Saturday, January 12, 2013
UALR men vs.
Fla. International WHEN 3:30 p.m.
WHERE Jack Stephens Center, Little Rock RECORDS UALR 10-8, 4-3 Sun Belt Conference; Florida International 8-7, 3-3 SERIES UALR leads 16-8 RADIO KHLR-FM, 106.7, in Little Rock TV Comcast Sports Southeast INTERNET ualrtrojans.com, ESPN3.comCHALK TALK FIU’s Tymell Murphy has emerged as one of the top newcomers in the Sun Belt Conference. The transfer from Brooklyn Academy is fifth in the league in scoring (15.1 points per game) and sixth in rebounding (7.7). He scored all 12 of his points and had four rebounds in the final 5:12 of Saturday’s 66-64 victory at Arkansas State.
Fla. International WHEN 1 p.m.
WHERE Jack Stephens Center, Little Rock RECORDS UALR: 11-4, 4-3 Sun Belt Conference; Florida International 9-6, 3-3 SERIES FIU leads 15-8 RADIO KARN-AM, 920, in Little Rock TV Comcast Sports Southeast INTERNET ualrathletics.com, ESPN3.comCHALK TALK UALR’s Taylor Gault and Florida International’s Jerica Coley are the only Division I players to rank among the top 100 in blocks who are shorter than 6-0. Coley has 27 blocks, the second-most in the Sun Belt, and Gault is third with 25.
RECORDS ASU: 10-6, 4-3 Sun Belt Conference;
Louisiana-Lafayette: 6-12, 2-5 SERIES ULL leads 43-23 RADIO KFIN-FM, 107.9, in Jonesboro; KKSPFM, 93.3, in Little Rock INTERNET astateredwolves.comCHALK TALK ASU had its four-game winning streak end with a home loss to Florida International on Thursday night. The Red Wolves trailed by seven with 45 seconds left before rallying to pull within two in a 66-64 loss. ... Louisiana-Lafayette has lost its past three games, and its next three opponents have a combined 6-13 Sun Belt record.
RECORDS ASU: 7-9, 4-3 Sun Belt Conference;
Louisiana-Lafayette 7-9, 1-6 SERIES ASU leads 44-12 RADIO KNEA-FM, 95.3, in Jonesboro; KNEAAM, 970, in Jonesboro INTERNET astateredwolves.comor more points in 22 consecutive games before Wednesday’s victory over Florida International, when she was held to a seasonlow 4 points on 2-of-4 shooting. ASU shot a season-best 59.6 percent from the floor in a 77-53 victory over Louisiana-Lafayette on Dec. 22. The Red Wolves are 15-4 all-time in Lafayette, with a 16.8-point average margin of victory.
NW (La.) State WHEN 4 p.m.
WHERE Farris Center, Conway RECORDS Central Arkansas 5-8, 0-3 Southland Conference; Northwestern (La.) State 9-5, 3-1 SERIES Northwestern (La.) State leads 13-2 RADIO KUCA-FM, 91.3, in Conway INTERNET ucasports.comCHALK TALK Central Arkansas will have to find a way to stop the Southland Conference’s top scoring team in Northwestern (La.) State, which is averaging 83.1 points per game. The Bears have allowed a league-worst 78.1 points per game and are winless so far in Southland play.
Northwestern State entered this week third in the nation in scoring offense.
NW (La.) State WHEN 2 p.m.
WHERE Farris Center, Conway RECORDS Central Arkansas 10-4, 3-0 Southland Conference; Northwestern (La.) State 5-9, 1-3 SERIES Tied 7-7 RADIO KUCA-FM, 91.3, in Conway INTERNET ucasports.com; ucagameday.comCHALK TALK First-year Northwestern (La.) State co-Coaches Brooke and Scott Stoehr have Arkansas ties. Brooke Stoehr (formerly Brooke Lassiter) is a 1998 graduate of Hamburg High School and was on Joe Foley’s staff at UALR in 2003-2005. Scott Stoehr also was on Foley’s staff in 2004-2005.
Southern’s Malcolm Miller was the league’s player of the week after coming off the bench to score 28 points in Tuesday’s victory over Jackson State. He leads the team in scoring with an average of 16.1 points per game.
RECORDS UAPB: 5-8, 1-2 SWAC; Southern: 4-11, 3-1CHALK TALK UAPB, which won one game in each of the past two season, leads the SWAC in scoring offense (60.8 ppg) and free-throw percentage (74.4 percent) and is third in rebounding (39.2 per game) in Coach Nate Kilbert’s first season.
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