Feb. 15, 2007
Box Score
UT Arlington turned 24 Texas-San Antonio turnovers into 22 points as the Mavericks captured its fifth consecutive win, 81-52, in Southland Conference men's basketball action Thursday night at Texas Hall.
UT Arlington (11-14, 6-6) evens its SLC record and moves within a game of Stephen F. Austin for third place in the West Division standings. UTSA falls to 6-18 overall and 2-9 in conference play.
UT Arlington had all 11 players on their roster score. Forward Larry Posey came off the bench to score a game-high 15 points and grabbed a career-high 15 rebounds in 22 minutes. Cardell Hunter had a career-high 11 points. Freshmen Ro'ger Guignard and Tommy Moffitt added 10 points each.
UTSA was led by Melvin Smith with 11 points. Isaiah Allen, who scored 25 points in UTSA's 72-64 win in the first meeting of the year on Jan. 22, was held to nine points on 2-of-7 shooting from the field.
UTSA scored the first basket of the game, a 3-pointer by Isaiah Allen, but UTA scored the next five points and never trailed the rest of the game.
A 10-2 midway through the first half stretch a 7-5 lead into a 17-7 cushion after Posey canned a jumper with 10:13 to play in the half. The leads swelled to 16, 36-20, after a Matt Read basket with :37 left in the half. A Kurt Attaway 3-pointer cut the Mavs lead to 3 6-23 at intermission.
UTA opened the second half scoring seven of the first eight points and led 43-24 after a Jermaine Griffin dunk with 15:58 left in the game. UTA led by as many as 36 points, 74-38, in the second half after Moffitt hit a 3-pointer with 4:02 left in the game.
MAV NOTES: UT Arlington's freshmen quintet of Ro'ger Guignard, Matt Read, Tommy Moffitt and Cardell Hunter combined for 37 points... the Mavs five-gamer winning streak is the longest since UTA won eighth straight in 2003-04 when the Mavericks won the final eight regular season games and shared the SLC regular-season title with UTSA and Southeastern Louisiana... Monday's game at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi will be televised on Fox Sports Net in the Metroplex.
