MBKB SID: Brian Henry Office Phone: (409) 880-8329 Cell: (573) 239-5267 E-mail: [email protected] LAMAR SCHEDULE/RESULTS Date Opponent Result/Time Lamar (19-10, 13-3) N 13 LeTourneau University W, 103-64 vs. Texas-Arlington (18-11, 7-9) N 16 at Mississippi L, 70-108 N 19 Wyoming L, 71-75 Thursday, March 13 * Noon CT N 24 Oral Roberts L, 57-65 Katy, Texas * Merrell Center (7,200) N 28 at New Orleans L, 65-76 Radio: KLVI 560 AM (Dave Hofferth) * TV: SouthlandTV D 1 at Northern Illinois L, 63-65 From 1-5 To Southland Co-Champs Lamar In The Southland Tournament D 4 St. Gregory’s W, 95-59 Lamar opened the 2007-08 season with a 1-5 record ** Lamar is making its 14th SLC Tournament D 8 Louisiana College W, 117-67 before hitting its stride with the New Year. The Cards appearance with a 16-10 (.615) all-time record. LU is D 12 at #25 BYU L, 66-88 were 5-6 and dropped a 79-77 decision at Texas Tech 19-21 (.475) all-time on conference tourney play in D 22 Rice W, 66-49 in a game that second-year coach Steve Roccaforte 24 previous events D 29 Lyon College W, 104-52 has said was the turning point to the season. From ** The Cardinals have won three SLC titles - 1981, J 1 at Texas Tech L, 77-79 there Lamar won its next two at home, including the 1983 and 2000 - and have runner-up finishes in 1984 J 8 Utah Valley State W, 74-69 SLC-opener over UTSA, then lost by six at Stephen and 1985. Only former members La.-Monroe (6) and J 12 * UTSA W, 81-56 F. Austin before reeling off 11-consecutive victories. La. Tech (3) can match Lamar’s three titles J 17 * at Stephen F. Austin L, 75-81 That stretch is the fourth-longest in school history ** Lamar has advanced to the SLC semifinals 12 J 19 * Sam Houston State W, 93-90 ot and the longest by any SLC school this year. It was times, including each of the last three years J 24 * at Central Arkansas W, 89-86 ot also the fourth-longest in the nation before ending at Record by round: FR QF SF Final J 26 * at Northwestern State W, 91-82 McNeese State, 74-71, on March 1. The Cards then Southland - 8-1 5-7 3-2 F 2 * McNeese State W, 89-67 split their final two games, defeating Nicholls State Sun Belt 1-4 1-2 0-1 - F 7 * at Nicholls State W, 72-68 ot on Senior Night and losing at SE Louisiana in the American South - 1-3 0-1 - F 9 * Southeastern Louisiana W, 88-74 regular-season finale last Saturday. All-Time Record 1-4 10-6 5-9 3-2 F 14 * Texas-Arlington W, 80-66 F 16 * at Texas State W, 101-90 TEAM INFO F 21 * Central Arkansas W, 73-58 LAMAR CARDINALS TEXAS-ARLINGTON MAVERICKS F 23 * Northwestern State W, 103-95 Record: 19-10, 13-3 (H: 14-2 A: 5-8 N: 0-0) Record: 18-11, 7-9 (H: 14-3 A: 4-8 N: 0-0) F 27 * at A&M-Corpus Christi W, 79-72 Streak/L 10: Lost 1 / 8-2 Streak/L 10: Lost 1 / 4-6 M 1 * at McNeese State L, 71-74 Last game: Lost at SE Louisiana, 83-73 Last game: Lost at Texas State, 97-86 M 6 * Nicholls State W, 84-67 on Saturday in Hammond, La. on Saturday in San Marcos, Texas M 8 * at Southeastern Louisiana L, 73-83 Head Coach: Steve Roccaforte (Lamar, 1989) Head Coach: Scott Cross (Texas-Arlington, 1998) M 13 vs. Texas-Arlington (SLC Trn.) Noon Record: 34-27 (2nd season) Record: 31-28 (2nd season) at Lamar: same at UTA: same * Southland Conference game Times are Central vs. UTA: 1-1 vs. Lamar: 1-1 PROJECTED STARTERS LAMAR No. Name Pos. Ht. Wt. Cl.-Exp. Hometown PPG RPG Notes 33 Lamar Sanders F 6-6 230 Sr.-1L Hickory Flat, Miss. 11.6 7.0 First Team All-Southland 44 Tristan Worrell C 6-7 250 Jr.-JC Houston, Texas 3.5 2.4 Has started last 13 games and averaged 15.1 mpg 14 Kenny Dawkins G 5-9 155 Jr.-JC Holly Springs, Miss. 14.4 4.5a First Team All-Southland; SLC Newcomer of the Year 21 Darren Hopkins G 6-2 175 Sr.-1L Baltimore, Md. 11.6 4.3 Honorable Mention All-SLC for second-straight year 31 Currye Todd G 6-4 190 Sr.-1L Byhalia, Miss. 11.2 6.5 .458 3FG% led SLC in all games; .475 in SLC play TEXAS-ARLINGTON No. Name Pos. Ht. Wt. Cl.-Exp. Hometown PPG RPG Notes 32 Anthony Vereen F 6-7 230 Jr.-2L Houston, Texas 12.9 4.7 Honorable Mention All-Southland 45 Larry Posey F 6-5 250 Sr.-3L Houston, Texas 8.6 6.1 59 offensive rebounds ranks second on the team 3 Jermaine Griffin C 6-9 240 Sr.-3L Houston, Texas 12.3 7.4 Second Team All-Southland 1 Rog’er Guignard G 5-11 165 So.-1L Mesquite, Texas 12.7 2.6 Third Team All-Southland 13 Rod Epps G 6-2 180 Sr.-3L Dallas, Texas 7.9 4.0 .831 FT Pct. leads the team and ranks 5th in the SLC Lamar Claims Share of First Regular- Lamar in 2008, NWLA in 2006, and SELA and SFA SOUTHLAND CONFERENCE STANDINGS Season Conference Title Since 1984 in 2004. East Division SLC ALL By virtue of its win over Nicholls State last Lamar 13-3 19-10 Thursday, Lamar clinched a share of the Southland Lamar-Texas-Arlington Series History SE Louisiana 9-7 17-12 Conference regular-season championship, marking This will be the 69th meeting between Lamar and its first since the 1983-84 season. Lamar has now UTA with the Cardinals holding a 50-18 all-time Northwestern State 9-7 13-17 won 12 conference championships in 57 seasons. series advantage. Lamar is 28-5 in games played in McNeese State 7-9 13-15 Beaumont, 21-12 in Arlington and 1-1 on a neutral Nicholls State 5-11 10-21 A Win Today Would... court. UTA won last year’s only meeting, 76-74, in Central Arkansas 4-12 14-16 ** Give Lamar 20 wins for the first time since 1987- Arlington, while LU won this year’s Valentine’s Day 88 and the 12th time in school history contest 80-66. Since returning to the SLC, Lamar is West Division ** Move the Cardinals into the SLC Semifinals for 9-7 vs. UTA. the fourth-consecutive year (but they won’t have to Stephen F. Austin 13-3 25-4 play NW State for a fourth time) Lamar-UTA SLC Tournament History Sam Houston State 10-6 22-7 Lamar and UTA have split the only two previous Texas-Arlington 7-9 18-11 13 Conference Victories Ties School Record meetings that came in the Southland Conference UTSA 7-9 13-16 With Thursday’s win over Nicholls State, Lamar Tournament. UTA won 78-73 in the semifinals in Texas State 6-10 13-16 won its 13th conference victory and tied the school- 1982 in Lafayette and Lamar won 98-70 in the first TAMU-Corpus Christi 6-10 9-20 record held by the 1961-62 team that went 13-1 in round in 1985 in Ruston. the Lone Star Conference. Scouting Texas-Arlington Southland Tournament Schedule Roc Wins League Title in Second Season; Texas-Arlington enters the SLC Tournament as the M 13 Lamar vs. Texas-Arlington Noon Ties Tubbs For Second-Fastest In Lamar History No. 7 seed and has a 18-11 overall record and tied Sam Houston St. vs. McNeese St. 2:30 p.m. When Lamar clinched a share of the SLC regular- for third in the West Division with a 7-9 mark. The Stephen F. Austin vs. UTSA 6 p.m. season title on Thursday, it gave coach Steve Mavericks have gone 2-4 since losing to Lamar in Southeastern La. vs. NW State 8:30 p.m. Roccaforte his first title in his second year as the Beaumont on Feb. 14, but did claim the only win at head man in Beaumont. Only Pat Foster - who won SFA this season with a 75-65 win the same day M 14 Semifinal No. 1 6 p.m. his first title in his first season - won a championship Lamar fell at McNeese State. Semifinal No. 2 830 p.m. sooner. Of the three other Cardinal coaches to lead Three different active players average between M 16 Championship - ESPN 2 Noon their teams to titles, Foster did it in his first season, 12 and 13 points per game. Anthony Vereen leads Billy Tubbs did it in his second season and Jack the team with a 12.9 ppg average, followed by Martin accomplished the feat in his 10th year. Rog’er Guignard at 12.7 and Jermaine Griffin at 12.3. Guignard has made a team-high 85 3-pointers, Lamar Players Among The SLC Leaders One Win Away From 20-Win Season while Griffin leads the team and ranks fourth in the A win on Wednesday would give Lamar its 12th 20- league with 7.4 rebounds per game.