15. buzzer beating losses in the finals of the Sun Belt subject to change That season Little Rock defeated then No. 24 Conference Tournament and then the WNIT. LSU and later No. 6 Texas A&M in the NCAA Foley enters the 2016-17 season with 720 career @MeanGreenWBB Tournament. wins. North Texas Women's Basketball Nov. 11 Mean Green vs. Little Rock LEARNED FROM THE BEST A GRAND FOR CANDICE brating their 40th anniversary. On Nov. 22, 1976, North Texas women’s basketball opened its doors with a road North Texas head coach Jalie Mitchell became Senior guard Candice Adams is only 353 points game versus Baylor. just the second Mean Green head coach to from eclipsing the 1,000 point mark for her career. If you weren’t alive or don’t remember what life was like at least double the team’s win total from the She would become the 14th North Texas women’s or what happened on that Monday nearly 40 years ago previous season in their respected first season basketball player to reach that mark if she were to here’s a reminder. in the position. The only other was Karen Aston accomplish it. Adams’ 318 points last season were US PRESIDENT: Jimmy Carter (2011-12) who Mitchell was an assistant under in a career-best for the Cedar Hill native and almost MOST POPULAR SONG: Hotel California, by the Denton and then later at the University of Texas. doubled her previous best. Eagles In Aston’s first and only year with North Texas, Adams missed one game last season and the MOST POPULAR MOVIE: Rocky she turned a five win Mean Green team into a 15 second half of her freshman season due to injury. MLB FREE AGENCY: Major League Baseball became win team that won a game in the 2012 Sun Belt Adams made 49 3-pointers last season, a personal- the first American sports league to allow players to be Conference Tournament. high and the eight-most in a single season for a free-agents when their contract was up. Following that conference tournament win, North North Texas women’s basketball player. ATLANTA HAWKS: The NBA team was on a 28-game Texas went three seasons without winning another She enters the 2016-17 season with 99 career losing streak that would end on Nov. 24. conference tournament game, until this past year made 3-pointers, which is fifth most in Mean HEISMAN: Tony Dorsett from Pittsburgh wins the when Mitchell led her Mean Green team to a 79- Green history. Next up on the list is 2010 graduate 42nd annual college football Heisman award a few days 74 victory over Florida Atlantic in the first round Brittney James who made 112 career 3-pointers. later. of the C-USA Tournament. Current North Texas head coach Jalie Mitchell’s ALGERIA: African country’s constitution goes into WHAT A SEASON former teammate Ashley Norris (1995-2000), effect on Nov. 22. owns the record for 3-pointers in a career with SNL: The Beatles’ band member George Harrison hosted 197. Saturday Night Life two days prior. North Texas accomplished many program firsts RICK BARRY: Golden State Warriors’ forward ends and left its mark in the record books in its first MAKING THE JUMP then-longest NBA free-throw streak of 60 on Nov. 16. season with Jalie Mitchell as its head coach. The CHAIRMAN MAO: Chinese communist and founding Mean Green defeated a ranked team for the first After more than doubling its win total from father of the People’s Republic of China had recently time when they knocked off No. 17 Oklahoma the previous season and added eight talented passed. on the road on Nov. 16, 2015, by a score of 61- newcomers to its roster, North Texas was SYRIA: Syrian army conquers Beirut earlier that week. 57. Then at the end of the season, North Texas projected to finish sixth in Conference USA by the AVERAGE COST OF A NEW HOUSE: $43,400 defeated Florida Atlantic in the first round of conference’s preseason coaches’ poll. AVERAGE INCOME: $16,000 the C-USA Conference Tournament for its first The sixth place projection, is seven spots higher AVERAGE PRICE OF GAS: 59 cents/per gallon victory in the post season conference tournament. than where they finished the 2015-16 season in APPLE: Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak form Apple Com- New Mexico Junior College transfer point guard 13th. No other team in the conference made that puter Company in their garage. Kelsey Criner became the first Mean Green player high of a jump in the poll. While it’s nowhere BICENTENNIAL: United States celebrates its bicenten- to have 10 or more assists in a game since 2002. close to where the Mean Green hope to finish, the nial birthday. Criner dished out 11 assists in a Dec. 10, 2015, win team and its coaches see the projection as a sign $2: The United States issues the $2.00 bill. over Incarnate Word. of respect for the work they’ve put in since last CUBA: Fidel Castro became the 17th President of Cuba Criner then later dropped 34 points at Rice, season. on Dec. 2, 1976. becoming the first North Texas player with 30 or WELCOME TO NEWDENTON Since its Nov.