ARLINGTON – It's a matchup of the Sun Belt Conference's preseason favorites on Monday when the UT Arlington men's basketball team (5-10, 1-3 Sun Belt) returns to the College Park Center for the first time in a month when the Mavericks tip off the home portion of their league slate with a matchup against South Alabama (8-7, 1-3 Sun Belt) at 7 p.m.
 
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PROMO
The game is the final one of UTA's Holiday Hoops special, with all kids 18 and under receiving free admission.
 
KEY STORYLINES
South Alabama was installed as the preseason Sun Belt favorites, while UTA was picked to finish 2nd. Both teams enter with identical 1-3 league records, but UTA is one of just two teams (along with travel partner Texas State) that hasn't played a home conference game yet. This will be both teams third game in five days.
 
UTA enters with the nation's 12th-ranked strength of schedule, according to KenPom (more info later in this release). Based solely off win-loss percentage, UTA has played the 9th-hardest schedule in the nation as its opponents' winning percentage is .675 (leader: West Virginia, .763).
 
Following that brutal non-conference schedule, UTA has made significant offensive statistical improvements since getting into conference action. Below are three key averages from the non-conference schedule and so far in four Sun Belt games:
 
Points Per Game: 69 à 78.3
Field Goal Percentage: 40.2 à 46.8
Assists Per Game: 14.4 à 15.3
 
However, while the offense has improved, the defense, uncharacteristically, has gotten worse from the non-conference slate through four Sun Belt games:
 
Points Per Game Allowed: 67.4 à 76
Field Goal Percentage Defense: 40.3 à 40.7
Assists Per Game Allowed: 11.5 à 13
 
TWEETABLES – 5 Things To Know In 260 Characters Or Less
1) Eight of UTA's 10 losses this year have been by eight points or less, including all three Sun Belt setbacks – two of which have been by three points. Five of the eight have come away from home against NET Quad 1 or Quad 2 opponents (more info later in this release).
2) USA (74.9) and UTA (74.5) are the top-2 free-throw shooting teams in the Sun Belt. In conference games only, the Mavs (80.3) and Jaguars (78.3) rank 1st and 3rd, respectively. At Georgia State, UTA went 17-17 from the stripe – tied for the 3rd-most makes without a miss by any team in the nation this season.
3) The 89 points UTA scored in its 92-89 loss at Little Rock on Saturday are the most in a loss since Feb. 14, 2015, at South Alabama (97-91).
4) UTA has connected at 50+ percent from the floor in each of its last two games. However, the Mavs allowed a season-worst 56 percent from the field to Little Rock, while the 89 points surrendered were also a season worst.
5) All five of UTA's wins have come when the Mavs have led at the half, out-rebounded their opponent, shot 40+ percent from the floor and scored 70 or more points.
 
STRENGTH IN NUMBERS
UTA's strength so far this season has been its depth as the Mavs have already had eight different leading scorers in their 15 games – the most of any team in the nation.
 
In another testament to the depth, UTA has already had four different players record double-doubles this year (Jabari Narcis (3x), Azore (2x), Brian Warren and Radshad Davis). That's the second-most in the Sun Belt (Appalachian State, 5), and believed to be among the nation's leaders.
 
QUANTITY & QUALITY
Below is a list of UTA players who have scored in double figures this year, their respective season highs and how many times they have led the Mavs in scoring:
 
33: David Azore (2)
28: Brian Warren (3)
23: Jabari Narcis (3)
20 (2x): Sam Griffin (3)
19: TiAndre Jackson-Young (1)
18: Jordan Phillips (1)
17: Radshad Davis (1)
14: Davis Steelman (1)
 
SCHEDULE STRENGTH
In the most recent NET rankings (NCAA's second-year replacement RPI), UTA is ranked #115. Despite sitting at just 3-10 versus D-I competition, UTA's #115 NET is a higher ranking than 61 teams with winning records.
 
Much of that is due to the Mavs playing extremely well against one of the hardest schedules in the country; all but one of UTA's D-I opponents so far this season reside in Quad 1-3:
 
Quad 1: @ Gonzaga (7), @ Oregon (15), @ Houston (41)
Quad 2: vs. Furman (68), @ Nevada (81), @ Georgia State (110)
Quad 3: North Texas (109), Tulsa (103), UC Santa Barbara (153), @ Little Rock (155), @ Georgia Southern (169), @ Arkansas State (202)
Quad 4: @ Elon (338)
 
UTA lost by single digits to Gonzaga, Houston, Furman, Nevada, Georgia State and Georgia Southern.
 
UTA is the 2nd-highest ranked Sun Belt team in the NET (Georgia State (#110). South Alabama enters at #228.
 
ABOUT THE MATCHUP

• South Alabama is coming off a 69-49 loss at ULM on Saturday. That 20-point loss is the 2nd-largest margin in any Sun Belt game this year; the largest is UTA's 21-point win (73-52) at Arkansas State this past Thursday.
• So far in four conference games, UTA leads the league with 78.2 points per contest while USA is last (12th) with 62.2 points per outing. However, the Mavs also rank last in points allowed per game at 76.
• UTA's five-game winning streak over USA is its longest active against a current Sun Belt school; USA's five-game losing streak to UTA is its longest active against a current Sun Belt school.
• Trhae Mitchell was installed as the Sun Belt Preseason Player of the Year, while Josh Ajayi and Don Coleman joined him on preseason all-conference teams. Ajayi leads the Jaguars with 14.6 points and 7.4 rebounds per game.

 
SHOCKING STEELMAN
UTA's win over Arkansas State this past Thursday was spearheaded shockingly by junior walk-on Davis Steelman. He came off the bench to score a game-high 14 points; Steelman had not scored a single point all season coming into the game. In five games previously he had played 16 minutes, grabbed one rebound and went 0-2 from the floor. Thursday, he played 25 minutes, grabbed three rebounds and went 6-7 from the floor.
 
Steelman recorded another bucket on Saturday at Little Rock, going 1-3 from the floor for two points and also grabbing two rebounds.
 
WIN-LOSS COMPARISON
UTA has the following statistical comparisons in losses and wins so far this year:
 
Category        Losses             Wins
PPG                 68.0                 78.4
FG%                38.6                 48.8
FG D%            44.0                 33.6
APG                11.7                 20.4
 
LOCKING DOWN ON #8 GONZAGA
On Nov. 19, UTA led #8 Gonzaga for more than 16 minutes in the 1st half and made the Bulldogs fight until the final buzzer in what ended up being just a six-point Bulldogs win, 72-66.
 
In that game, the Mavericks held Gonzaga – which came in leading the nation in field-goal percentage at 56.6 – to just 39.1 percent. That is the lowest field-goal percentage Gonzaga has shot in a regular-season game since Feb. 20, 2016, against Saint Mary's (35.5 percent) – an incredible stretch of 99 games.
 
Additionally, the 72 points UTA limited Gonzaga to were the fewest the Bulldogs have scored in a home non-conference game since Dec. 10, 2016, when they tallied just 61 in a 61-43 win over Akron.
 
On the other side of the ball, Narcis – a 6-foot-9 forward – went a perfect 5-5 from 3-point range, tying for the best 3-point percentage performance in program history. Of players who have made at least five 3-pointers in a game, Narcis is now just the third player to go 5-5 or better, joining Scott Cross (5-5 vs. UTSA on Feb. 14, 1998) and Kevin Butler (7-7 at Idaho on Feb. 14, 2013).
 
AMONG THE LEAGUE'S BEST
Over the last five seasons, UTA has the 2nd-best average RPI/NET among all Sun Belt teams:
 

Team	2014-15	2015-16	2016-17	2017-18	2018-19	Average
1) Georgia State	54	177	106	116	126	116
2) UT Arlington	180	107	40	112	160	120
3) Louisiana	123	145	114	65	194	128
4) Georgia Southern	111	244	144	143	128	154
5) ULM	125	104	294	224	145	178
6) Coastal Carolina			174	251	153	193 *
7) Texas State	233	241	172	247	139	206
8) Little Rock	276	42	241	308	237	221
9) Troy	312	295	150	197	259	243
10) Arkansas State	278	284	113	295	252	244
11) South Alabama	271	240	229	271	236	249
12) Appalachian State	243	262	295	250	215	253
Sun Belt Rank (Out Of 32)	19	17	13	20	17	17.2

 
* Based On Three-Year Sun Belt Membership
 
2014-18 RPI Formula Utilized
2018-19 NET Formula Utilized
 
SUN BELT SUCCESS
UTA owns the third-most Sun Belt wins (69) since joining the league in 2013-14 (Georgia State: 81; Louisiana: 73), and is one of just three members (Georgia Southern, Louisiana) to post five-straight seasons of double-figure SBC wins.
 
Since joining the Sun Belt for the 2013-14 season, UTA is the only team in the league to finish in the top-5 every year. In 2016-17, the Mavericks won their first-ever SBC Regular Season Championship, and in 2017-18 they were the preseason favorites to repeat. Last year, UTA – due largely to a nearly entirely new roster – was predicted to finish 11th in the SBC, but exceeded all outsiders' expectations with a 2nd-place showing. The Mavs have been picked 2nd in the 2019-20 Preseason Sun Belt Poll by the league's head coaches.
 
RE-TWEETS
1) UTA issued 27 assists on 31 made field goals (87 percent) at Arkansas State. Those are the most assists since matching that total in a 105-89 win in the 2017 NIT at BYU.
2) Azore recorded his second double-double of the year with a career-high 33 points and season-best 12 rebounds at Georgia Southern. All 12 rebounds came on the defensive end – tied for the 10th-most in single-game program history.
3) Against Arkansas Tech on Nov. 24, Warren (15 points, career-high 12 assists) and Narcis (career-high 23 points, 11 rebounds) each recorded double-doubles – the first time that multiple UTA players have registered double-doubles in the same game in the Ogden era.
4) Warren's 12 assists were the most by a Mav since Erick Neal issued 13 against UT Dallas on Nov. 27, 2017.
5) Under Ogden, UTA is 20-7 when scoring at least 68 points (5-5 this year).
6) UTA shot just 23.4 percent (15-64) from the field at #14 Oregon on Nov. 17 – the worst performance in program history.
7) With its 84-50 victory over UT Dallas on Nov. 5, UTA has now won six-straight season openers.
8) UTA made 15 3-pointers (15-37) against UTD, tying for the 3rd-most in a game in program history (all-time record: 17 vs. Bradley on Dec. 8, 2015). The Mavs also made 15 3s at South Alabama this past February.
9) UTA has had three games of 24+ assists this year: 24 against Arkansas Tech, 25 versus UT Dallas and 27 at Arkansas State.
10) The 50 points UTD scored were the fewest allowed by UTA since Rice tallied just 49 on Nov. 29, 2017.
11) UTA started 2-0 for the third-straight year; in each of the previous two seasons the Mavs have gone on to play in the Sun Belt Tournament Final.
12) For just the second time in program history, UTA held its first two opponents of a season both under 60 points. The only other time that had occurred was the 1987-88 season; it's never been done three-straight times to commence a year.
 
SUN BELT CONFERENCE PRESEASON POLL (1st-Place Votes)
After being predicted to finish 2nd-to-last (11th place) in the Sun Belt Conference Preseason Poll in 2018-19, UTA has been picked to finish 2nd in 2019-20 in voting conducted by the league's head coaches.
 
1. South Alabama (8) – 138
2. UTA (2) – 124
3. Georgia Southern (1) – 121
4. Texas State (1) – 110
5. Louisiana – 92
6. Georgia State – 76
7. Coastal Carolina – 75
8. ULM – 72
9. Appalachian State – 40
10. Arkansas State – 33
11. Little Rock – 32
12. Troy – 22
 
The Mavericks shattered those expectations last year by finishing in a tie for 2nd with a 12-6 Sun Belt record; that nine-spot improvement from preseason to final regular-season finish was tied for the best in the nation along with Siena, which was picked 11th in the MAAC (Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference) and finished in a four-way tie for 2nd.
 
UTA has reached the Sun Belt Tournament Final each of the last two seasons, losing in the championship game both times to Georgia State. The Mavs will look to snap that streak this coming March as the tournament returns to New Orleans as the semifinals and final will be held at the Pelicans' Smoothie King Center.
 
PRESEASON ALL-SUN BELT FIRST TEAM
After being named to the Sun Belt Third Team and Sun Belt All-Tournament Team in his initial season as a Maverick, Warren has landed on the Preseason All-Sun Belt First Team. The senior led UTA in scoring (15.4), assists (3.6), steals (1.2) and minutes played (29.8) last year, in addition to grabbing 2.6 rebounds.
 
Warren made four shots which forced overtime or double overtime, and converted the go-ahead/eventual game-winning free throws twice. He ranked 8th in the Sun Belt in assists, 7th in assist-to-turnover ratio (1.7) and 5th in free-throw percentage (.805). The Indianapolis native eclipsed the 20-point mark eight times during the year and poured in 30+ points twice, including a career-high 33 versus ULM in late February. All told, Warren's 507 total points rank tied as the 17th-most in single-season program history.
 
Preseason All-Sun Belt First Team
Quan Jackson, Georgia Southern (R-Jr., G, Tallahassee, Fla.)
Josh Ajayi, South Alabama (R-Sr., F, El Monte, Calif.)
Trhae Mitchell, South Alabama (R-Sr., F, Austell, Ga.)
Brian Warren, UTA (Sr., G, Indianapolis, Ind.)
Nijal Pearson, Texas State (Sr., G, Beaumont, Texas)
 
PRESEASON PLAUDITS
In his initial ranking earlier this summer, ESPN Bracketologist Joe Lunardi installed UTA as the Sun Belt favorites in 2019-20. Andy Katz from the NCAA also predicted UTA to make the NCAA Tournament in his preseason bracket.
 
AMONG THE STATE'S BEST
Over the past 4+ years (since 2015-16), UTA owns the 6th-most wins of the 23 D-I schools in the state of Texas (entering games on Dec. 31):
 
1) Houston: 114-36
2) Texas Tech: 105-47
3) Stephen F. Austin: 101-46
4) Baylor: 99-50
5) SMU: 98-45
6) UT Arlington: 94-59
7) Sam Houston State: 91-61
8) TCU: 89-65
9) Texas A&M: 86-61
10) Texas Southern: 85-71
11) Texas State: 84-65
12) Texas: 81-69
13) Texas A&M-Corpus Christi: 79-66
14) Lamar: 77-68
      Abilene Christian: 77-63
16) North Texas: 68-80
17) Rice: 63-82
      Prairie View A&M: 63-84
19) UTEP: 62-77
      UTSA: 62-85
21) UTRGV: 57-89
22) Houston Baptist: 53-83
23) Incarnate Word: 45-85
 
FORMER OLYMPIAN ON STAFF
The UTA coaching staff has a familiar face on it this season as 2004 alumnus Derrick Obasohan is in his first year as a Player Development Coordinator.
 
A former UTA standout, professional player and Olympian, Obasohan scored 1,308 career points for the Mavericks from 2000-04 – which still ranks as the 7th-most in program history. Obasohan begins his coaching career after playing 14 years professionally in France, Spain and Turkey.
 
A former Olympian, Obasohan was the starting shooting guard for Nigeria at the 2012 London Games. He averaged 10.6 points and 3.2 rebounds over five Olympic contests, including a personal high of 18 points in the final Group A Preliminary Round matchup against France.
 
In 2001, Obasohan became first player in program history to be named the Southland Conference Freshman of the Year after averaging 8.8 points and 3.9 rebounds per game. He also garnered Southland Conference honors as a junior and senior.
 
As a senior in 2003-04, Obasohan helped guide UTA to its first-ever conference championship as the Mavs won the Southland Regular Season Title with an 11-5 record.
 
Among those other former Olympians who are on a D-I men's basketball staff:

Georgetown: Patrick Ewing | Head Coach
United States, 1984 (Los Angeles) & 1992 (Barcelona)
 
Virginia: Kirk Penney | Director of Player Development
New Zealand, 2000 (Sydney) & 2004 (Athens)
 
Monmouth: JR Reid | Assistant Coach
United States, 1988 (Seoul)
 
Memphis: Penny Hardaway | Head Coach
United States, 1996 (Atlanta)
 
Wake Forest: Danny Manning | Head Coach
United States, 1988 (Seoul)
 
Nevada: Steve Alford | Head Coach
United States, 1984 (Los Angeles)
 
POINTS IN A TWO-YEAR CAREER
After posting 507 points in his first season as a Mav in 2018-19, Warren is on pace to potentially establish the all-time program record for points in a two-year UTA career. Only two players in program history who have spent just two seasons with UTA have scored at least 1,000 points:
 
1) Marquez Haynes: 1,174 (2008-10)
2) Eddie Stallings: 1,007 (1967-69)
Warren Currently: 713
 
Warren needs to average 15.9 points over 31 regular-season games to reach 1,000 in his UTA career and join Haynes and Stallings as the only players to ever accomplish the feat in program history.
 
KEY RULE CHANGES
Among a plethora of major rule changes for men's college basketball in 2019-20 are the following noteworthy items:
 
1) Increase the 3-point line to FIBA distance: 22 feet and 1 ¾ inches.
2) Reset the shot clock to 20 seconds on an offensive rebound in the front court.
3) Permit the head coach to call live-ball timeouts during the last two minutes of a game.
4) Basket interference/goaltending can be reviewed in the last two minutes of a game.
 
GANG'S ALL (MOSTLY) HERE
UTA returns all five starters from last season (same starting lineup for the final six games in 2018-19), and the Mavs have four of their top-5 scorers back as well.
 
SINGLE-SEASON TOP-10 RECORDS
In Ogden's first season at the helm of the Mavericks in 2018-19, UTA secured several top-10 all-time single-season program marks:
 
1st) 3-Point Percentage Defense: .298 – Ranked 13th in the nation last year (1st: Houston, .279).
5th) Free Throw Percentage: .741
6th) Field Goal Percentage Defense: .423
7th) Points Per Game Allowed: 69.8
8th) Total Rebounds: 1,237
 
HEAD COACH CHRIS OGDEN
In his first season as a head coach in 2018-19, Ogden garnered the following noteworthy honors and awards:
 
Sun Belt Coach of the Year: Just the third UTA coach to ever win a conference Coach of the Year award, joining Bob LeGrand (1981, Southland Conference) and Scott Cross (2012, Southland Conference; 2017, Sun Belt Conference).
NABC District 24 Coach of the Year: Consists of all Sun Belt Conference members.
Hugh Durham Award Finalist: Presented annually to the nation's top mid-major coach.
Joe B. Hall Award Finalist: Given annually to the top first-year head coach in D-I.
 
THE ONLY ONE
David Azore had two games of 11+ defensive rebounds last year as a redshirt freshman: 13 at Texas State and 11 at Appalachian State. He is the first freshman in UTA history to secure multiple games of 11+ defensive rebounds. Those totals rank tied as the 5th- and 20th-most in single-game program history, with the all-time record being 14 held by a quartet of players.
 
DECADE OF SUCCESS
UTA's first season of basketball took place in 1959-60, and since that opening year the Mavs have improved significantly in each of their six decades. Below are the average amount of wins each decade:
 
1960s: 8.4
1970s: 9.2
1980s: 11.1
1990s: 13.0
2000s: 15.1
2010s: 19.5
 
The Mavs need at least 24 victories this year to average 20 wins per season this decade – by far the most in program history. UTA has posted seven 20-win seasons in its 60-year history, but five of those have come since 2007-08:
 
Year                Record
2016-17           27-9
2011-12           24-9
2015-16           24-11
2007-08           21-12
2017-18           21-13
1980-81           20-8
1990-91           20-9
 
SCORING MARGIN
UTA posted a -0.6 scoring margin last year, but still managed to secure a winning record at 17-16. It's the first time since 1999-00 that a UTA team has had a winning record (15-12) with a negative scoring margin (-2.1).
 
Over the last 12 years, UTA has finished with a positive scoring margin 10 times; in the first 48 years of the program, that occurred just eight times.
 
MULTI-CULTURAL
UTA has players from five different foreign countries on the 2019-20 roster – a total which surpasses the amount of different states (four) represented on the team. The Mavs' multi-cultural roster features players from Belgium, Bahamas, Congo, France and Trinidad & Tobago; states: Indiana, Florida, Texas and Washington.
 
NBA ACADEMY AFRICA
One of those foreign players for UTA is sophomore Patrick Mwamba, who is a product of the NBA Academy Africa.
 
NBA Academies, a network of elite basketball training centers around the world, include educational development for top male and female prospects from outside the U.S. and mark the NBA's signature elite player development initiative. The initiative exposes elite prospects to NBA-level coaching, facilities and competition and provides a global framework for them to maximize their success.
 
Mwamba is one of 12 male NBA Academies graduates who are attending, or have committed to, D-I schools, and he is just one of two NBA Academy Africa products:

• Oumar Ballo (NBA Latin America Academy; Mali; Gonzaga)
• Francisco Caffaro (NBA Global Academy; Argentina; Virginia)
• Hunter Clarke (NBA Global Academy; Australia; Montana)
• Alex Ducas (NBA Global Academy; Australia; St. Mary's)
• Francisco Farabello (NBA Academy Latin America; Argentina; TCU)
• Anyang Garang (NBA Global Academy; Uganda; Oklahoma)
• Timothy Ighoefe (NBA Academy Africa; Nigeria; Georgetown)
• Hyunjung Lee (NBA Global Academy; South Korea; Davidson)
• Patrick Mwamba (NBA Academy Africa; Congo; UT Arlington)
• Jermaine Miranda Perez (NBA Academy Latin America; Puerto Rico; Hofstra)
• Jonathan Tchatchoua (NBA Global Academy; Cameroon; Baylor)
• Kurt-Curry Wegscheider (NBA Academy Africa; Central Africa Republic; New Mexico)

 
FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS
For the first time in program history, UTA will have a regular season home game broadcast on national television as the Mavericks' 2019-20 finale at the College Park Center against rival Texas State will be shown live on ESPN2. To accommodate the move to ESPN2, the game will now take place on Friday, Feb. 28, at 8 p.m. It was originally scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 29, at 5 p.m.
 
During UTA's run to the NIT quarterfinals in 2017, the Mavericks had a pair of those games at the CPC air nationally on ESPNU, but this will be the first time a regular-season game at the CPC will be broadcast to the country. UTA's version of Friday Night Lights will take on even more significance as – in addition to airing on ESPN2 – the game will serve as Senior Night as it will be the final home regular-season contest of the year.
 
2018-19 RETWEETS
1) UTA was the only Sun Belt team which didn't have a single player average at least 30 minutes per game last year (Warren: 29.8).
2) In conference games, UTA led the SBC in field-goal percentage defense (.409), rebounds per game (38.4) and rebound margin (+3.8); the Mavs finished 2nd in points per game allowed (69), free throw percentage (.752), scoring margin (+4.1) and assists per game (14.6).
3) The Mavs secured a program-best 6-3 road SBC record; the previous best in six seasons as a member of the Sun Belt was 5-4 in 2016-17.
4) UTA played two double-overtime games last season – both in February – and won each: 84-77 at Texas State and 91-86 versus ULM.
5) It's just the third time in program history the Mavs have played multiple double-overtime games in the same season and only the second time ever they've occurred in the same month (January, 1980).
6) Overall, UTA has won its last five overtime games dating back to an 88-85 setback at South Alabama on Jan. 16, 2016.
 
TALE OF THE TAPE
According to KenPom, UTA was the smallest team in the country last year, averaging just 74.5 inches (6-foot-2). Despite that, the Mavs led the Sun Belt in league games with 38.4 rebounds per contest and rebound margin at +3.8.
 
MAVS IN THE PROS
On Dec. 12, former UTA standout Kevin Hervey signed a two-way contract with the Oklahoma City Thunder. The program's all-time leading rebounder (921) and 2nd-leading scorer (1,783) became the first Maverick to play in an NBA game on Dec. 26 versus the Memphis Grizzlies.
 
An Arlington native, Hervey has spent the past season and a half with the Oklahoma City Blue of the NBA G League after being drafted by the Thunder with the 57th pick in 2018.
 
Hervey was the 4th all-time UTA player selected in the draft and the first since the NBA reduced the number of rounds to just two in 1989. Paul Renfro became UTA's first-ever draft pick when he was taken in the 9th round (181st overall) by the Utah Jazz in 1980. Two Mavericks were selected in 1982 – both by the Dallas Mavericks. Ralph McPherson was selected in the 9th round (188th) and Albert Culton picked in the 10th round (209th).
 
He was one of three graduating seniors in 2018 who signed a contract and are playing professionally, joining Erick Neal in Turkey with Fethiye and Johnny Hamilton also in Turkey with Darussafaka.
 
OTHER FORMER MAVS CURRENTLY PLAYING PROFESSIONALLY
Jorge Bilbao – Caceres Patrimonio de la Humanidad (Spain)
Reger Dowell – Beroe (Bulgaria)
Brandon Edwards – Elitzur Yavne (Israel)
Karol Gruszecki – Polski Cukier Torun (Poland)
Julian Harris – Raleigh Firebirds (North Carolina)
Jalen Jones – Sao Paulo FC (Brazil)
LaMarcus Reed – JP-Auto JKSE (Hungary)
Anthony Walker – Beroe (Bulgaria)
 
NEXT UP
UTA will remain at home as the Mavs continue their league-opening homestand with a tilt against Appalachian State on Thursday, Jan. 9, at 7 p.m.
 
PURCHASE TICKETS
Season tickets start as low as $99, and tickets for all home games are available by visiting UTATickets.com, calling the UTA Box Office at (817) 272-9595 or by stopping by the College Park Center during regular business hours.
 
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