The Mean Green, a team from North Texas, found themselves involved in an exceptionally difficult conference game during this year’s championship week.
North Texas has officially secured a position in the 2010 NCAA tournament as a #15 seed due to their 66 to 63 victory over Troy during the Sun Belt game. Troy and Mean Green completed the standard season with a record of thirteen to five. The team’s overall record is 24 wins, 8 losses.
In the 2009-10 standard season, North Texas certainly didn’t carry themselves to any sort of exceptional victory outside of the Sun Belt conference. They lost 82 to 68 to Oklahoma State, but managed to enter this year’s tournament with a victory streak of 11 games – in addition to coming out on top in their last thirteen contests.
Among the team lies 4 players with the ability to score at least 11 points in each game. Josh White, the team’s guard, tends to average somewhere around 15 points per match, but about 40% of his shots are from the free throw line, which isn’t anything special. However, White is considered the team’s best shooter when it comes to free throws. Eric Tramiel, a senior playing for North Texas, averages almost thirteen points per game and handles 6 or 7 rebounds. George Odufuwa is a junior that has an average of eleven and a half points / ten and a half boards.
Defense seems to be Mean Green’s shining quality, and that quality is to thank for their spot in the tournament this year. In the game against Troy, North Texas was able to keep them under their average points in two separate games. If we take a look at their tournament games, they kept the opposing teams to under sixty-two points.
7 teams who participated in the Sun Belt managed to finish with records above .500 – and Mean Green had the best record and is therefore the only team from that conference to have made it to the 2010 NCAA Tournament. Among fans, the Sun Belt isn’t well respected, which puts North Texas at a disadvantage when brackets are being selected.
North Texas is expected to be a fifteen or sixteen seed in the tournament. The only way for them to make it to the 2nd round would be for them to play one of the best games in the recorded history of the school. While it’s not impossible, it’s not exactly something many will choose in their upcoming bracket pools.
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