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Bears 7-14/1-6; last in East; 2-8 on road
Lamar 11-11/3-4; 3rd in West; 10-2 at home

This will be a road challenge for Bears....Lamar is 10-2 at home with some good wins included. Both teams played McNeese at home and Lamar eked out a win while the Bears got whipped in maybe the worst game of the year. UCA played better on road at SELA than did Cardinals and Bears nearly got TSU in San Marcos while Lamar lost by 5 at home.

Although Lamar outscores UCA they also give up more and both teams on average lose by 3. Neither team is a great shooting team but Lamar has a narrow edge. UCA has a slight advantage in shooting defense and commits fewer TOs. Lamar has the rebounding edge.

Lamar has balanced scoring led by Anthony Miles at 14 and Justin Nabors at 14 with 10 rebounds and shooting over 51% from field.

Winning on the road is usually about solid defense, winning TO margin, staying pretty close on rebounds and hitting FTs. Bears need to do all of this but it is possible with hard and smart play. Need to hold Miles and Nabors under 10 each and make others step up. UCA needs good outing from Sheppard, Rueter and Poellnitz plus some solid inside play from Dos Carlos.

Stats and scores follow.

Go Bears!!

Common Foes:
UCA lost to TAMCC at home 64-59: Lamar lost on road by 81-64
UCA lost at Texas State by 76-74: Lamar lost at home by 97-92
UCA lost to McNeese at home by 68-53; Lamar won at home by 79-78
UCA lost at SELA by 60-53; Lamar lost at SELA by 78-56

Stats:

Scoring:
7th Lamar at 70
12th at 63

Scoring defense:
4th UCA at 66
8th Lamar at 73

FT%
8th Lamar at 67%
10th UCA at 63%

FG%
8th Lamar at 43%
12th UCA at 41%

FG defense
6th UCA at 43%
9th Lamar at 44%

3s%
11th Lamar at 28%
12th UCA at 27%

3s defense
6th UCA at 34%
7th Lamar at 35%

Rebounds
1st Lamar at 40
11th UCA at 35

TOs
4th UCA at 13
9th Lamar at 16

SCORING G Pts Pts/G
Miles, Anthony 22 315 14.3
Nabors, Justin 22 303 13.8
Harris, Kendrick 22 267 12.1
Harper, Charlie 22 205 9.3
Custer, Coy 22 118 5.4
Nwevo, Lawrence 22 113 5.1

FIELD GOAL PERCENT Made Att FG Pct
Carter, Justin 2 3 .667
Nabors, Justin 114 223 .511
Custer, Coy 37 77 .481
Nwevo, Lawrence 50 105 .476
Miles, Anthony 99 215 .460
Harper, Charlie 86 191 .450

3-POINT FG PERCENT Made Att 3FG Pct
Custer, Coy 7 17 .412
Miles, Anthony 25 63 .397


FREE THROW PERCENT Made Att FT Pct
Minor, Donley 20 22 .909
Mathis, Reggie 23 28 .821
Miles, Anthony 92 123 .748
Nabors, Justin 73 102 .716





Lamar Cardinals
Nov 13 - W vs. Huston-Tillotson, 80-57
Nov 16 - W vs. TX-Pan American, 77-72
Nov 19 - L at Middle Tennessee, 66-74
Nov 21 - L at Texas Tech, 54-77
Nov 23 - L at Ohio, 46-71
Nov 25 - L at Marshall, 74-87
Nov 28 - W vs. NC A&T, 74-73
Dec 2 - L at Denver, 55-62
Dec 6 - L at Hawaii, 78-96
Dec 9 - W vs. Louisiana Coll, 79-64
Dec 19 - L vs. UL-Lafayette, 60-68
Dec 23 - W vs. Rice, 77-61
Dec 30 - W vs. St Gregorys, 76-53
Jan 2 - W vs. Tulane, 70-67
Jan 4 - W vs. Arkansas State, 87-68
Jan 9 - L at SE Louisiana, 56-78
Jan 13 - W vs. Texas-Arlington, 71-68
Jan 16 - W vs. McNeese State, 79-78
Jan 20 - L at TX A&M-CC, 64-81
Jan 23 - L vs. Texas State, 92-97
Jan 27 - L at Sam Houston St, 63-90
Jan 30 - W at TX-San Antonio, 64-57

Bears 21 Lamar 21 about 5:45 minutes left in 1st....

At half.....

Bears 28
Lamar 39

Stats....

Mitch Rueter has 13...game leader.....

UCA/Lamar

FG%: 46%/54%
3s: 40%/67%
FT%: 60%/100%
Rebounds: 9/16
TOs: 7 each

Got to rebound better....

Bears close to 47-43 early in 2nd half.....

Lamar 48 Bears 47......11:16 to go

Lamar 56 UCA 54....less than 6 minutes to go...Mitch has 18....

3:55 to go......Lamar 62 Bears 58 with UCA to shoot FTs....

1:48 left

Lamar 66
UCA 62

Poellnitz misses 2 FTs.....

Two highly questionable calls in Lamar's favor...Miles rolls over on a loose ball and gets a timeout and shooting foul called 10 feet before shot that drops in....

Mitch now has 24.....

FINAL

Lamar 73 (12-11/4-4)
UCA 65 (7-15/1-7)

UCA/Lamar
FG%: 22-51/43%; 25-49/51%
3s%: 6-13/46%; 5-14/36%
FT%: 15-25/60%; 18-21/86%
Rebounds: 26/33
TOs: 12/14

Mitch Rueter 24
Chris Poellnitz 14
Tadre Sheppard 10

For Lamar.....Justin Nabor put up 24 and Anthony Miles scored 15 and Charlie Harper at 11

We let this one get away with missing 10 FTs.....this was a 1-3 point game until final minute....those missed FTs really hurt at the end....otherwise better than decent shooting....

Coach: Lamar pretty good rebounding team.....Tadre battled on boards but did not have much help....some very good things tonight but missed too many ....backcourt violation, missed dunk...no margin for making these errors....have to have these plays....proud of their character tonight...down by 12 and we got back to 1 but could not get over...effort was good....need to get Tadre to post up harder...Mitch had a good night and battled hard.....Chris had a good night and had he made the FTs he would have a very good night...next up is Sam Houston State...undefeated in SLC play and looks like the favorite for NCAA
tourney...

Good job competing and playing hard. Need to start getting some wins now.

I like the effort they showed in competing against a Lamar that is tough, especially at home. Hopefully they will bring that same going to another tough place, Johnson Coliseum in Huntsville, Texas.