MEN’S BASKETBALL 2015-16 SEASON C-USA NOTEBOOK Jan. 15, 2016 Contact: Courtney Morrison Archer [email protected] CHARLOTTEFIUFLORIDA ATLANTICLOUISIANA TECHMARSHALLMIDDLE TENNESSEE NORTH TEXASOLD DOMINIONRICESOUTHERN MISSUABUTEPUTSAWKU 2015-16 MEN’S BASKETBALL STANDINGS (Through Jan. 14) |---------------CONFERENCE---------------| |------------------------OVERALL------------------------| TEAM W-L PCT. HOME AWAY W-L PCT. HOME AWAY NEUTRAL L10 STREAK UAB 4-0 1.000 3-0 1-0 14-3 .824 10-0 4-2 0-1 10-0 W11 MARSHALL 4-0 1.000 3-0 1-0 8-9 .471 6-2 1-5 1-2 7-3 W4 MIDDLE TENNESSEE 3-1 .750 2-0 1-1 11-5 .688 6-1 3-3 2-1 7-3 W3 FIU 3-1 .750 2-0 1-1 9-8 .529 6-3 2-4 1-1 5-5 W1 LOUISIANA TECH 2-2 .500 2-1 0-1 13-4 .765 10-1 3-3 0-0 7-3 L1 UTEP 2-2 .500 2-0 0-2 10-7 .588 8-3 0-4 2-0 4-6 L2 OLD DOMINION 2-2 .500 1-1 1-1 9-8 .529 8-1 1-5 0-2 6-4 L2 NORTH TEXAS 2-2 .500 1-1 1-1 7-10 .412 6-5 1-5 0-0 5-5 L1 WKU 1-3 .250 1-1 0-2 9-8 .529 8-1 0-5 1-2 5-5 L1 RICE 1-3 .250 1-0 0-3 6-11 .353 5-4 1-7 0-0 4-6 W1 SOUTHERN MISS 1-3 .250 1-1 0-2 4-11 .267 3-5 1-6 0-0 4-6 L1 CHARLOTTE 1-3 .250 0-1 1-2 4-12 .250 2-5 2-4 0-3 3-7 L2 UTSA 1-3 .250 1-1 0-2 3-14 .176 2-5 1-7 0-2 2-8 L2 FLORIDA ATLANTIC 1-3 .250 1-0 0-3 3-14 .176 2-2 1-9 0-3 1-9 W1 RECENT RESULTS HOW TO WATCH C-USA BASKETBALL Thursday, January 14 Date Game Coverage Time UAB 72, Old Dominion 71 (OT) Sat., January 16 Middle Tennessee at Old Dominion FSN 3:00p Marshall 97, at North Texas 78 UTEP at UTSA ASN 3:00p Middle Tennessee 73, at Charlotte 72 UAB at Charlotte C-USA DN 6:00p at FIU 88, Louisiana Tech 74 Louisiana Tech at Florida Atlantic C-USA DN 6:00p at Florida Atlantic 58, Southern Miss 51 Southern Miss at FIU C-USA DN 6:00p at Rice 83, WKU 73 Marshall at Rice ASN 7:00p WKU at North Texas C-USA DN 7:00p Saturday, January 9 at UAB 87, UTEP 80 Thu., January 21 WKU at Old Dominion ASN 6:00p at North Texas 85, Rice 74 Marshall at Charlotte C-USA DN 6:00p at WKU 86, Florida Atlantic 82 (OT) North Texas at Middle Tennessee C-USA DN 6:30p at Middle Tennessee 79, UTSA 71 FIU at UTSA C-USA DN 7:00p at Louisiana Tech 93, Charlotte 90 (OT) Rice at UAB CBS SN 8:00p at Marshall 99, FIU 81 Florida Atlantic at UTEP C-USA DN 8:05p at Southern Miss 73, Old Dominion 71 Sat., January 23 Florida Atlantic at UTSA C-USA DN 1:00p Thursday, January 7 Marshall at Old Dominion ASN 1:00p at Marshall 90, Florida Atlantic 67 Rice at Middle Tennessee C-USA DN 5:00p at Middle Tennessee 78, UTEP 72 WKU at Charlotte FCS 5:00p Charlotte 82, at Southern Miss 76 Louisiana Tech at Southern Miss C-USA DN 7:00p FIU 75, at WKU 72 North Texas at UAB C-USA DN 7:00p at UAB 104, UTSA 82 FIU at UTEP C-USA DN 8:05p Old Dominion 56, at Louisiana Tech 53 Thu., January 28 Charlotte at FIU ASN 6:00p Sunday, January 3 Old Dominion at Florida Atlantic C-USA DN 6:00p at Marshall 94, WKU 76 Middle Tennessee at Marshall C-USA DN 6:00p at FIU 76, Florida Atlantic 59 UTSA at Louisiana Tech C-USA DN 6:30p at UAB 78, Middle Tennessee 67 UAB at WKU FS1 6:30p at UTSA 85, Rice 80 UTEP at Southern Miss C-USA DN 7:00p at UTEP 84, North Texas 75 All Times Central @Conference_USA / @CUSAMBK ConferenceUSA MEN’S BASKETBALL 2015-16 SEASON C-USA NOTEBOOK Jan. 15, 2016 Contact: Courtney Morrison Archer [email protected] CHARLOTTEFIUFLORIDA ATLANTICLOUISIANA TECHMARSHALLMIDDLE TENNESSEE NORTH TEXASOLD DOMINIONRICESOUTHERN MISSUABUTEPUTSAWKU THIS WEEK IN CONFERENCE USA WEEKLY AWARDS - JANUARY 11 THIS WEEK IN CONFERENCE USA Marshall senior James Kelly earned his second C-USA Player of the Week All 14 C-USA men’s basketball teams are back on the hardwood Saturday. honor, while Charlotte’s Jon Davis claimed his fi rst C-USA Freshman of the Marshall and UAB are holding tight at the top spot in the C-USA standings at Week award of the season for games through Jan. 10. Kelly averaged a dou- 4-0, while FIU and Middle Tennessee picked up big wins Thursday to improve ble-double for the week totalling 51 points in two games, including 33 against to 3-1. Those single losses came to Marshall and UAB, respectively. However FIU, and back-to-back 15-rebound performances. Davis scored a career-high there are seven more Saturdays left of the regular season and anything can 24 points against Louisiana Tech and tallied 16 of 18 points in the second half happen. to help Charlotte rally to a road win at Southern Miss. Awards are chosen by a vote from a media panel representing the 14 member schools. This Saturday UAB rides its 11-game win streak into Charlotte for a 7 p.m. ET tip at Halton Arena. The Blazers are coming off a 72-71 overtime victory PLAYER OF THE WEEK at Old Dominion Jan. 14, snapping the Monarchs’ 32-game home court win JAMES KELLY / MARSHALL / Senior / 6-7 / F / Ann Arbor, Michigan streak. Sophomore William Lee scored a career-high 28 points, including Kelly posted his third consecutive double-double (and conference-best 10 of UAB’s 15 points in the extra period, to lead UAB. Charlotte played its eighth on the season) in a 99-81 victory over FIU on Jan. 9, scoring 33 points own nail-biter Thursday but was edged out 73-72 by Middle Tennessee. Five and grabbing a career-high-tying 15 rebounds. That was his second 30-point- 49ers scored in double-fi gures and senior Joseph Uchebo registered his fi fth plus performance of the season and Kelly averaged a double-double for the double-double with 11 points and 18 rebounds against the Blue Raiders. week with 25.5 points and 15 rebounds. Kelly scored 18 points and pulled down 15 rebounds in Thursday’s 90-67 win over Florida Atlantic. He currently Old Dominion will hope to start off a new home court win streak Saturday, leads C-USA with 10.0 rebounds per game and is second in scoring with 18.9 but will have a tough test against Middle Tennessee. The 4 p.m. ET contest points per game as the only C-USA player to average a double-double on will be televised on the FOX Sports Networks. If the Blue Raiders win, it will the season. For the week, he shot 62.5 percent (20-of-32) from the fi eld and mark the 400th career victory for MT head coach Kermit Davis, making a perfect 9-of-9 from the free throw line. Kelly’s performance boosted the him the fourth C-USA head coach to reach that milestone. Davis would join Herd to post 90 or more points in three consecutive conference wins for the UTEP’s Tim Floyd (441 career wins), WKU’s Ray Harper (422) and ODU’s fi rst time since January 1995 in the Southern Conference under Billy Dono- Jeff Jones (411). van. He also helped extend MU’s home win streak to six games, tying a mark from last season, and to nine games against conference opponents. This is Two other games are scheduled for television with a double bill on American Kelly’s second C-USA Player of the Week honor of the season (Dec. 28). Sports Network. UTSA hosts UTEP at 3 p.m. CT. The Miners are wrapping a three-game road swing but have had the week off to rest some injured play- ers. UTSA begins a three-game home stand and the Roadrunners are still led FRESHMAN OF THE WEEK off ensively by senior Ryan Bowie with 17.8 ppg on the season. JON DAVIS / CHARLOTTE / 6-2 / G / Upper Marlboro, Maryland Davis registered two double-fi gure scoring games as well as his fi rst career Rice hosts Marshall for a 7 p.m. CT start on ASN. The Owls boast the league’s 20-point scoring eff ort this past week. He netted a game-high 18 points, with top scorer in freshman Marcus Evans (19.7 ppg) and are coming off their fi rst 16 coming in the second half, as the 49ers overcame a fi ve-point halftime C-USA victory with an 83-73 decision over WKU on Thursday night. Mar- defi cit to defeat Southern Miss on the road Jan. 7. He also dished out fi ve shall enters the game 4-0 in conference play and has tallied up more than assists in the game.