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BOWLING GREEN, Ky. -- WKU seeks its first road win of the season and looks to end a slide of three losses in the last four games Saturday night at 7:00 (CT) at North Texas in the second game of a two-week, 3,400-mile Conference USA road trip.
WKU has dropped six-straight road contests dating back to an 88-84 overtime win at Charlotte on March 5, 2015. The Hilltoppers held a 13-point second-half lead Thursday night at Rice, but the Owls used a 21-3 run to end the game and pick up the 83-73 win.
With his 15th of 20 first-half points Thursday night, Aaron Cosby scored his 1,000th career point for his time at Seton Hall, Illinois and WKU.
North Texas, who was picked to finish eighth in the C-USA preseason poll, two spots behind WKU, returns one starter and five letterwinners from a 14-17 squad a season ago that finished 8-10 and tied for seventh in league play. WKU assistant coach Shawn Forrest spent the 2008-09 through 2011-12 seasons as an assistant coach for the Mean Green.
After Saturday's game, WKU heads to Old Dominion Thursday night and Charlotte next Saturday evening, before returning home to face UAB and Middle Tennessee on Jan. 28 and Jan. 30.
GAME 18
WKU (9-8, 1-3 C-USA) at North Texas (7-10, 2-2 C-USA)
January 16, 2016 | 7:00 PM (CT)
Denton, Texas | The Super Pit (10,500)
QUICK SHOTS
- WKU leads the all-time series with North Texas 16-5 and has won four-straight matchups dating back to a Jan. 12, 2012 loss in Denton, including a 74-70 win in the 2012 Sun Belt Conference Tournament championship game in Hot Springs, Ark.
- WKU begins Conference USA play with five of its first seven games on the road, which matches 2004-05 Sun Belt Conference action for its most road games to start league play.
- WKU is shooting 47.2 percent as a team, good for 47th in the nation, compared to 43.5 at the end of last year and 41.4 the season prior.
- WKU ranks 41st in the nation in blocked shots per game (5.1), after being tied for 189th in the NCAA in blocks per game in 2014-15 (3.3).
- At his current pace, Justin Johnson would be the first Hilltopper to average 17 points and 8 rebounds in a season since Greg Jackson in 1978-79.
- Justin Johnson has scored in double figures in 14 of the last 15 games.
- Justin Johnson is second in Conference USA and seventh in the nation in field goal percentage (.657).
- Justin Johnson has five double-doubles for his career, all this season, and George Fant, who finished his Hilltopper career with 22 double-doubles, had six through his sophomore season.
- Ben Lawson ranks 10th in the nation in blocked shots per game (2.8) and 11th in total blocks (48), and he has blocked at least one shot in 21 of the last 22 games and at least three shots in 13 of the last 19 games.
- Ben Lawson has 110 blocked shots in 61 career games, which is tied for seventh in WKU history with Darnell Mee (1991-93), and he is 14 blocks shy of tying George Fant (2012-15) for sixth at 124.
- Ben Lawson has blocked 48 shots on the season, of WKU's 87 as a team, and the Hilltoppers have had their shots swatted by the opponent a total of 42 times this year.
- Chris McNeal is fourth in the nation among freshmen in assist-to-turnover ratio (2.4).
- Anton Waters has 30 rebounds and 25 points in the last five games after having 31 rebounds and 20 points in his first 11 games of the season.
- Nigel Snipes' 167 total points are approaching his three-year career total entering this season of 193.
- WKU's leading returning scorer from last season, redshirt-junior Chris Harrison-Docks, is 259 points away from becoming the 49th player in Hilltopper Basketball history to score 1,000 career points.
- WKU has won 27 of its last 32 home contests, and the Hilltoppers are 50-13 at E.A. Diddle Arena under head coach Ray Harper (.794) and 34-8 over the last three seasons.
BROADCAST
Listen: Hilltopper IMG Sports Network (WKLX 100.7 FM flagship), TuneIn Radio (free) (Randy Lee, pxp | Hal Schmitt, analysis)
Watch: Conference USA Digital Network
Live Stats: MeanGreenSports.com (free)
