BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) — Anthony Adger had 15 points as Florida Atlantic defeated North Texas 57-47 on Thursday night.

Karlis Silins had 14 points for Florida Atlantic (15-11, 6-7 Conference USA). Xavian Stapleton added 12 points.

Neither team was able to get much going offensively in ...

DENTON, Texas (AP) — Roosevelt Smart and Umoja Gibson combined to score 39 points as North Texas ran away from Marshall in the second half to post its 20th win of the season, a 78-51 victory on Thursday night.

The victory keeps the Mean Green a half-game back of Conference USA leader Old ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Ryan Woolridge stole the ball and flew for a fast-break layup to spark a 6-2 finish and North Texas turned back Charlotte 73-66 Saturday.

Umoja Gibson and Roosevelt Smart led North Texas with 19 points apiece, Gibson draining five 3-pointers and Smart three. ...

DENTON, Texas (AP) — Roosevelt Smart scored 16 points, Michael Miller added 15 and North Texas beat Middle Tennessee 70-53 on Saturday.

The Mean Green (18-3, 6-2 Conference USA) entered the contest with their best winning percentage in program history 20 games in to a season.

Ryan ...

DENTON, Texas (AP) — Zack Bryant scored 17 points, Makhtar Gueye added nine points and a career-high tying 13 rebounds, and UAB beat North Texas 52-49 Thursday night to snap the Mean Green’s 14-game home win streak.

Bryant had five points in a 13-2 run that was capped by Jalen’s Perry’s ...

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Jhivvan Jackson scored 17 points including the game-winner with 1.6 seconds left and UTSA beat North Texas 76-74 in a game Saturday between Conference USA unbeatens.

Jackson gave a North Texas defender a ball fake then twisted around and put up a shot a few steps inside ...

HOUSTON (AP) — Ryan Woolridge scored 24 points, leading four into double figures and North Texas walloped Rice 103-87 on Saturday to open Conference USA play in emphatic fashion.

Woolridge made 10 of 16 shots, grabbed 12 rebounds and had six assists for Mean Green (13-1, 1-0). Zachary ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Led by 14 points each from Jorden Duffy and Roosevelt Smart, North Texas never trailed Tuesday night in beating New Mexico 74-65.

The Mean Green (11-1) beat the Lobos (5-5) at their own game, slicing through the press and driving the lane at will to consistently ...

DENTON, Texas (AP) — Umoja Gibson scored 16 points to lead four players in double figures as North Texas held on to beat Saint Peter’s 75-66 in the Wolfpack Classic campus game on Saturday to go 8-0 for the first time in almost a century.

The Mean Green last started the season 8-0 in 1921 ...

DENTON, Texas (AP) — Roosevelt Smart has led North Texas all season, so it was no surprise that he was the most valuable player in the deciding Game 3 of the College Basketball Invitational finals.

Smart, a sophomore who set UNT records for points and 3-point field goals this season, ...

DENTON, Texas (AP) — Roosevelt Smart scored 20 points, Jorden Duffy added 19 and North Texas used a dominant first half to rout Jacksonville State 90-68 in the CBI semifinals Wednesday night.

The Mean Green (18-17), who play the winner of Thursday’s game between Campbell and San Francisco ...

DENTON, Texas (AP) — Matt Willms dunked it with three seconds left to lift UTEP over North Texas 68-66 on Saturday, securing a spot for the Miners in the Conference USA Tournament.

Omega Harris had 18 points and seven rebounds to lead the Miners (11-19, 6-12). Isiah Osborne added 17 points ...

DENTON, Texas (AP) — Roosevelt Smart tossed in 22 points and DJ Draper came off the bench to score 18 on 6-of-7 shooting from 3-point range to guide North Texas to an 80-62 victory over UT-San Antonio on Thursday night.

The loss kept UT-San Antonio (17-13, 10-7) from pulling into a ...

MIAMI (AP) — Eric Lockett made the first of two free-throw attempts with 6.8 seconds left to give Florida International a 69-68 victory over North Texas on Thursday night.

Ryan Woolridge grabbed the defensive rebound from Lockett’s second shot at the line, but then missed a layup to end ...

DENTON, Texas (AP) — Taveion Hollingsworth tossed in 30 points and Darius Thompson scored nine of his 28 points in overtime to lift Western Kentucky to a 102-94 victory over North Texas on Thursday night.

Hollingsworth hit all 14 of his free throws and added seven rebounds for the ...

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (AP) — Nick King matched his career-high with 32 points, tying the school record with his fourth 30-point game this season, and Middle Tennessee held off North Texas 79-73 to win its seventh straight on Saturday.

Giddy Potts added 15 points, David Simmons 11 and Antwain ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Roosevelt Smart had 18 points and eight rebounds and DJ Draper hit 4 of 7 from 3-point range and finished with 16 points to help North Texas beat UAB 67-60 on Thursday night for its fourth win in a row.

A.J. Lawson added 12 points and Ryan Woolridge 11 for North ...

DENTON, Texas (AP) — Roosevelt Smart had 28 points and DJ Draper scored 10 of his 12 points in the final five minutes to help North Texas rally for a 74-70 win over Rice on Saturday.

Allante Holston scored 13 points on 5-of-7 shooting for North Texas (13-10, 6-4 Conference USA), which has ...

DENTON, Texas (AP) — DJ Draper drilled a 3-pointer with three seconds left in overtime to lift North Texas to a 69-67 win over Florida International Saturday to keep the Mean Green in the hunt for a first-round bye in the Conference USA tournament.

Now with back-to-back wins over Florida ...

DENTON, Texas (AP) — A.J. Lawson and Zachary Simmons combined to score 22 of their 28 points in the second half and North Texas held on for a 59-53 win over Florida Atlantic on Thursday night.

Lawson had 18 points, 14 after halftime, and Simmons finished with 10 points and a career-high ...

HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) — Tyree Griffin scored a career-high 29 points with five assists and Cortez Edwards had 19 points and 10 rebounds for his second straight double-double as Southern Miss put away North Texas 85-78 Saturday, winning its second straight.

Roosevelt Smart dropped in a ...

HOUSTON (AP) — Roosevelt Smart knocked down a school record nine 3-pointers and posted a career-high 39 points as North Texas shot past Rice, 85-78 in a Conference USA battle Saturday.

Smart hit a pair of treys in the first half and the Mean Green trailed by two, 37-35 at ...

DENTON, Texas (AP) — Trey Porter scored a career-high 23 points and B.J. Stith made all 10 of his free throws, the last two with three seconds left, and Old Dominion held off North Texas 63-60 on Saturday night for the Monarchs’ eighth-straight win.

Porter, who had a career-high 19 points ...

DENTON, Texas (AP) — Milos Supica snared an offensive rebound with two seconds left and scored on a layup to allow Charlotte to escape North Texas with a 70-68 win on Thursday night.

North Texas won its first two Conference USA games while the 49ers are in the middle of a three-game road ...

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Roosevelt Smart scored 22 points, Ryan Woolridge added 18 more and North Texas held on to earn a 72-71 win at Texas-San Antonio and pick up its second Conference USA victory to start the season Saturday night.

The Mean Green (9-6) already surpassed their win total from ...

EL PASO, Texas (AP) — Roosevelt Smart scored 29 — including North Texas’ last 15 points — to send the Mean Green past UTEP 63-62 Thursday night in a Conference USA opener for both teams.

Smart and UTEP’s Keith Frazier got into a shootout late when Frazier made a 3 to tie it at 56 with 2:25 ...

DENTON, Texas (AP) — Roosevelt Smart and Ryan Woolridge scored 15 points apiece and North Texas rolled to an 85-47 victory over McNeese on Saturday night.

Smart was 5 of 10 from the floor and made three 3-pointers, and Woolridge was 5-of-7 shooting from the field. Zachary Simmons and Tope ...

DENTON, Texas (AP) — Roosevelt Smart had 22 points, including five in the final minute of overtime, and nine rebounds to help North Texas beat Indiana State 79-76 on Wednesday night.

A.J. Lawson and Shane Temara scored 18 points apiece and Zachary Simmons added 10 for UNT (5-5). Lawson hit ...

DENTON, Texas (AP) — Roosevelt Smart scored 23 points, including 8-for-8 shooting from the line, and North Texas hung on Monday night for an 82-77 win over Grambling.

A.J. Lawson added 12 points, Zachary Simmons and Ryan Woolridge added 11 points apiece and Jorden Duffy had 10 for North ...

ATLANTA (AP) — Point guard Jose Alvarado scored 12 of his 19 points in the first half Friday to lead Georgia Tech to a 63-49 win over North Texas and that wasn’t a big surprise, but when fellow freshman Curtis Haywood II dropped 12 of his 15 in the second half, the Yellow Jackets found ...

DENTON, Texas (AP) — Roosevelt Smart scored a career-high 26 points with six 3-pointers and North Texas never trailed in defeating Division II Rogers State 86-74 on Wednesday night.

A.J. Lawson scored 17 points with eight rebounds and four assists, Ryan Woolridge added 11 points and eight ...

DENTON, Texas (AP) — Roosevelt Smart had 22 points to lead North Texas to a 90-78 win over Bethune-Cookman on Thursday night.

Smart hit 5 of 7 from the floor and made 11 of 13 free throw attempts. A.J. Lawson added 19 points while grabbing seven rebounds and Ryan Woolridge chipped in 18 ...