7:03 pm
February 26

North Texas @ Marshall

Who will WIN this matchup?

North Texas Mean Green (12-6)

@ Marshall Thundering Herd (12-5)

 

Current odds:

North Texas Mean Green: (+150)

Marshall Thundering Herd: (-170)

 

• The line for this game is Marshall by 3.5 points.

• The Mean Green come into the contest on a three-game win streak after sweeping Southern Miss on Feb. 12 and Feb. 13. UNT had its series with WKU postponed last weekend due to weather.

• North Texas is shooting a conference-best 49 percent from the field this season and is second in C-USA in scoring defense allowing just 61.6 points per game.

• Javion Hamlet is fourth in C-USA with 4.2 assists per game and leads UNT in scoring with 13.5 points per game.

• Zachary Simmons is the team’s leading rebounder with 6.2 boards per contest while averaging 10.4 points per game.

• James Reese leads the Mean Green in steals (26) and is second in scoring at 10.8 points per game.

• Marshall swept a pair of home games on Feb. 12 and Feb. 13 over Middle Tennessee.

• Redshirt senior Jannson Williams now has 188 blocks in his career and passed Hassan Whiteside for the program record on Feb. 12.

• Junior Taevion Kinsey had 25 points and five rebounds in both victories.

• Senior Jarrod West scored a career-high 29 points on Feb. 13 in the win over MT.

• Redshirt sophomore Andrew Taylor had at least 10 points and eight assists in both games.

• West now has 406 career assists, one of 12 in program history with 400 or more helpers.

• Kinsey has had at least 20 or more points in 10 of the Herd’s 17 games this season and leads Conference USA in scoring with 20.4 points per game.

• Marshall leads C-USA in assist to turnover ratio (1.41), assists per game (17.0), blocked shots per game (5.4), and scoring (82.5).

• West’s 108 assists, 6.4 assists per game and 2.65 steals per game are all conference bests this season.

• Kinsey is second in C-USA in field-goal percentage making 56.9 percent of his shots this season.

5/10
Confidence
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Marshall Thundering Herd
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