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INSIDE SPORTS
Judge sentences Cuban
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Win brought UNT's hopes back to life
North Texas
junior tight
end Jarrod
Lynn (39)
celebrates
after a touch-
down against
Florida Atlan-
tic on Satur-
day at Apo-
gee Stadium.
David Minton/
DRC
Next, Mean Green face
a hungry UTEP team
By Brett Vito
Staff Writer
bvito @ dentonrc. com
Dan McCamey thought back to his
days as an assistant coach this week
while trying to put in-
to perspective what
North Texas’ slump-
busting win over Flor-
ida Atlantic last week
meant to his team.
Lee Corso, who is
better known today
for his larger-than-life McCarne
personality on ESPN’s
College GameDay, was the head coach
at Indiana at the time and had his own
coach’s show.
The opening of a particular episode
that followed a blowout loss to Nebras-
North Texas football
ka is one McCamey will never forget
and could relate to after what UNT ex-
perienced the last few weeks.
“The camera came on and Lee was
laying in a coffin,” McCamey said. “He
flipped the lid open, sat up at the begin-
ning of the show and said, ‘We aren’t
dead yet.’ I kind of felt that way going
into the game the other day.”
UNT had lost four straight heading
into its game against FAU and needed
to win four straight to become bowl-eli-
gible at 6-6. The Mean Green (3-6,1-4)
still have a long way to go, even after a
31-10 win over the Owls, but the possi-
bility of a late run remains.
That means a whole lot to UNT’s
players, who are still holding out hope
that they can win their last three games,
starting with Saturday’s late-night
See UNT on 3B
Lady
Broncos
ignite
for win
Catlin scores with
2 seconds on clock
to beat Keller Central
By Patrick Hayslip
Staff Writer
phayslip @ dentonrc. com
The Denton Lady Broncos opened
their season Monday at home against
Keller Central, motivating themselves
with the theme “set yourself on fire.”
High school basketball
Girls: Denton 56, Keller Central 54
Falling behind at halftime, the Lady
Broncos fit up in the second half, out-
scoring the Lady Chargers in each of the
final two quarters — but they still need-
ed one last play to secure their first vic-
tory of the season.
With Keller Central tying the game
at 54-all in the final minute, the Lady
Broncos got the go-ahead jumper from
Jada Catlin with just two seconds re-
maining to secure a 56-54 win.
New head coach Erin Taylor called
the play for guard Sam Simmons, but
the Lady Chargers defended her well,
which forced Catlin to make a play.
After the ball was deflected several
times by Keller defenders’ hands, Catlin
corralled it, dribbled around the top
right of the three-point arc and swished
in a fading shot just inside the arc.
“Jada stepped up huge,” Taylor said.
“I just can’t sing her praises enough.
[She] fought back from that fourth
foul, [coming] back in and out offen-
sively and defensively as well as having
the presence of mind to hit the big shot.
She saw the open shot, and the thing we
always preach is clock management.
The execution wasn’t 100 percent, but
they still had the presence of mind to
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DMN file photos
Baylor head coach Art Briles, left, and TCU head coach Gary Patterson, right, have their teams as the clear front-runners if the Big 12 is going to grab
one of the four spots in the new college football playoff. TCU is currently ranked fifth in the Associated Press poll while Baylor is sixth.
Battle at the top
TCU, Baylor are Big
12’s front-runners
for 4-team playoff
By Stephen Hawkins
Associated Press
West Virginia coach Dana Holgor-
sen starting preparing for Baylor
when the Bears were coming off a wild
comeback win over TCU.
Two weeks after that, he flipped the
script and examined that game while
preppinghis Mountaineers to play the
Homed Frogs.
Which one is better?
“I’d hate to have to choose between
them, so good luck to the [playoff]
committee,” Holgorsen said Monday.
We’ve played a lot of good football
College football
Big 12
teams, and those two are as good as
I’ve seen. If they continue to win in the
Big 12 and finish 11-1, then they should
be in the top four. That’s for certain.”
No. 5 TCU and No. 6 Baylor (both
8-1 overall, 5-1 Big 12) are the clear
front-runners if the Big 12 is going to
grab one of the spots in the new four-
team playoff.
Oklahoma is the only team that has
played the Frogs, Bears and No. 13
Kansas State (7-2, 5-1), losing to all of
the Big 12 co-leaders. The Wildcats are
likely out of playoff contention with
two losses overall after a 41-20 loss at
TCU on Saturday.
Asked on the weekly Big 12 coaches
teleconference which of those three
teams was the best, Sooners coach
Bob Stoops said he wouldn’t offer an
opinion on that. But he made refer-
ence to that Oct. 11 game in which
TCU led by 21 points in the fourth
quarter only to see Baylor rally for a
61-58 win on the final play.
“As you look at right now, Baylor
and TCU obviously are sitting at the
top and they had a heck of a game that
went down to the last seconds,” Stoops
said. “Again, that’s for everyone else to
decide.”
Conference champions will be
weighed heavily by the 12-member
playoff selection committee for its fi-
nal rankings Dec. 7. The Big 12 is the
only power-five league without a
championship game, but is the only
one that plays a round-robin schedule.
If Baylor and TCU both finish 11-1,
the Bears would have the head-to-
See BIG 12 on 4B
Mean Green pull away in OT to narrowly beat OCU
By Brett Vito
Staff Writer
bvito @ dentonrc.com
North Texas was on the verge of hit-
ting a low it hadn’t seen in well over a
decade when Jordan Williams pulled
the Mean Green together in the closing
moments of its exhibition game against
Oklahoma City on Monday night.
“I brought the guys together and
told them not to give up,” Williams said.
“I told them we are going to win this
game.”
The Mean Green managed, but just
barely.
Armani Flannigan chased down hit
own miss and tipped it in with two sec-
onds left to send the game into over-
North Texas basketball
UNT 106, Oklahoma City 100
time, when the Mean Green pulled
away for a 106-100 win and avoided
what would have been a tough loss to
the Stars, a member of the NAIA Soon-
er Athletic Conference.
UNT has not lost an exhibition
game since at least the 2000-01 season.
“It’s basketball,” UNT coach Tony
Benford said. “There are going to be
close games. It’s not scary. That is the
way the game is some times. You have
new guys. That happens. It’s part of it. I
am proud of these guys resiliency in
coming back.”
UNT trailed 86-77 with just 2:40
left before Williams hit four straight
free throws and then a 3-pointer.
Flannigan hit a layup with 1:04 left
to put UNT up one at before Tharone
Chilton hit two free throws with 33.7
seconds remaining to give OCU an 89-
88 edge.
After Williams missed a 3, Chilton
went back to the line and hit one of two
leaving the door open for UNT, which
cashed in with Flannigan’s tip.
“These guys showed a lot of resil-
ience and toughness getting back into
the game,” Benford said. “We were
down eight and got some stops to get it
into overtime.”
Jeremy Combs scored UNT’s first
five points in overtime and the Mean
Green cruised from there on a big night
for the freshman, who finished with a
double-double that included 23 points
and 11 rebounds. Williams led UNT
with 27.
“It felt good to get out there and fi-
nally play,” Combs said. “I just listened
to the coaching staff and tried to exe-
cute.”
Chilton led OCU with 24, while R. J.
McGhee added 17 on a night UNT
struggled to contain the Stars while
playing shorthanded.
UNT was without guards T. J. Taylor
and DeAndre Harris due to injury. Red-
shirt freshman Greg Wesley was sus-
pended due to a violation of team rules.
The Mean Green are also waiting on
a ruling on the eligibility status of Texas
A&M transfer J-Mychal Reese. Benford
said that ruling might not come until
next week.
UNT appeared as if it would roll past
OCU even without those players when
it went on a 12-1 early in the first half
and grabbed a 22-12 lead.
The Mean Green couldn’t build on
the momentum it established early and
saw the Stars close the half by scoring
their last eight points from the line and
tie the game at 47-47.
UNT was in a dogfight the rest of the
way.
Benford said after the game that he
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