The six makes from outside tied a career high for the redshirt sophomore.
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North Texas now leads the all-time series between the teams 15-10, and UTSA head coach Steven Henson is now 0-4 against the Mean Green.
The school record is 250, and UNT still has one regular-season game left to play, along with at least one game in the C-USA tournament.
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UTSA (17-13, 10-7) played its first full game since star freshman Jhivvan Jackson, a Euless Trinity graduate who is the fifth leading scorer among freshmen in the country, suffered a season-ending injury in the Roadrunners' win over Louisiana Tech last week. You have to be ready when your number is called and Shane was ready tonight. We have one more game, and then you win and keep playing or you lose and the season's over. "They guard ball screens in a way Shane cane get open for pick-and-pop 3s. "This matchup was good for us for ," McCasland said of his 6-foot-9 senior. Two other UNT players finished in double figures, as A.J. Smart finished with a game-high 22 points, while Draper scored 18 points - all on 3-pointers. Then, Rose settled in and let the offense come to him, and that's when the game really broke open."
"Rose was trying to be aggressive and maybe put himself in some tough situations early and caused our offense to stall. "I thought DJ was huge, and all of his 3s early in the game really broke it open," UNT coach Grant McCasland said. In the second half, the Mean Green went on a 16-0 run over more than four minutes with the help of four consecutive 3-pointers from Smart to give his team a 51-30 lead.
UNT, which snapped a five-game skid in which they lost by an average of just five points per game, used a 9-0 run late in the first half to build a 10-point cushion with the help of two 3-pointers from DJ Draper.Īnd that wasn't even the big run for UNT on the night. DENTON - Redshirt sophomore DJ Draper made 6-of-7 shots from beyond the arc and sophomore Roosevelt Smart extended his single-season program record for made 3-pointers with four makes to lead an outside shooting barrage en route to an 80-62 win over UTSA at The Super Pit.