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LIVINGSTON, Ala.
– The University of West Alabama men’s basketball team
will start the second half of the Gulf South Conference
season on Saturday, Feb. 7, traveling to Huntsville to
face the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Tip off
is set for 7 p.m. at UAH’s Spragins Hall. The GSC tilt
will be carried by WZNJ 106.5 FM along with live stats
at athletics.uwa.edu.
The Tigers moved to
10-11 on the season with a rout of Southeastern Bible
College, 106-71, on Wednesday to close out the
non-conference slate. UWA has strung together
back-to-back wins after knocking off Montevallo in its
last GSC contest. UAH dropped a 79-76 decision to UM on
Thursday night. The setback by the Chargers dropped
them into a tie with North Alabama for GSC East
supremacy with identical league marks at 5-2. UWA looks
to snap a five-game losing skid to its cross-state
nemesis. UAH topped the Red and White earlier this
season, 86-77, at Pruitt Hall.
UWA looks to
continue its consistent play on both ends of the floor.
In the past two outings, the Tigers averaged 88 points
per contest and connected on 54 percent from the field,
including 41 percent shooting from behind the
three-point stripe. UWA’s opposition was held to 38
percent shooting, connecting on just 31 shots combined
in the two affairs.
Junior Jason
Swanson leads the UWA offensive charge, averaging 14
points per contest and a team-best 8.1 rebounds per
game. The Troy, Ala.-native has strung together 13
straight games with double digit scoring. Swanson
recorded his seventh double-double of the season and
fifth in the last six games with a 17 point, 11 rebound
effort against SEBC. Junior guard Chris Davis sparked
UWA’s three-point shooting attack in the past two games,
drilling 5-of-8 from behind the arc.
A win over UAH
would give UWA head coach Eddie McCarter his 200th-career
win. McCarter, a native of Birmingham, Ala., would
become the seventh current GSC coach to reach the 200
career wins plateau. McCarter tallied 179 wins in 14
seasons at the University of Texas at Arlington.
Following Saturday’s GSC East battle,
the Tigers return home on Thursday, Feb. 12, against
West Georgia. |
