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UCA (5-9/0-4) at Sam Houston State (10-6/3-1)


Nov 9 - L at Arkansas, 68-73
Nov 13 - W vs. Hardin-Simmons, 82-31
Nov 15 - L at Indiana, 45-99
Nov 19 - L vs. Southern Miss, 49-61
Nov 20 - W vs. Liberty, 64-50
Nov 21 - W vs. UC Irvine, 65-63
Nov 27 - L at Texas, 37-65
Dec 1 - L at Northern Ariz, 60-77
Dec 8 - W at Houston Baptist, 69-57
Dec 15 - W at Samford, 73-57
Dec 19 - W vs. Huston-Tillotson, 89-53
Dec 29 - W vs. Howard Payne, 90-49
Jan 4 - W vs. TX A&M-CC, 61-57 (2-12/1-3)
Jan 7 - L vs. Northwestern St, 64-73 (Demons are 10-5/4-1)
Jan 10 - W at Lamar, 68-57 (Lamar is 2-15/0-5)
Jan 12 - W at McNeese State, 72-57 (McNeese is 7-8/1-4)

All SLC wins come over lower level teams BUT they held NWS to only 73 at Natch. That should get our attention that they can play defense.

SLC Stats

Kats have +5 scoring margin while UCA is <7>. Bears outscore Sam 76-66 but give up a problematic 83 while Kats hold opponents to only 61. Edge to Kats.

In shooting...

UCA v Sam

FGs: 47% v 39%...Bears certainly have shot better
3s: 36% v 31%...need to free Craford u for good shots....maybe the key to the game
FTs: 65% v 74%...edge to Kats
FG defense: 47% v 40%...edge to Kats
3s defense: 42% v 28%...edge to Kats
Reb margin: <1> v +4..edge to Kats
Blocks: +3 to UCA
TO margin: <5> v +1....got to even this out


Sam has no player in Top 15 scorers which means they have pretty balanced attack. UCA's Crawford is #5 at 17 (64% FGs; 50% 3s) and Garner is #12 at 14.

Kats have two Top 15 in rebounding leaders with Terrance Motley at 7 boards and Michael Holyfield wiith 6. No Bears.

This is a winnable game but no margin of safety...have to reb better, limit the TOs and get shooters open for good shots and play better defense without gving up 35 FTs...tall order on the road....be a great time to get over the Hump...a track meet game plays to our strengths...

Anyone have Livestats over internet game broadcast?

Bears trail 25-17 with 4:17 in H1 per TSN.....

http://www.gobearkats.com/newLiveStats/Basketball/index.dbml?GAME_STAT_ID=818232&db_oem_id=19900

Try above link for Sam's game stats....

HALF

UCA 24
SHS 31

UCA v SHS

FGs: 38% vs 34% ...both have 10 FGs
3s; 29 v 50% ....Bears only 2 for 7....
FTs: 40% v 6% ....only 2 made vs 6
Rebs: 19 v20
TOs: 8 v 6

Q leads Bears at 5/1......Crawford< Williams and Berete are next at 3....got to score to win....at least Harks has 7 rebs...

Game still in play.....right now 3s are the difference....

14:11 left

UCA 33
SHS 39

3:39

UCA 50
SHS 58

Hanging around....need to have good run right now....

FINAL

UCA 24-28=52 (5-10/0-5)
SHS 31-32=63 (11-6/4-1)

UCA v SHS

FGs: 36% v 39%...each had 10 baskets
3s: 20% v 41% ....outgunned 7 to 2...that is the game...
FTs: 60% v 67%....SHS had 7 more made
Rebs: 34 v 44
TOs: 10 v13 ...good play by Bears

Q was 13/4 but only shot 30% from field....Crawford was 8/3 but only 1 for 6 from 3s (and 1 for 4 FTs) .....Garner was 6/4 and 0 for 4 from 3s...Berete scored 5 and Harks had 8 rebs....

Giving up only 63 is pretty good defense.....shooting so poorly on 3s is a killer.....especially when wear such a good 3s team....basically Sam shut down Crawford and that made the difference.....

Now get ready to play hard vs TAMCC Sat afternoon....