Stephenville, Texas – The A&M-Commerce men's basketball team will tipoff against their second ranked opponent on the road this season with a road trip to No. 22 Tarleton State Saturday with game time scheduled for 7 p.m.
Fast-break Points About A&M-Commerce- A&M-Commerce enters the game at 13-6 overall and 2-4 in the LSC ... The Lions ended a four-game losing streak with a 98-71 win over Arlington Baptist in their last game ... The streak started with losses to Cameron, Midwestern, West Texas A&M and at Eastern New Mexico, 70-62, in their last game.
- The Lions had a nine-game winning streak that was the longest since a nine-game streak in 2004-05 ... The Lions are 7-0 at home.
- A&M-Commerce has six wins over top 25 teams in the last three years after knocking off No. 4 Angelo State.
- The Lions defeated Southwestern College 111-60 marking the program's 10th 50-point margin of victory ... It was the 11th highest margin of victory in the NCAA DII on the season ... The last time A&M-Commerce won by 50 or more points was in 2005-06 when the Lions defeated Paul Quinn by 51 points, 104-53 ... The largest margin of victory for the Lions came in 1986-87 when then East Texas topped Southwestern Assemblies of God by 70 points, 128-58.
- A&M-Commerce is 8-3 in The Field House.
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Anthony Adams was named the LSC Offensive Player of the Week on January 16 highlighted by a 27-point game in the Lions 85-79 win over Harding on December 10..
- The Lions are fourth in the NCAA in defensive rebounds per game at 31.83, fifth in blocked shots per game with 5.6, sixth in rebounding margin at +9.2, seventh in total assists with 269and eight in total blocked shots with 100
- The Lions had a record breaking 132-83 win over Huston-Tilloston ... The Lions set the school record for points in single-game in the win.
- White and Pleasant lead the team-high with three double-doubles,
Bryant Crowder has two double-doubles and
Craig Fofang has one double-double ... Pleasant picked up a double-double in the Lions loss to MIdwestern State.
- A&M-Commerce is coached by
Sam Walker in his 16th season at the helm of the Lions program ... Walker is the program's all-time leader in wins with 263.
A&M-Commerce and Tarleton State by the NumbersA&M-Commerce Category Tarleton State
85.9 Points per game 80.7
+10.7 Scoring margin +16.9
49.0 percent Field goal percentage 47.1 percent
36.7 percent 3-pt FG percentage 29.5 percent
64.5 percent Free throw percentage 68.5 percent
45.3 Rebounds per game 41.9
+9.2 Rebounding margin +10.2
15.3 Assists per game 14.8
13.6 Turnovers per game 14.1
-1.9 Turnover margin +2.9
6.4 Steals per game 8.3
5.8 Blocks per game 4.6
A&M-Commerce vs. Tarleton State: The Series- The Lions and Texans have met 63 times prior to Saturday's meeting with TSU holding a slight advantage in the series 33-30 ... The Lions hold a 19-17 advantage in LSC games.
- Tarleton State has won 11 of the last 13 meetings including two of the three games in 2013-14 and the first two games in 2014-15 before the Lions handed the Texans a 53-51 win in the LSC Tournament semifinals.
- The first meeting in 2014-15 meeting was the first time the two teams have met as ranked opponents and only the second time both have been ranked at the same time after both were ranked on December 3, 2013.
About the Texans-EJ Reed leads four Texans averaging 18.5 points per game ... Reed is shooting 62.4 percent from the floor and leads the Texans averaging 8.1 rebounds per game... Charles Hill follows averaging 14.3 points per game, while Michael Hardge averages 11.5 points per game.
- TSU will be without Malcolm Hamilton who averages 10.7 points per game and 6.7 rebounds per game.
- Tarleton State is 13-1 at home this season at 3-0 in LSC home games.
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