Texas road trip - UNT and Rice

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¤ Thursday, January 4th @ North Texas

¤ Saturday, January 6th @ Rice

Charlotteobserver.com: Houston Fancher: Improve or Charlotte 49ers will become ‘homecoming’ opponents in C-USA

Dentonrc.com: Chalk talk: Charlotte at UNT

Conferenceusa.com: MBB: Jan. 2 Players of the Week (Player of the Week: Roosevelt Smart, North Texas)

Plus some interesting stuff from ODU beatwriter Ed Miller since the Monarchs are our travel partner, including this tidbit:

Pilotonline.com: ODU basketball heads to Texas looking to avoid a Lone Star State letdown

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Fancher may not win 5 more games this season, but I like his style. The first step in fixing a problem is admitting you have one, and he doesn’t mince words.

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Dentonrc.com: Simmons making impact early at UNT

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Charlotteobserver.com: Milos Supica’s layup in final seconds gets Charlotte 49ers past North Texas, 70-68

Dentonrc.com: UNT falls short as Charlotte escapes with last-second win

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Fancher may not win 5 more games this season, but I like his style. The first step in fixing a problem is admitting you have one, and he doesn’t mince words.[/quote]

We’ll win a few more just because CUSA is awful and we have four games with Florida twins…and surely Davis will heal up.

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[quote=“Run49er, post:4, topic:32105”]Charlotteobserver.com: Milos Supica’s layup in final seconds gets Charlotte 49ers past North Texas, 70-68

Dentonrc.com: UNT falls short as Charlotte escapes with last-second win[/quote] That last sequence was awful. White taking a bad and way too early shot and NT standing around allowing Supica the easy put back.
Glad the one guy on the floor doing good was our guy. ;D

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Took OT for ODU to beat Rice 82-75 so Owls may be a tougher out than their 3-13 record indicates.

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clt Is feeling good about this one. Rice is bad, and carbs make you fat?

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Charlotte needs this W. Gotta show they can beat lesser teams like Rice. A win gets them to 2-1 in conference heading into a game vs Marshall who is currently 2-0, makes it a key game early on in the CUSA race.

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Charlotteobserver.com: Rice ends losing streak, surges by misfiring Charlotte 49ers

Chron.com: Rice tops Charlotte for first conference win of season

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Reality is we have to stop looking at Teams like Rice as lesser teams. We are the lesser team, the lesser program. We are part of the reason his is a terrible conference. It’s a very sad state.